right now i'm nursing a near broken hand and a leg that just had a 400 lbs bike on it. I wont even tell you the turn i crashed on because it's too embarrassing. Props to the cagers though every single one who passed rolled down their windows and asked if i needed help. one even parked down the street and ran back to where i was. my problem was target fixation, not focusing enough on slowing down and too much on what i was gonna hit. the obvious solution is to look where your bike is going a not where you don't want it too.
target fixation
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Mad Gnome
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Sorry to hear you dropped it, hope the bike is OK.
I could say something about riding above skill level and at +++ speed, but Im sure that would be nothing more or less than your arm is telling you without my help.
I've found one key is to not look where your bike is going, but rather where you need it to go, if you aint looking at your escape route you will never find it. gar- un- teed. Another is that if you find your mind wandering over what you ate the night before when riding anything but an empty 4 lane interstate, get your mind on the job of staying aware and you'll have fewer suprises :dunno
I think everyone has had it happen to them tho. Sometimes it's the easy ones that you let sneak up on you, then there's this 6" hole in the pavement/ oil slick/ rabbit/ jogger that takes and swallows all of your attention and then, yup- sure enough, you end up going right into it. Sux to be human sometimes. :teeth
I could say something about riding above skill level and at +++ speed, but Im sure that would be nothing more or less than your arm is telling you without my help.
I've found one key is to not look where your bike is going, but rather where you need it to go, if you aint looking at your escape route you will never find it. gar- un- teed. Another is that if you find your mind wandering over what you ate the night before when riding anything but an empty 4 lane interstate, get your mind on the job of staying aware and you'll have fewer suprises :dunno
I think everyone has had it happen to them tho. Sometimes it's the easy ones that you let sneak up on you, then there's this 6" hole in the pavement/ oil slick/ rabbit/ jogger that takes and swallows all of your attention and then, yup- sure enough, you end up going right into it. Sux to be human sometimes. :teeth
