Well done Iceman.Originally Posted by schwee
I had a "near miss" not that long ago, when a car at a junction pulled out.
I did something similar to you in that it was hard braking followed by a swerve and like you it worked out for me.
It's really important not to panic or give up and the track days can be really helpful in knowing what you can do on your bike with respect to both leaning and braking.
Just to pick up on the positioning point though.
Both IAM and ROSPA would tell you to be over to the LHS of the road on a right hand bend both for safety and early view.
There are always situations where you have to use your judgment and move off the ideal line e.g. pedestrians, cars at junctions, gravel, poor road surface, bad camber, possible ice under trees etc., but the advice they give is to posistion over to the LHS on a right hand bend and over to the RHS on a left hander.
Being over to the right can put you at conflict with oncoming traffic, but remember you have have the early view.
Whislt moving over mid bend is daunting to learners it's becomes second nature if you practice.
I'm perfecting my posistioning with a ROSPA tutor at the moment.
I paid £25 to join the local group and I pay £10 per ride for my observers petrol. On Thursday we were out for about 2.5 hours with about 1.5 hours riding and the rest talking about it.
My riding has improved loads and the value for money is amazing.
