RIDER SKILLS: Situational Awareness on the Road

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

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 Smout, Chief Riding Instructor at SMART Adventures, talks us through ways to read the scene around us as we ride and use that information to help predict what may happen next. Photos and links related to this episode can be found in the show notes. Adventure Rider Radio is the longest-running adventure motorcycle and travel podcast, since 2014, and we remain committed to bringing you new and exciting episodes every Thursday.Never miss an episode, be sure to FOLLOW the show on your favourite podcast app.Have a show idea or suggestion, send us an email. We'd love to hear from you!If you can, we’d love to get your support, please visit the Support page on our website.Thank you for listening!

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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.
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