GOT BENT?


keep his cool. The moral of this story is that a skilled,


safe rider is someone who has superior decision-making skills as much as physical ones. In our classes we say that an expert rider is someone who uses expert judge- ment to avoid having to use expert skills. Of course, it’s best to have both in spades. Put another way, I strive to always have slightly more skills than stupidity. Getting back to your original question, I


think this issue has been most effectively dealt with in the aviation community. Pilots are required to pass tests and demonstrate continued proficiency based on the aircraft they are piloting. In other words, if you pass your test flying a single-engine Cessna, you are certified to fly only that type of aircraft for a finite amount of time. To keep flying you need to demonstrate that you are still safe to an experienced evaluator. Want to fly twin-engine Beechcraft? You’ll need addi- tional training and testing to be licenced and much more. We don’t need to have the law of the land


be our only guide. Every rider has a sense of when he or she is willing and/or able to manage the risks of riding to an acceptable degree. Riding will never be safe, but it can be fun and rewarding. Every time you throw a leg over your machine (or through, for you scooter folks), you must decide if the risk is worth the reward.


Lee Parks (#162125) has been riding and rac- ing motorcycles for well over 33 years. He has been the editor of both consumer and trade motorcycle magazines, manufacturers his own line of motorcycle gloves, and is a WERA national endurance champion. His riding skills book Total Control has sold over 100,000 copies in five languages around the world. Lee’s Total Control Training company manages—and is the curriculum vendor for—the California Motorcyclist Safety Pro- gram as well as several large military con- tracts. If you have a question you’d like to him to answer in this column, send him an email at lee@totalcontroltraining.net.


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