RIDER SKILLS: Situational Awareness on the Road

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Situational awareness while riding a motorcycle means being aware of your surroundings and predicting what might happen based on what you see. It's about paying attention to the road, other vehicles, weather, people and more. In this episode, Clinton...

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0:00.0	As a rider,
0:03.0	rider, as a rider, you're going to
0:09.0	as a rider, you probably already understand the value of being extra alert while
0:14.0	riding a motorcycle down the road, especially in traffic, and giving yourself that
0:18.7	time to react to what drivers do on the road. But reacting is high stress, and there's the delay.
0:26.2	The delay from your brain seeing what happened, understanding what happened, and then
0:30.2	coming up with some sort of defensive maneuver.
0:33.0	But, what if we could predict what is going to happen next?
0:39.0	What if when a driver decided to do something crazy, you are already anticipating it and already
0:49.1	had a plan?
0:50.8	Then instead of it being an, oh no, I can't believe they just did that, it would be more like,
0:56.0	well, I saw that one coming.
0:58.0	Like seeing into the future.
1:01.0	Well, today on our exclusive rider skills program that's what
1:05.6	we're going to learn to do. Look into the future and predict what may happen as we
1:12.0	ride down the road.
1:13.0	I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio.
1:16.0	Stay with us, we've got a good one for you. Oh, I'm going to say. I'm going to be.
1:44.0	Oh, Sam Manix, it's
1:46.0	so most of this.
1:50.0	Simon baby has prepared us.
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