theres 10s of thousands of bikers that ride bikes every day to and from work, a lot of them bigger bikes, but they gain a lot of daily experiance. what pishs me off is when you get sunday afternoon bikers who barely ride (maybe 1000miles a year) who then go out and buy some ridiculous bike that whey exceeds their skill level, and often their fitness LMAo.
I ride mountain bikes, yeah they don't have an engine, but they have two wheels, and much of teh movements and skills can be carried over, esp when sliding + out of control etc.
I'm young, and fit enough, but I still find it funk hard and difficult to ride a push bike on teh edge etc.
I also ride bikes, only learner bikes at the mo, and something a bit meatier in the field/round farm, but even then, I find it quite physically demanding to ride a bike PROPERLY, and control it with not just your hands but your torso, shoulders and most of all HIPS to swing it around and recover it.
the number of fat, overweight and generally unfit looking riders I see riding increasingly more powerful bikes (1-200bhp category stuff!!
) that they just couldn't ever physically handle, never mind master, just outstands me. Who is selling them these machines!!
I'm not gonna pass my full bike license before the regs change, and when the regs change I hope it makes more responsible riders out of those who do then pass the highest difficulty test, and hopefully start changing the way people ride.
Also cars **** me off when I'm riding, riders **** me off when I'm driving LOL.
Although by doing both, you see the common fautls that both parties have, e.g cars not looking for LEGIT bike manovours, and bikers for often behaving like morons in all the usual ways etc etc
