Motorcycling

I am a founder member of London Advanced Motorcyclists In case you are in London UK, ride a motorcycle and are at all interested in riding better or safer or in getting cheaper insurance. Here's an application form (appn) this plus the LAM home page above should tell you all you care to know.

LAM is a registered charity and is affiliated to the Institute of Advanced Motorists.

Advanced Riding

Is a BIG subject ... but here are a few relevant images:
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from Motorcycle Roadcraft, this picture shows how we use the "Vanishing Point" to judge the severity of a bend and how to adjust the 'bike's speed for the bend and what we can see of the road ahead.
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This picture shows two qualified LAM Observers obeying all those rules on not overloading the vehicle and not being complete pratts... [errare humanum est] ...

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Here are some diagrams, courtesy of Jon Taylor , showing how the vision line affects your line on the road seen from above...
Click on each thumbnail to see the full size diagram - use your browser's back button to get back here.
Note that there's a correct and an incorrect version of each diagram ... I hope you will follow the correct ones!

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Also visit the Text / Articles page ... there's some stuff on Advanced Riding there....

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