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🕑 Added 2023-04-23 23:10:16 +0000 UTCYou can ride quickly and in control.
You can stay within your comfort zone and not get pulled into riding at speeds you're not comfortable with.
You just need to understand the risks and manage them best for you.
My channel is about sharing things I've learned, and are continuing to learn, and hopefully inspiring you to wear gear, take courses and practice.
It's not 100% about safety. Safe is a byproduct of skill and judgment, like two sides of a coin. I know people who are slower than me and crash all the time.
Sure, there are some tricks to keep you from getting yourself into a bad situation like riding in someone's blind spot on the highway but if you really wanted to be safe, you'd sell your bike. This isn't a safe hobby at all. It's 28 times more dangerous than driving a car.
I know and met people who try to ride at the pace in this video with little to NO protective gear and no courses and no track days and no practice...those people crash...a lot. Damn near every year if not multiple times a year, I've seen it with my own eyes numerous times already this year and hear it about even more from my audience.
I can ride this pace on a big ol' 600lb BMW adventure bike with a 19" front tire with Road 6 tires on it with hardly any body position. What's that tell you?
If you can't and you're on a full blown sport bike with your loud pipe and the stickiest tires money can buy, you might want to start investing into yourself with more courses and more track days and spent time sharpening your skills, it obviously isn't the bike's fault. https://www.motojitsu.com/courses
Too many ride without intention, without purpose, without a desire to improve. Too many ride with ego, to look good/cool vs. riding well and they pay the consequences.
Most crashes happen in corners; mess up one or two or ten things and go wide off the road or into oncoming traffic. So if I can't ride quickly in the corners and make it look easy, how am I supposed to try to influence riders to get into more courses and do more track days? Why would anyone care what I have to say about cornering if I can't in fact, corner?
Taking courses and attending track days helps you understand yourself and your bike and your limits in a controlled environment. That's why, even in this video, I'm not at 100% of my ability...this was probably 80%.
Need to have the awareness and ability to be able to respond to the unknowns out there.
Remember, what's quick for me is slow for others, what's fast for me is insane to others.
Have fun but make it back home to ride another day.
FYI I've been riding the same way since I started...just better & quicker as each year passes. This isn't something "new."
95% of my riding I never record or make videos about. Many people don't seem to understand this, not sure why?
P.S. If you feel the need to unsubscribe, please do so quietly and don't waste your time emailing me some incoherent rant I won't even read.
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Comments
Inspiring 😊
As usual, your advice is spot on. “Ride your own Ride” is a great metaphor that be can applied to life.
T-490
Always the teacher. Well written, easy to understand.
Waldo
No need to post a disclaimer, if someone is riding their 1000+cc sport tourer like a grandma then they need to stick to cars.
