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09-24-2009, 11:33 PM
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WERA White Plate
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NC
Moto: 2009 GSXR 1300
Posts: 2,448
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True or false? We are safer on unknown roads?
What do you all think? We tend to push it on the roads we know and take it easy/easier on those we don't know and perhaps focus a bit more.
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09-25-2009, 12:25 AM
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sergeant hatred
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ottawa
Moto: The bus
Posts: 2,723
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I don't push it at all on the street.
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09-25-2009, 05:25 AM
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Elitist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
Posts: 11,351
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I am the opposite, I'm safer on roads I know.
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09-25-2009, 07:08 AM
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Ornery, scandalous & evil
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Moto: 2004 Scarlet R1
Posts: 5,962
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I don't know if we're actually safer on unknown roads, as the same unpredictable factors exist ( i.e. Unaware cagers)... But I can see where our riding might be more cautious and focused. As to whether that nets out to greater safety is hard to determine though.
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09-25-2009, 07:27 AM
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WSB Champion
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Springfield, MO
Posts: 7,146
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I'd say yes.
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09-25-2009, 08:03 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 3,028
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Depends on who you are. Me personally, I'm MUCH slower on unknown roads......but my buddy Brian was one to blaze a path though, even if he didn't know it all that well. Maybe at a SLIGHTLY less aggressive pace, but he didn't let an unknown road slow him down THAT much.
Ultimately that cost him his life
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09-25-2009, 08:21 AM
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WERA White Plate
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NC
Moto: 2009 GSXR 1300
Posts: 2,448
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09-25-2009, 07:19 PM
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AMA Supersport
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: '04 Kawasaki ZX6RR
Posts: 3,392
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I think I'm over cautious on roads I don't know making it worse for me. I might be a little quicker on the known roads but I'm more relaxed which, for me, translates to clearer thinking, reacting differently, etc...
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09-26-2009, 12:15 AM
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Ride Like an Asshole
Join Date: Feb 2008
Moto: nothing...
Posts: 11,254
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I'm equally as dangerous regardless...
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09-26-2009, 02:27 PM
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Elitist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
Posts: 11,351
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