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The Vanishing Point

The Vanishing point is only part of it. That's talkin about stuff that isn't moving (isn't it?).

The public road has something else. On-coming vehicles that may not be on their own side of the road. The closing speed...puts even higher demands on how the biker is entering a corner.
 
louemc said:
The Vanishing point is only part of it. That's talkin about stuff that isn't moving (isn't it?).
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This is correct. The usefulness of the vanishing point is in giving the rider the earliest indicator of the configuration of the road immediately ahead. It's clearly not the only factor one should take into account when setting their speed. That said, seeing that a turn is tightening up will allow the rider to slow down for that portion of the turn before he's in it.
 
:bump for an awesome topic
 
Well bumped!

And I just posted a video that covers the vanishing point both near the start & in more depth towards the end, in the 'Video & Photo' topic.

See 'The Art of Turning Left' :).
 
louemc said:
The Vanishing point is only part of it. That's talkin about stuff that isn't moving (isn't it?).

The public road has something else. On-coming vehicles that may not be on their own side of the road. The closing speed...puts even higher demands on how the biker is entering a corner.
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I've been on organized rides where the lead rider cut the yellow at a blind corner and EVERYONE behind followed them. I asked the person in front of me if they felt comfortable doing that, they responded that:" The person in front of me didn't have a problem." God. I turned around and went home. This was a fairly well known organized local ride. Nobody knows what is coming. Poor Joe Montoya found that out the hard way.
 
Good thread. I have always (maybe not always, but certainly in past decades(ouch old)) that should not outrider the road you can see,

The faster you go, the less far you can see. At 60 mph, if it takes you a half second to recognize and react to something, you just traveled 44 feet. That is 44 feet less that you can see ahead.
 
Awesome approach. Usually you see this with just the above diagram, but having the actual images of the road from "bike level" is extremely cool.
 
This thread should be required reading for every BARFer with a bike. :thumbup
 
afm199 said:
I've been on organized rides where the lead rider cut the yellow at a blind corner and EVERYONE behind followed them. I asked the person in front of me if they felt comfortable doing that, they responded that:" The person in front of me didn't have a problem." God. I turned around and went home. This was a fairly well known organized local ride. Nobody knows what is coming. Poor Joe Montoya found that out the hard way.
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:thumb up When I lived in the Monterey bay area, did a few rides with the group that were fast guys, and dropped the name "club Desmo", I was shocked by what passed for rational thinking.

They should of called themselves club death...They had like three in one year.

I stopped riding with them...I couldn't stand being around them.
 
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