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2005! on our Easy and Secure Motorcycle Helmet Web
Site
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know how to make it easy to shop. Fussing with difficult payment screens
can drive you nuts! With us, it is easy. No membership, no passwords, no
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When you are riding
your motorcycle, you have to be aware of hazards at all
times.
One method to search for objects that
may or may not be visible is by the use of radar. On land,
radar can track cars and planes. Radar’s companion, sonar, is used
for underwater searches. As motorcyclists, we can extend a radar
analogy to finding hazards.
Out in the real world, hazards can
approach from any direction. For those who have attended the MSF
beginner course, the acronym SIPDE was used to describe a strategy
for dealing with hazards: Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute.
Now, I don’t know about each and every one of you, but I was glad
that in the experienced class, we combine the first two and last two
steps and get SPA: Search, Predict, Act. Being over 50, three things
are easier to remember than five.
Both of these strategies deal with
risk management of hazards in time and space. However, they have one
very important feature in common: Where to search. The answer (drum
roll please….) is everywhere! We don’t know if the hazard is in
front, in back, or to the sides, so we must have two heads and four
eyes, or so it seems, to be vigilant.
One important statistic that came out
of the Hurt study was the percentage of accidents relative to the
position of the rider. Imagine yourself going along in a straight
line. Now draw a circle around yourself. Using clock positions,
place 12:00 straight ahead, 3:00 to the right, 6:00 behind and 9:00
to the left. Got the picture? Accident data revealed that the 11
o’clock position was the one where most crashes happened. Does that
make sense? Doesn’t that describe the most frequent problem of the
left turning driver into your path?
OK, so now we know the worst potential
position. The others are also important. How do we guard against the
other possibilities? I like to answer this by considering the
aircraft controller screen. The circular screen has a line, which is
the radius, sweeping in a counterclockwise direction. The important
point is that it doesn’t miss a thing. We can mimic this by looking
ahead, to the right and left, and in both the right and left
mirrors. Of course, I’m going to pay special attention to that 11
o’clock position, but
I’m not going to forget about the
others. So, my motorcycle radar is on.
Now, take that circle you’ve drawn
around yourself. Let’s go for a ride. 1st gear (its all right), 2nd
gear (lean right), 3rd gear (hold on tight)….faster…OK, 4th &
5th ….[this is your captain; we have attained cruising speed…].
We’re still searching using the radar analogy. Is that circle around
you still appropriate? Not really…threats from behind are much less
likely.
What I want you to do is to think of a
teardrop shape. Place the teardrop around you and point the ‘tail’
behind you. Place yourself about one-third from the tail, with the
large rounded part of the drop in front. Congratulations! This is
your new shape, or ‘bubble’ against which you will search with your
radar.
OK, stop sign ahead; slow using both
brakes and downshift to first gear before stopping. What happened to
your teardrop? Did it slowly become a circle, then reverse with the
tail in front and the large rounded drop to the rear? I hope so,
because now your biggest problem is, “Did the guy behind me stop?”
The radar is focused more to the rear. If that truck didn’t stop,
hey, you’re in first gear right? Did you include an escape route in
your radar search? I hope so…OK, ease out the clutch and go there!
Finally, after the hazard is off your
radar screen, what do you do?
Hint: Do they ever turn off the
aircraft controller screen?
OK, what have we learned?
·
Hazards are everywhere.
· Search continuously to find them!
· Use the radar screen analogy to help you perform the
search.
· Change your ‘circle’ to the teardrop as your
riding situation changes.
· The 11 o’clock position is
potentially the most dangerous.
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