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Same thing goes for rally drivers (or regular driving or bike riding): you drive to where you look at. If you want to stay on the road, look at the road.
by tomaskafka 7y ago
Same thing goes for rally drivers (or regular driving or bike riding): you drive to where you look at. If you want to stay on the road, look at the road.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoThat's the exact opposite. Professional drivers just look where they are trying to go (visualize their line or however you want to describe it) and the muscle memory follows. The whole purpose of checklists, point and call, etc, etc, is to explicitly not use muscle memory and break that shortcut in the brain so that when something is wrong that one time in a thousand you actually notice.
- olyjohn 7y agoI've found that when you are cornering on a motorcycle, you look to where you want to go, and the bike follows. If you try to think too much about where to place the motorcycle in the lane as you go, you end up looking at the edges of the lane. Inevitably the bike follows to the edge of the lane, which is not where you wanted to go, and can put you in a bad situation. I can't explain why it works, but if I look down the road and around the corner as far as I can, the bike will follow the proper path. I don't even feel like I'm giving the steering any inputs. It's very strange. They kept teaching this over and over in our safety class, but in the safety class, you aren't riding fast enough to notice. (mostly in a parking lot). When you are riding very slowly, the motorcycle tends to act more like a bicycle. But above like 20mph, the steering behavior changes. This I also don't really understand. It's kind of the exact opposite of pointing, speaking and being deliberate.