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Originally Posted by RingDing
2) I've also never seen any book even discuss 'block shifting' before, which is a risky practice IMO, whether you're an advanced rider or not. Why make all your gear changes in one hit, when seems to be an increased risk of misjudging the correct gear to me. Does anyone on here regularly 'block shift'? Shifting through the gears sequentially helps keep the bike balanced in my experience.
Any comments?
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Block gear changes are fine and help swift, progressive riding in certain circumstances. The place I find myself doing them most on the SV is on fast A roads with roundabouts where you can't see onto them/straightline them. I am usually going along in 4, brake for the roundabout, change straight down to 2, then use this to do the roundabout and then it's ideal for hard acceleration down the straight as you exit the roundabout.
Obviously if you're not smooth on the clutch/misjudge your speed you can have a hiccup- I locked up the back doing this one time when it wouldn't quite go into gear, then suddenly violently lurched in.
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Originally Posted by RingDing
Ideally I'll do some advanced training at some point, as its not easy to honestly assess your own riding!
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I'd recommend doing an IAM course. I "taught myself" using the police riders handbook (still my favourite advanced riding manual as it happens) and when it came to doing my first IAM observed ride the observer commented that he could see I had already had advance training. I told him I hadn't- that I'd merely read the book and tried to incorporate it into my riding. Still lots of stuff you miss out/that you think you're doing, but aren't quite doing right, etc. that an observer will spot.