Switch the TV off and get on the bike!
The winter is for watching the telly, those cold, dark, wet nights after you've tucked your loved one up for the witner! The bike is in the garage and you're sitting down to watch the fourteenth repeat of the Vicar of Dibley! The summer months are not for sitting in front of the box, just because this weekend there happens to be action from The World Cup, Wimbledon, Moto GP from Assen and BSB from Mallory park, it's no excuse to be a coach potato. Get the leathers on, the bike out and head for the hills, or the valleys or anywhere where you can have fun on two wheels and work on improving those skills. Try the roads in the Scottish Borders, voted amoung the top 10 biking roads in the UK.
I'm not encouraging you all to go out and blast about the place, but to try and work on those observation and anticipation skills that you've read or heard about recently. It's the type of training the we get as advanced police motorcyclists that makes the difference. There's no point in hoovering into a corner to be caught out by it tightening on you, or encountering mud on the road just where you want to be if the signs are there on the approach. It's all about looking, seeing and reacting properly to what you see. You could have looked for the line of the bend by following the line of telegraph poles, or noticed the mud on the previous bend.
Sorry for the short input this week, but I've got to go now, more later.
