07-09-13, 10:53 AM
See, chicken strips, as I've said elsewhere, are just a way to put more pressure on yourself. It's not a good idea. Concentrating on improving riding technique is a far safer and more productive approach, confidence being the best measure of how you're doing. But be warned, this has consequences too!
I used to treat my local piece of twisty road like it was my own personal race track, and each time I rode it, I'd try to do it not only smoother, but faster. Well it certainly got so I could go faster along this one stretch of road than just about anybody else. But I paid the price and took it too far, and I'm lucky to be here now. I'm still paying the price of that over-exuberance.
I'm also being a little hypocritical here, as I seem to be headed that way again, but since that crash, I do seem to have a psychological check mechanism which doesn't allow me to go quite full steam ahead. I hope it stays that way.
I used to treat my local piece of twisty road like it was my own personal race track, and each time I rode it, I'd try to do it not only smoother, but faster. Well it certainly got so I could go faster along this one stretch of road than just about anybody else. But I paid the price and took it too far, and I'm lucky to be here now. I'm still paying the price of that over-exuberance.
I'm also being a little hypocritical here, as I seem to be headed that way again, but since that crash, I do seem to have a psychological check mechanism which doesn't allow me to go quite full steam ahead. I hope it stays that way.