[What May Have Caused This Crash?]

Great info. I'll be at Streets of Willows this Saturday doing Level 1.

[Holding On Too Tight To The Bars?]

Did I read.. "Push and release" ?

[What May Have Caused This Crash?]

Does it look like he did a mid turn correction? It appears he pushed a second time on the inside handlebar.

[What May Have Caused This Crash?]

I would be very interested in hearing from the experts on this forum as to the possible reasons for this crash.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4pOG9n_n8&feature=em-uploademail

[How The Entering Speed For Each Turn Is Found?]

Maybe I am being too critical - it's something I'm guilty of in everything I do!

 

I wasn't so much wanting a way to absolutely decide the entry speed, just a way to judge it better. I hope that makes sense.

 

I always ride to stop in the distance I can see to be clear on my side of the road and am familiar with the VP from doing my IAM test. However, even though I passed the test the examiner did say that I could pick the pace up a bit and still be completely safe, it just doesn't feel like it when I'm approaching the bends. As soon as I'm in them, however, it's obvious that I've over compensated and slowed too much. As I said above, I find the VP method doesn't give you a decisive TP or definitive action point. It encourages lazy steering as the tendency is to speed up and slow down as the VP moves away/comes closer. It also makes it difficult to only use 1 steering input per turn.

 

At no point on level 1 did we discuss how to select the TP for unfamiliar roads. We discussed how most people turn early and slowly and discussed moving it further into the turn but there was no real discussion of unfamiliar street riding. This was always 1 of my concerns before doing the school - most stuff is very easy on a track that you go over and over but can be very different on some of Yorkshire's finest roads. I'm not saying that the school skills don't apply to the road, just that it can be a bit difficult to transfer them over easily.

 

I guess I should just accept the way I ride and get over it.

 

Dae.

I have the same issues you are facing. I started video taping my rides, then watching them after. Stepping through the vid very slowly for each turn and keeping my eyes on the VP really opened things up for me. I could see where I dropped my line of sight and when I charged the apex when I actually thought I was going in deep.