mikestrivens

Well fill it up and see what happens.

[mention]Gerontious[/mention] you may find that you have recovery with one of your credit cards. I discovered that my Nat West card has full recovery built in to the fee I pay to use the card. I have since cancelled my other recovery insurances.

I have very similar problems to [mention]MarkW[/mention] with other peoples children. Generally I find them unbearably ghastly.

Hello and welcome. Good luck on the search - hope it's successful.

Top info guys

Ive ordered the Roadcraft book

Id been through alot of the RJH videos but didnt know the nottingham one

At risk of bombarding you with videos to watch when you should be out practicing, there are a couple of US channels that have very good training videos on:

MCRider and MotoJitsu

Having used every product under the sun I’ve gone over to a Scottoiler. Though a lot of people don’t like them, I’ve had no problems with it so far.

None of that is contrary to what is in Roadcraft. Of course you should move over if a lorry is approaching, you must retain your protective bubble at all times pursuant to road conditions and your safety.

It’s a very long time since I did my test but I can’t believe the examiner wouldn’t expect you to use a variety of road positions to maximise your view of the road ahead especially in bends.

If it’s a freeby then go for it and put on eBay if the reviews are correct. If money is involved there are better bikes around allegedly.

Hello and welcome

As above and when you are 24 perhaps think about doing the DAS before the CBT certificate expires

Read the following:

Roadcraft - The Police Riders Handbook

The Highway Code - and know it

And

Practice riding your bike as much as possible in a wide variety of conditions on roads that are new to you.

Practice slow manoeuvres

Chinese?

Hello and welcome

Chinese = Chinese

It's colloquial English. But now considered an ethnic slur.

Edit: added clarity.

Personally I'd rather trust to preparation, knowledge and skill rather than amulets, but each to their own.

Hello and welcome. As above

Must admit I wouldn’t want to be in a group of hyper sports bikes whilst bimbleing around on my Tiger.

Looks like you will be in the middle of a major storm on Sunday morning. Just warning.

I expect the hospital has a lucrative sideline in selling patient dara to ambulance chasers. Hence the tailored ads. You will start getting more junk email next.

Thanks for the input, everyone. I was interested in how people cope with such situations. I suppose the answer is obvious, and the same as in any given situation; that anticipation of the road conditions ahead will allow a measured, un-panicked and timely response, minimising the likelihood of locking a wheel, which is where things go downhill.

I hope you'll forgive me, but the physics of the situation interest me (it's my job!). The reason the bike tends to stand upright as you brake on a curve is that, since the bike is in contact with the ground, only it has a force acting on it to undergo the centripetal acceleration necessary to travel around the curve. Under braking, the rider will tend to obey Newton's 1st Law of motion, and carry on in a straight line, unless they essentially pull on the bike to help them round (which they will hopefully do!). The result is an increased moment about the point of contact with the road acting to make the bike upright. In fact, this moment exists even without braking, since the bike's centre of mass is above the point of contact (again, hopefully!). This explains why you sometimes see a motorbike travelling on upright after dumping a rider, although you don't with a bicycle due to the relatively low centre of mass. This means that the bike requires some input to remain banked (subtle counter-steering?). Presumably, increasing this input would allow the bike to remain banked under braking. Not that I'm going to try.

Have a look at Total Control by Lee Parks. He explains the physics of motorcycle control very well.

Take your stab vest.

I used my iPhone in a torrential downpour and it was fine. I didn't bother with the Quadlock poncho that was in the top box at the time.

It's not prime tourist season. When the hordes of aliens descend on the capital the locals will return to their surly selves.

Happy to be corrected but I can't see anything being better than my waterproof Samsung s7 with Google maps which now does speed cameras.

I'm of the same opinion with my iPhone XS Max. Using gloves with touch sensitive figures means that you still retain full functionality. I use Waze, Scenic and Google maps sometimes Apple maps but mostly Waze.

Well done [mention]elizabethf[/mention] onwards and upwards

Take the full purchase price as cash and I’m sure they’ll let you have test ride.

China is a good source of body parts.

 

They might throw in a Rhino Horn , a few Tigers Dicks and bits of anything else that's beautiful or endangered as well .

Only if you pay an arm and a leg