08-23-2014, 10:38 PM
I've been practicing this for decades, and I still haven't perfected it, that is, been perfectly consistent. Sometimes I find myself looking for road debris, at stuff on the shoulder, or too far inside the curve searching for oncoming vehicles, etc. Also, occasionally I still find myself pushing on the outside grip instead of counter-steering in curves. Combined with not looking where I want to go, I can end up in some very floaty, wobbly curves, followed by some vigorous self-counselling on exit.
I take the MSF advanced rider course every other year. In one class our instructor told the story of a touring biker cruising through Kansas when he ran off the road into a vast, wide-open cornfield--well, almost wide open. There was just one thing in the field, in his path: the center pivot for a traveling irrigation system. He hit it. Target fixation 'n all.
I take the MSF advanced rider course every other year. In one class our instructor told the story of a touring biker cruising through Kansas when he ran off the road into a vast, wide-open cornfield--well, almost wide open. There was just one thing in the field, in his path: the center pivot for a traveling irrigation system. He hit it. Target fixation 'n all.