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richie
 Post subject: Advanced rider training
PostPosted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:35 pm 
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Going out for an informal spin with an advance trainer tomorrow... Not sure what to expect as I've never done it before, in all my 250000miles of riding.... :mrgreen:

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Who are you going out with? Generally I think it's a good idea. I'm waiting for the Guards to extend the bikesafe scheme to the south.
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Hi Ferg, its informal so I can't say

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OOOOOOOOO

8)

Dark and mysterious :wink:

Enjoy.
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Fergus wrote:
I'm waiting for the Guards to extend the bikesafe scheme to the south.

Me too.... did get a card for a Gerard McCarthy who a mate of mine recommended. He caters for Kerry/Limerick area apparently.

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Fergus wrote:
OOOOOOOOO

8)

Dark and mysterious :wink:

Enjoy.


I know....

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Chris, remember the ride from the meeting to the tea shop...

Well...

An interesting statistic...
Just back from the informal "advanced rider session"...

Now I got to lead a leg on a bit of road I did on Sunday....

I had my GPS with me and was not thinking of what I ended up doing...

On sunday I was going for it and did a 75KMH average speed on this leg 20miles

Today on my last bit of the session I did an average speed of 74KMH...


Oh dear I hear you all say after all this training...
But...

















On sunday my max speed was 35KMH faster than today... On top of that I really felt good about todays ride where as Sunday, sometimes I was maybe a bit on the limit.... I don't mean dangerous, just "limit"


Brilliant.

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Don't know what to make of that... glad you enjoyed your day! Did think of a load of other stuff to say but.. what were you doing for the last 250000 miles??? :mrgreen:

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don't know........ :D

It was the ease of it, I suppose that made it good

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There'as an interesting discussion related to this on the XRV UK forum:

http://www.xrv.org.uk/forums/riding/37952-why-do-people-have-ride-fast-roads.html

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Yes I have seen that, the guy we went out was totally OK. No pressure to overtake if you did not feel like it...

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I have added a comment to the XRV advance riding thread to see how they all react! Watch this space. :twisted:

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simon wrote:
I have added a comment to the XRV advance riding thread to see how they all react! Watch this space. :twisted:


THe bait's been there for over seven hours and they still haven't taken it Simon. I think they must be getting to know you! :lol:
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simon wrote:
I have added a comment to the XRV advance riding thread to see how they all react! Watch this space. :twisted:

You are a bad man! I notice you only claim ownership of one m/cycle on the XRV UK forum :wink:

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chrish wrote:
simon wrote:
I have added a comment to the XRV advance riding thread to see how they all react! Watch this space. :twisted:

You are a bad man! I notice you only claim ownership of one m/cycle on the XRV UK forum :wink:


opps, did i forget to mention that i ride a C90 now!

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