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I would think one acquires skill through experience.
You can read all the safety/skill books you want.
With out application/experience it may as well be a comic book.
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I would think one acquires skill through experience.
You can read all the safety/skill books you want.
With out application/experience it may as well be a comic book.
Yes, it's very fast, and completely different from the Glory Road (31A) that intersects it at New Denver. You have a complete change of riding style, transitioning between the two.
The Glory Road has one of the trickiest corners I have ever seen: a decreasing radius right hander, followed by a short straight, and then a shallow left hander across a wooden decked bridge. But it's marked with a 40 km sign.
When I used to use my speedometer in cornering, I found some roads where doubling the advisory speed could be fairly easily done.
The only time I look down at my speedo is when I see a cop following me or 'gunning' me from the side of the road.
Useless information when ya get down to it.
Me knowing how fast I'm going won't allow me to take or lose a corner.
Experience will.
I was a ski racer and it involves many of the same physics as motorcycle riding or racing. When I raced I raced, when I practiced I focused on skills. The practice made me a capable racer. Don't recall reading too many books ; I did have quite a lot of coaching and became a coach and teacher myself. The experience I had from practice was how I was able to "turn it on" when race day arrived.I would think one acquires skill through experience.
You can read all the safety/skill books you want.
With out application/experience it may as well be a comic book.
I was a ski racer and it involves many of the same physics as motorcycle riding or racing. When I raced I raced, when I practiced I focused on skills. The practice made me a capable racer. Don't recall reading too many books ; I did have quite a lot of coaching and became a coach and teacher myself. The experience I had from practice was how I was able to "turn it on" when race day arrived.
This is a serious question: "how Do You determine a fun but safe appropriate entry speed for the curves on those twisty two lane back roads?" You know the ones: there is a curve sign, a "suggested" speed, and the almost certain knowledge that there is no LEO waiting around the bend.
Sure, it depends upon conditions. So here are the hypothetical conditions for your response: sunny 70 degree day; pavement dry; pavement good with no potholes and no loose gravel on the road in first three miles - though the shoulder is gravel; slight cambre in both directions from the center line; traffic in both directions very light; almost all curves are "blind" because of rock formations or trees.
Do you check your speedometer? If so, by what percentage do you increase your entry speed over the suggested one? Do you use the suggested speed as an indication of what gear you should use? Do you cover your front brake in curves? Do you believe you could stop within your sight distance? Where do you look approaching and making the turn? (Feel free to add advice or tactics which have served you well.)
Hey, there are two months or more of winter ahead of me. Time to think about riding. Hope this OP rouses some discussion and gets us all thinking about how to ride those twisties we all love in a fashion which brings us home smiling and safe.
I was a ski racer and it involves many of the same physics as motorcycle riding or racing. When I raced I raced, when I practiced I focused on skills. The practice made me a capable racer. Don't recall reading too many books ; I did have quite a lot of coaching and became a coach and teacher myself. The experience I had from practice was how I was able to "turn it on" when race day arrived.
I use my Canada/USA magical conversion kit!
If the curve sign suggests 50km/h, I figure I'm good for 50mph.
It seems to work for me.
...[ski racing] involves many of the same physics as motorcycling...jamesdunn
I tend to not let a road sign influence me regarding speed selection unless the sign is something out of the ordinary, like that cute little orange diamond shaped one on a temporary road side barricade that states "loose gravel"
Then there are times I turn around and ride elsewhere.
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On the two wheeler anyway...