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Posted: 17:26 - 22 Dec 2016 Post subject: Re: Riding in very slow, nearly stopped traffic |
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IggyT wrote: |
I'd like to know how other people deal with this type of traffic?.
Currently I leave my left leg off the peg ready for putting down and get better balance. Then I use my right foot to operate the rear brake to slow the bike and let traffic behind me know I'm braking.
Is only using the rear brake ok, in terms of a test situation, to stop the bike at very slow speeds. |
Yes. Just like that but keep your foot on the peg until you actually need to put it down. With more practice, you can do it more and more slowly. It's the main thing people screw up on their test so if you can do it well, MOD 1 should hold no fears for you. If you touch the front brake on the slow riding parts or U-turn, you fail.
If the traffic is very slow and you think you're cooking the clutch, Stop for a bit. Letting a gap form ahead of you isn't a problem. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Posted: 19:47 - 22 Dec 2016 Post subject: Re: Riding in very slow, nearly stopped traffic |
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IggyT wrote: | Is only using the rear brake ok, in terms of a test situation, to stop the bike at very slow speeds. |
It's fine, it's what it's there for.
+1 on there being no benefit to trying to creep forwards at a constant pace. Stop, go, repeat. Don't dangle your legs like a pedboi - NEET FEAT!!!!
You'll get to the end of the congestion in exactly the same amount of time, although the White Van Man behind you may believe differently. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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To answer the OP. Not much more to add apart from what has been said before, especially by the Borg.
This is basic CBT stuff. You should have learnt this as part of the CBT. Putting it into practice is more forward planning. As you are riding down the road, watch the cars, not just the one in front, but the one 4, 5, 6, 8, whatever in front, Logic dictates that the furthest away car puts his brake lights on the rest will follow suit, so why be a sheep? Roll the throttle off when you see that first car brake, use the slow control, maybe you do not have to stop, maybe you do. ____________________ illuminateTHEmind wrote: I am just more evolved than most of you guys... this allows me to pick of things quickly which would have normally taken the common man years to master
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Posted: 23:00 - 28 Dec 2016 Post subject: |
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I went to a winter skills course and did some slow riding, and was the bestest out of everyone there. though distinctly average on everything else.
I ride slow by using back brake and clutch, sometimes I try and balance stationary but I can only manage about 4 seconds, unless I haven't got an audience. |
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There probably is room to overtake (unless you've got google link of road to prove otherwise) but it depends on what your comfortable with. Watching RJ proves that there's always room and ways to make progress in gridlock non moving traffic but again not everywhere is London so we don't have to go to the extreme most if any of the time.
The real answer to all of this is just practice and time equals you'll get it eventually, there's nothing more or less to it.
I find it more comfortable on my ZR than I ever did on the tiddler because the first gear on my 125 was so short that it really was only to get going for a few, if that, meters to then shift up which mean't I'd have to spend the entire time in 2nd and then shift down at the last moment to stop in 1st because you really couldn't go anywhere in 1st. Well, you could but it required such finesse that it really wasn't worth it and I never quite grasped it. Anyway, practice.
As Borg and others say you could always dead stop and go. Sometimes I'll do that and other-times I'll keep my feet up for as long as I can, just depends what mood I'm in. At slow crawling speeds just let the front end follow the groves in the road and use a combination of the clutch, throttle and rear brake to slow you down. You'll develop a method that will work for you eventually or alternative getting some practice in at a training school helped me in this area to use out on the road on my own, I was doing DAS anyway rather than going to a school for this reason alone but either way no shame in doing so if it helps you.
125cc's are lightweight and like a kids toy to manoeuvre around so I'd just go for any gap and squeeze through although beware the people inside the cars won't hear you coming through, most probably.
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The last post was made 7 years, 91 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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