View Poll Results: What is the biggest factor to riding well?
Equipment
1
2.44%
Skill
18
43.90%
Knowledge
4
9.76%
Courage
2
4.88%
Judgement
16
39.02%
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Most importantant factor for riding?
#11
Knowledge, gear and courage are needed stepping stones/helpers, however they all lead to making the rider a more skilled rider.
Maybe I see this as more of a semantic question than anything else. I would like to see the results without skill as an option.
#13
#14
Well, it's pretty hard to have skill without knowledge or judgment.
On gear... I bet I can outride Rossi if he's on a 50cc mini trail.
And on courage... well, if you're afraid to ride a bike then the rest doesn't matter.
But you said to pick one that was most important... which would lead most to answer "skill". So then asking how you can acquire skill without the other three is ghey.
On gear... I bet I can outride Rossi if he's on a 50cc mini trail.
And on courage... well, if you're afraid to ride a bike then the rest doesn't matter.
But you said to pick one that was most important... which would lead most to answer "skill". So then asking how you can acquire skill without the other three is ghey.
#15
#16
I vote for judgement. The people I know who crash the most have decent skills at least but questionable judgement. There's so much power and agility and you're often on such a razor's edge on a sportbike that it's very easy to go far beyond your skill, available grip, or any modicum of safe riding practice if you don't have judgement or restraint. This is true anywhere, off road, in traffic, in the hills, or even on the track to a lesser extent. Judgement is also required to a certain extent to practice and improve ones skills.
Poor riders who ride well within their skills due to their judgement are generally quite safe. I know some ex-motorcycle racers who are quite unsafe on the street because they treat the street without the extreme respect it deserves; the street is not the near pristine tarmac you get on the track and it can be hard to unlearn that if you spend dozens of hours every month practicing and racing on the track.
Poor riders who ride well within their skills due to their judgement are generally quite safe. I know some ex-motorcycle racers who are quite unsafe on the street because they treat the street without the extreme respect it deserves; the street is not the near pristine tarmac you get on the track and it can be hard to unlearn that if you spend dozens of hours every month practicing and racing on the track.
#18
#20
I went judgement, it's about being honest enough with yourself to know when you're in over your head, and also making that decision that says "Let's just wait here for a second, I didn't see that guy put his indicator on so he might have been driving with it on for the last 3 miles"
Aim to grow old.
But I think it probably applies just as much in a car too
Aim to grow old.
But I think it probably applies just as much in a car too