Weekly news – 05-02-2021
Survival Skills Newsletter Friday 5 February 2021 First AN ANNOUNCEMENT – if you’re not a FB fan – and I can quite understand why not – you’ll be glad to know you can now read all the latest TIPS on TUESDAY and SKILLS on SATURDAY Facebook posts over on my Ko-fi page too – I’ll be publishing them simultaneously. As part of my continuing commitment to provide high quality better biking content to all riders regardless of the depth of their pockets, you’ll be able to read them for nowt in both locations. They’ll remain free on FB but after 60 days I’ll be moving them to the indexed SUPPORTER content. The index will make it far easier to find an old article or simply track down something interesting – far far easier than the poor search facility on FB. https://ko-fi.com/Blog/Post/TIPS-on-TUESDAY-SKILLS-on-SATURDAY-2021–INDEX-O5O33H347 (And feel free to share it!) As supporter content, the price for 30 days access is just £3 – the cost of a coffee – but frankly, sixty days should give you plenty of time to read them, as well as follow up earlier posts that you might have missed from a series of linked articles. And if you do become a supporter, you get access to ALL supporter content. Right now, there are over 300 better biking articles originally published on FB on 2014 to 2016. More are going up all the time – I’ve made a start with 2017. The Survival Skills ko-Fi page is probably the biggest and best value RIDER SKILLS RESOURCE on the internet! What’s happened this week on Facebook? *** 60 SECOND SAFETY *** Don’t bite off more than you can chew 60 Second Safety is a series of short ‘Better Biking’ videos from Survival Skills Rider Training. Passing lanes like the one to the right have two lanes in one direction. … See more *** ELEVENSES LIVE *** Wed 3 Feb Jan Elevenses 110 In today’s webcast… Survival Skills Better Biking articles to be posted concurrently on FB and Ko-Fi… RST launches affordable airbag jacket… Yamaha sells off Motori Minarelli to Fantic Motor… Zero offer free charge tank with new 2020 machines… Suzuki’s 2022 Hayabusa looks like… a Hayabusa… Bad Winner Thruxton 1200 – no eye candy… and today’s better biking question – should we allow 250cc on a CBT in the UK…… See more *** TIPS ON TUESDAY *** ‘Essential Skills’ and bends 1 Back on Tuesday 12 January, I suggested that we use lockdown to do some thinking ahead for the time we can get back out on the bikes. I also pointed out my belief that there’s no point in teaching ‘better’ or ‘advanced’ riding skills’ until we have some understanding of how things go wrong in the first place. So I’m taking a look at the three commonest motorcycle crashes; at junctions, on bends and during overtaking. Continue reading *** NEWS *** Latest Facebook posts now on Ko-Fi! Although I think there’s been a bit of a bounce-back in the last couple of months, I’ve noticed that page views for my SKILLS on SATURDAY and TIPS on TUESDAY posts have dropped off quite significantly in the last ten months – instead of views in the thousands, some have only recorded views in the hundreds. I suspect this is a reflection of ‘Facebook fatigue’ during the pandemic with some people are taking a temporary break. I am… Continue reading *** ELEVENSES LIVE *** Sun 31 Jan Elevenses 109 In today’s webcast… DVLA under fire for Swansea COVID outbreak… French filtering experiment led to more accidents… Kawasaki’s timeless KLR650 re-emerges Stateside… don’t get caught by unexpected charges when ordering from Europe… a ‘bargain’ Shido Li-Fe battery – how much… filtering and lane splitting – what’s the difference – today’s Better Biking Tip… See more… *** SKILLS ON SATURDAY *** Dual carriageways – when to move out I was browsing another site with some rider advice on it and found this statement: “on a dual carriageway, change lane at the appropriate moment”. Of course, that leaves as much unsaid as it explains – what IS the ‘appropriate moment’? As so often, the answer is “it depends”. … Continue reading *** FOCUS ON FRIDAY *** Planning ahead for the end of lockdown As we reach the end of January, many of us will have been parked up since the beginning of November. It’s almost three months since I swung a leg over my bikes. Not surprisingly, there’s increasing concern that the enforced layoff might become a contributing factor in future crashes. There’s certainly evidence from the airline industry that flight crew have experienced problems maintaining proficiency. Some anxiety… […]
