Letter in the local paper this week

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

The hypocrisy is that unless you ride extremely slowly, you will regularly ride beyond the limit of how far ahead you can see... Saying "oh but I'd own up and take the blame if something happens" is a pretty weak excuse

As for the rider's speed, knowing the corner I've no reason to doubt it

Not sure I agree; I can't find the original thread, but I posted on here about a ride where I was very nearly doing twice the posted limit whilst making a point of being able to stop in the distance I could see to be clear. I went from 110 to 0 very quickly indeed and stopped with 20M to spare when I rounded a bend and found a car stopped in the road in my lane. This was round a bend on a single lane country road...
Also, see this thread: http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=63265

Not saying I'm a saint who rides like this all the time (see my previous post in this thread ), but the idea that riding so you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear, automatically means you'll be riding slowly, no matter what the road is like, simply isn't true IMO. I think even when you're prepared to or in a situation when it's safer to do so than not (in fog, heavy traffic, etc.), it's worth being aware of and thinking, "how fast am I prepared to crash?" I was talking about this with one very experienced bike and his POV was that he worked it on riding so that he could brake down to <30mph before a crash.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

...the idea that riding so you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear, automatically means you'll be riding slowly, no matter what the road is like, simply isn't true IMO.

that's why i never said that...

Exocet alley actually does sound a lot better tbh.

Is this going to be an article where we find out a week later the husband wasn't driving because he was banned for DUI or some such?