Post test tips

[TheSmiler]

I know this may have been done before but things change, anyway as I've got a larger bike and passed my bike test IO want to actually focus on my riding more.

So has anyone got any good advanced riding tips/things to read. I've got a copy of twist the wrist and roadcraft. But is there anything else that you would recommend looking at/tips
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[CaNsA]

watch these vids
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=286410

dont crash
look ahead
watch for stop barriers and crisp packets
develop spidey sense

[-Matt-]

[CaNsA]

[kramdra]

[illuminateTHE...]

Have a quick wank before your test.
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[CaNsA]

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[davebike]

[_Iain_]

[lihp]

[TheSmiler]

[Teflon-Mike]

Smiler... you have a certain, err... 'duality' to your psyce, which I can only 'advanced riding techniques' some-what compounding, taking you back to where you started. On the one hand, you over think everything, and where you lack knowledge, your imagination makes enormous leaps painting in the gaps... then you get on the bike... and 'thinking' happens on a rather different, and often quite detached level to the reflex responses of controlling a motorcycle... as long as the detachement is large enough... you have survived... 'cos your brain hasn't done anything to fuck up the bike... and your hands and legs have been getting on with the job instinctively, like walking.... then you have a wibble, and a conciouse thought interupts what your body is doing... and you trip over a crisp packet or ride into a turn-pike or what-ever!

DO NOT read or watch twist of the wrist... Code, in his philosophy for riding does have some good ideas... unfortunately dummed down for 'mericans... a lot of the reasoning behind his suggestions are lost, and repetition distortion has turned suggestions into mantra, and made it very very dangerouse.... and if you start THINKING about that sort of crap... well.... you never know when your brain will have one of those moments and instruct your body to do something not very helpful!

STOP THINKING - START RIDING

All you need do... stop having 'ideas'... cant have bad ones then...

Otherwise, its riding a motorbike; it's not piloting a super-tanker in and out of port, or performing lazer micro-surgery... there's not THAT much to it, that needs THAT much thinking about... so stop thinking! Get doing!

Normalise your riding, start trusting your reflexes and instincts and letting them do the business end of riding... remember, when you dont trust them... that's when you have fucked up. So don't give your imagination any more fuel to start interfering with your reflexes and instincts... take up crochet, or follow the stock market, learn Manderin, get some language tapes on MP3 and learn while you ride or SOMETHING to keep that over active imagination of yours occupied on ANYTHING but worrying about riding a motorbike! Reflex and instinct are doing a good enough job, for now left to get on with it!

Riding motorbikes is an intuitive process, not an intellectual one, so stop intellectualising the job... enjoy the tactile and intuitive, and let that evolve, and your riding will get better WITHOUT fretting over the Hendon Shuffle, Vanishing points, corner geometry or code-concious-counter-steer, or any other intellectual influence.
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[Diggs]

If you aren't going to take further training the only way to learn is through experience. Tag along with some people who have been riding for a while, work out for yourself who is safe and follow them. Don't be tempted to ride faster than you feel comfortable - you will pick up speed with time...
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[Rogerborg]

I find myself agreeing with Mike.

Weird; I usually agree with everyone else.

Relax. You've proved all that you need to prove. Don't feel that you have to join some Roadcruft cult or develop an unstoppable streetfighting technique.

Enjoy what you've earned.
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[Fisty]

Avoid these:-

https://www.ems-access.co.uk/images/MIB40Barrier1.jpg

https://forums.egullet.org/uploads/monthly_05_2012/post-9387-0-81981300-1337992583.jpg
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[bikertomm]

Avoid gravel.

Don't turn or lean hard on gravel.

Don't use excessive front brake on gravel.

Don't fall off on gravel.


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[MC]

Felt the same after my test(s), you feel you need extra training as you've become so accustomed to a tiddler. What I think helps is riding different bikes (maybe borrow Fisty's ), as they teach you something new, and help make you a more complete rider.
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[Rogerborg]

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[Pol Anorl]

[hmmmnz]

my tip are :
ride, avoid man hole covers in the wet, try not to crash,
thats it, all these "tips" are bollocks
you'll figure it out, or you'll crash, or both,
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[kramdra]

[TheSmiler]

Interesting replies cheers


Regarding advanced riding for examples Rospa, Iam, Bikesafe etc. I can't really go into that, well I can but it feels like it may be counter intuitive. All down to the fact I'm going have to do the tests all again next year.

Or mod1 and mod2 the year after and some of the advanced riding tips I was told not to do on my test because it can be used negatively.