cedarbrook63
Junior Member
A nice sunny afternoon in Dublin - I'm here for a few days work as I periodically am. I've been looking at the preview on YouTube of Motorman's Ride Like a Pro 5 and decided to go to an empty carpark I know to practice some of the moves - Figure 8, U-turn, Riding Tight Circles - you know the drill..... I was on the bike I keep here - a 1250 GT Suzuki Bandit. My Harley stays at home in England where it can live in the garage when I'm not riding. The Bandit is a good torquey workhorse although low on character.
Anyway, on my way back I leave the motorway on the exit lane, I see a big Mercedes stopped (illegally) and part-turned so that he is 90 degrees across part of the lane. I can see he's looking at oncoming traffic so that he can dart out to return in the direction her was coming. I'm there doing about 40mph with a cage close behind me so I can't stop suddenly to let him go like I could in urban traffic, I'm wearing my high viz dayglo so-uncool yellow waistcoat and that Merc just looks right through me and decides to go for it. He accelerates out into the lane as I am almost in front of him....
Jerry the Motorman recommends making a little counter weave or wobble (controlled
) just before executing a U-Turn and I'd spent about 20 minutes doing one after another of these as well as the other moves. Thank God I had because without thinking, I put a big collision-avoiding weave into those handlebars with more lean over than I've ever done and carried me - I swear - inches from the front of the Merc. I saw a flash of utter horror and surprise on the guy's face as I flashed before his eyes, which just proves he never knew I was there. I straightened up in control in my own lane and saw him racing away like the Feds were on his tail - maybe they were...
If I could re-run the whole thing - I honestly don't know what I could have done differently.
If you read this Jerry Palladino or if any member knows the Motorman - big sincere thank you from me.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall guys? Practice......
Keeps you out of hospital too.
To Hades with the import/postage costs - I'm ordering that DVD
Anyway, on my way back I leave the motorway on the exit lane, I see a big Mercedes stopped (illegally) and part-turned so that he is 90 degrees across part of the lane. I can see he's looking at oncoming traffic so that he can dart out to return in the direction her was coming. I'm there doing about 40mph with a cage close behind me so I can't stop suddenly to let him go like I could in urban traffic, I'm wearing my high viz dayglo so-uncool yellow waistcoat and that Merc just looks right through me and decides to go for it. He accelerates out into the lane as I am almost in front of him....
Jerry the Motorman recommends making a little counter weave or wobble (controlled
) just before executing a U-Turn and I'd spent about 20 minutes doing one after another of these as well as the other moves. Thank God I had because without thinking, I put a big collision-avoiding weave into those handlebars with more lean over than I've ever done and carried me - I swear - inches from the front of the Merc. I saw a flash of utter horror and surprise on the guy's face as I flashed before his eyes, which just proves he never knew I was there. I straightened up in control in my own lane and saw him racing away like the Feds were on his tail - maybe they were...If I could re-run the whole thing - I honestly don't know what I could have done differently.
If you read this Jerry Palladino or if any member knows the Motorman - big sincere thank you from me.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall guys? Practice......
Keeps you out of hospital too.
To Hades with the import/postage costs - I'm ordering that DVD
