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Originally posted by bradders
Quote: Originally posted by Bill O
The key to all this is as Andy says “the rider should be able to stop in the distance he knows to be clear” I am genuinely interested in understanding why so many riders I meet have such difficulty with this. |
is this ALWAYS possible?? 30mph corner with tree and lots of other things to keep an eye on and a lump of mud/gravel etc half way round, like to see you stop before you hit it.... |
Paul, it's a percentages game. The slower you take a blind bend, the more chance you have of avoiding unforeseen / unforeseeable hazards lurking just beyond your vanishing point. You cannot eliminate every possible risk, but you reduce your risks the slower you go (at least, until you are going so slowly that you
become the unforeseen hazard!
).
Almost every road-user I have ever seen is going too fast to avoid every conceivable risk - it's a question of doing enough to avoid 90+% of all possible risks (or 99+% of them, if you are particularly cautious).
I'll settle for 50%, myself
12-Jan-2005, 21:03 
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