Training

"Steve Leazer" <ec-135paccs.DeleteThis@thegrid.net> wrote in message
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> I think you paint with a pretty broad brush here.
> There are some really underskilled riders out there. There
> are also many with excellent riding skills. Many riders who
> come back for some training make a lot of "discoveries" that
> might save their lives. The bottom line is that there is a
> very broad mix of skills out there on the road. Some, who
> have lots of training are so dangerous to themselves and
> others that I would prefer to be as far away from them as
> possible on the road. Training is a good start. -- steve
>
>

That's a good way of looking at training, Steve. The trained rider who
thinks he knows it all, is a dangerous rider. Even after I passed my riding
test and got my license, I took the 20-hour novice course at a Vo-Tech
because the only previous training I had was when I was 16 and my father
stood in the street, yelling at me in an attempt to teach me from scratch
how to ride, even though he wasn't a rider, himself. Following the novice
course, I took three advanced rider courses. It wasn't long after my third
course that counter-steering saved my life when a van came across a double
yellow line straight at me. Hitting the brakes, as many might have done,
would have been fatal.

I've now been riding as safely as possible since 1989 without even a get-off
(not including my teen years of long ago). I confess I am now a fair weather
rider but used to put in around 15,000 a year, riding with ABATE of Delaware
and a few other organizations. And I'm a cruiser rider, by the way.

As you said, training is a good start.
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