silverclaws
Senior Retro Guru
Thats why when I ride or drive on the road, I am at such a speed where I am not just scanning the road ahead and behind, yeah, i use a rear view mirror on the road, but what distractions affect car drivers, ( pax, mobile phones, twiddling with the ICE, doing other stuff or just plain being unobservant with tunnel vision ( the female driver's forte)), and what is happening to the side of me. I practise defensive driving and I drive to what the maximum speed limit says the road is suitable for, as it is there for a very good reason, not just to annoy lead footed motorists.
On the trails, my hands are covering the brakes all of the time and I expect the unexpected and I employ listening, hear an excited child's loud voice, the brakes get skimmed until I know what the hazard is and where it is.
Over cautious, nope, just I don't want to be the one who regrets their actions when someone is injured and as a car driver, I have an important lesson under my belt of driving at the speed limit on a road which happened to be a clearway where I could not see what was around the curve in the road; I smashed into a post van parked without lights and severely injured the postie, ruining his career. Those cries still echo in my mind, so I take care. Court action deemed it was the postie's fault, yet as I pleaded guilty with mitigating circumstances, unlit road, vehicle stopped on clearway without lights before sunrise, I believed it was not entirely my fault despite being aware one should drive at such a speed one can safely stop in, I got a fifty quid fine for driving without due care and attention, if I hadn't have pleaded guilty, I would have got off without the fine, but in my mind I had broke the safe speed stopping rule and paid the consequences and there learned from my mistake.
Speed is dangerous, excessive speed more so and I like to take life at a calmer pace.
Experience tends to teach valable lessons.
On the trails, my hands are covering the brakes all of the time and I expect the unexpected and I employ listening, hear an excited child's loud voice, the brakes get skimmed until I know what the hazard is and where it is.
Over cautious, nope, just I don't want to be the one who regrets their actions when someone is injured and as a car driver, I have an important lesson under my belt of driving at the speed limit on a road which happened to be a clearway where I could not see what was around the curve in the road; I smashed into a post van parked without lights and severely injured the postie, ruining his career. Those cries still echo in my mind, so I take care. Court action deemed it was the postie's fault, yet as I pleaded guilty with mitigating circumstances, unlit road, vehicle stopped on clearway without lights before sunrise, I believed it was not entirely my fault despite being aware one should drive at such a speed one can safely stop in, I got a fifty quid fine for driving without due care and attention, if I hadn't have pleaded guilty, I would have got off without the fine, but in my mind I had broke the safe speed stopping rule and paid the consequences and there learned from my mistake.
Speed is dangerous, excessive speed more so and I like to take life at a calmer pace.
Experience tends to teach valable lessons.
) so forks need to be long to match ?
