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Riding Tips: Wide-View Awareness

Post by toratora » Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:39 pm

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I recently attended a Doc Wong event with Keith Code as his special guest. One of the thing covered was seeing wide. Here's an article from Keith that you should check out:

https://www.motorcyclistonline.com/keit ... code-break
Keith Code wrote:October 28, 2015

We rely on our eyes’ natural ability to find reference points to help guide us safely through corners. Given the inherent frailty of our visual system and the confounding nature of our survival instincts, however, sometimes it’s questionable whether that’s enough.

It is easy to support the argument that our natural tendency to target fixate is any rider’s number-one enemy. Target fixation has sucked all of us toward danger instead of away from it at least once or twice. Tunnel vision is another closely
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