yes it does slow down very quickly as well, plus when driving 'quickly' I ( I can't speak for others) concentrate 110% on what I'm doing, not whats on the radio, who's texting me etc.
Observation is a funny thing, the more you 'do it' the better you get at it and bikers are VERY good as we are usually teh one who hurts if we get it wrong irrespective of who's fault it is. I've sat with teh lad I car share with and we did an experiment, he basically commeneted on everything that he could 'see' as we drove downa road for ac ouple of miles, then I did. He was gob smacked to the amount of stuff I was seeing that didn't even register in his mind. Even that sort of 6th sense stuff where I'd comment that a bird would fly off at an inappropriate time etc.
Risk is another of those funny things, and one that often gets bikers a bad name from people that have no idea what its like on a bike. You see, what to you is a high risk overtake in a fast car or bike is a simple and very low risk when you understand the capability of the machine. One of the things that our new shiny compensation culture society is breeding is people with very poor risk analysis skills. When I were a lad you went on rope swings etc and you reached a point where you decided teh rope was too high, too weak, not tied tightly etc. This was usually as a result of falling off a few times. Now kids don't have that awareness and it makes them less capable of assessing risks in other areas of life.
why shouldn't people 'soup' up cars? th epedal on teh right is an infinately variable control and even believe it or not has an 'off' position!!!
