07-19-2006, 10:19 PM
BLINGMW Wrote:So from day 1, safety and situational awareness is high priority. You don't move up (or you're at least not supposed to) if you're using 100% of your brain to keep the car on the track. And not only is it good for HPDEing, but it's assumed some of these guys might want to race, so it's best to develop it from the get go. And it's a nice skill for the street too! So why wouldn't a bike guy in a school want to do the same? Build good habits from the start? If 150MPH is overwhelming, then I'd say slow the hell down! Right? No? I can't imagine it matters what you're tracking-- car, bike, horse, snowmobile, you don't add speed until you have brain left over to handle it. You don't just ignore everything else and go balls out, you'll just end up proving to yourself that yup, tracking a bike WAS dangerous. I hate this wheelchair. Tracking a bike or car is dangerous, but aren't you interested in making it less so?
hear hear!
P.S. - Buy an SV(S).
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth