Is anyone on here an average (or worse) rider?

Is anyone on here an average (or worse) rider?

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Hungrymc

6,662 posts

137 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I can get my knee down on an almost upright motorcycle. I must be awesome.

julian64

14,317 posts

254 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Hungrymc said:
I can get my knee down on an almost upright motorcycle. I must be awesome.
If you laid my bike down on the floor I still couldn't get my knee down

catso

14,787 posts

267 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Well the old gits who've been doing it for years and are still doing it must be doing something right, even if they're not as fast as they used to be.

Me, I was never as fast as I used to be...

crofty1984

15,858 posts

204 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I'm average I'd say. Unless you get me on a track, then they'll have to invent a whole new group just for me. The "look, just get off and push the fker round, it'll be quicker" group.
On the road I'd say I do the basics pretty well, but no fancy wheelie/knee down antics.

legzr1

3,848 posts

139 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Not quite as quick as I used to think I was smile

Harry H

3,398 posts

156 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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legzr1 said:
Not quite as quick as I used to think I was smile
The older I get the faster I was.

Now, on track days I'm a bit to fast for intermediates and a bit too slow for the fast group ( I find it a touch too competitive these days). Done a bit of off roading in my time. Can pull a moderate wheelie when in the mood but only off the throttle, can't do clutch up. Have never done a burnout (why waste good rubber). Can get my knee down on track days but rarely do ( just not called for on public roads).

My greatest achievement is that after 30yrs of biking and in excess of half a million miles I'm still in one piece and would like to keep it that way. My biking god days are long behind me now assuming they ever arrived in the first place.

Edited by Harry H on Tuesday 31st May 16:51

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I'm ok until I open my eyes, then it all goes wrong.

Tim85

1,742 posts

135 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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everyone is apparently boringly average on here by their own admission. This thread would be more fun if everyone had to say how good or bad other people are...




Im average.

creampuff

6,511 posts

143 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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neelyp said:
I'm utterly pish.
I've done that to my bike.

curlie467

7,650 posts

201 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Tim85 said:
everyone is apparently boringly average on here by their own admission. This thread would be more fun if everyone had to say how good or bad other people are...




Im average.
You're average.

bogie

16,382 posts

272 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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surely "average" is actually quite a high standard, when you consider you have pro racers at the top end and recent DAS test pass riders at the beginner end ....in the middle is actually going to be quite good smile

curlie467

7,650 posts

201 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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fk it then, he's below average, I was trying to be kind.

Jazoli

9,100 posts

250 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I was awesome once, now not so much.

tight5

2,747 posts

159 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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snorky782 said:
Is anyone on here an average rider?
Well, that depends.
Which average do you mean ?

Arithmetic mean


Pythagorean means




Geometric mean


Harmonic mean


Weighted mean


generalized f-mean




Comparison of arithmetic mean, median and mode of two log-normal distributions with different skewness












Yeah, I'm average!
laugh

But I can ride my bike off the drive without crashing.
whistle

Steve Bass

10,193 posts

233 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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tight5 said:
Well, that depends.
Which average do you mean ?

Arithmetic mean


Pythagorean means




Geometric mean


Harmonic mean


Weighted mean


generalized f-mean




Comparison of arithmetic mean, median and mode of two log-normal distributions with different skewness












Yeah, I'm average!
laugh

But I can ride my bike off the drive without crashing.
whistle
mmmmm, I'm convinced....

andburg

7,286 posts

169 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Steve Bass said:
julian64 said:
sc0tt said:
andburg said:
countersteer.
There goes the neighborhood.
Did someone call my name?
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I'm pretty crap I guess.

However I don't consciously counter steer so I reckon that's why I don't crash cos I keep the wheel pointed in the direction I want to go rather than yanking it the wrong way.

People go either side of me when on track but I have more to live for than them.

Depends how you measure success on a bike?
Oh God... Here come the flat earthers... hehe
te he he rofl

curlie467

7,650 posts

201 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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So what are you then OP?

Biker's Nemesis

38,651 posts

208 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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curlie467 said:
So what are you then OP?
Slower than a 90 year old mans 2nd cum at a guess...


...Tight5....Blow me.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

261 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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What part of


"Arithmetic mean


Pythagorean means




Geometric mean


Harmonic mean


Weighted mean


generalized f-mean
"








Don't you understand?






twizellb

2,774 posts

212 months

Tuesday 31st May 2016
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I'm getting slower and I can prove it!