Shiny side up.
Discussion
I'm looking for a kind of consensus here by this.
http://www.multiprint.uk.com/shinysideup/default.h...
You'll have all seen the Shiny side up boards around the roads.
Do you think they work? I've just come back from a weekend in Scarborough and on the way there wasn't any signs, yet coming home (Same route)there were lots of boards with the "shiny side up" slogan and also "Bends, to die for?"
The bends slogan was as we approached a series of corners that could be quite ermm... Risque if approached a bit over zealously.
I must say I thought about how I'd be taking those corners on the bike. But with those signs fresh in my head I'd have kind of held back a bit.
So I suppose they've worked for me even though I was in the car.
Better than a Scamera IMO.
http://www.multiprint.uk.com/shinysideup/default.h...
You'll have all seen the Shiny side up boards around the roads.
Do you think they work? I've just come back from a weekend in Scarborough and on the way there wasn't any signs, yet coming home (Same route)there were lots of boards with the "shiny side up" slogan and also "Bends, to die for?"
The bends slogan was as we approached a series of corners that could be quite ermm... Risque if approached a bit over zealously.
I must say I thought about how I'd be taking those corners on the bike. But with those signs fresh in my head I'd have kind of held back a bit.
So I suppose they've worked for me even though I was in the car.
Better than a Scamera IMO.
Corners are more fun than going fast in a straight line though. It's all about responsibility, because modern bikes are all more capable than their riders... and for very many people, a motorbike is a toy to have fun on.
Personally I'd rather see 'enthusiastic' cornering being taught in the bike test. Not knee-down nonsense, but at least enough information to learn about dangers and limits, and the consequences of different 'wrong' reactions to entering a corner badly.
But I reckon some sort of skidpan training should be part of the car test too, so drivers are aware what happens when your tyres lose grip. I appreciate that some people hold the opposite view and that teaching the correct response to a skid just encourages younger drivers / riders to overstep the limits for a laugh (much like most PHers like to say they can control oversteer slides)...
It's a difficult one, really - how to have fun without being unsafe. Motorcycling is largely recreational after all - if it's not fun then nobody would bother.
Personally I'd rather see 'enthusiastic' cornering being taught in the bike test. Not knee-down nonsense, but at least enough information to learn about dangers and limits, and the consequences of different 'wrong' reactions to entering a corner badly.
But I reckon some sort of skidpan training should be part of the car test too, so drivers are aware what happens when your tyres lose grip. I appreciate that some people hold the opposite view and that teaching the correct response to a skid just encourages younger drivers / riders to overstep the limits for a laugh (much like most PHers like to say they can control oversteer slides)...
It's a difficult one, really - how to have fun without being unsafe. Motorcycling is largely recreational after all - if it's not fun then nobody would bother.
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