The MOST Important Skill To Have On A Motorcycle
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USE YOUR BRAIN BEFORE SKILL!!! MotoJitsu.com
Let me take this moment to say a huge thank you for everything you teach and recommend, you are helping everyone to drive safer! 💪 Take care, cheers ✌️
Always assume that the other person has not seen you.
Great video, great advice as always! :)
I wish I could take the class but this California life is to expensive hahaha. When your free any advice on passing the written. I keep studying online and I can’t register this stuff.
Simply put: An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure! Also, there’s no such thing as a “Bully Bike”, on the road the biker is the “little guy” that everyone can beat up! Being humble helps as well. 👍
Ego is not your amigo. Marky Mark. 😊
I ride in the manner you recommend. At 76 my reflexes aren't what they used to be but my attention and anticipation are better than ever.
I'm a juvenile 74, race you to the finish😂....carefully of course
22 years old I stopped riding street. Felt like every time I got on the bike I almost died. Now 41, started riding again about a year ago. Haven't had the feeling since. Big thanks to this channel, the information and mind set I found later in life.
It is not only good advice for motorcycling, It is good advice for living. Coincidentally you speak about riding a motorcycle.
Hi Greg, my best friend Louis was a long time viewer of your channel. Really loved his motorbikes and learning everything he could, he told me about your channel. Unfortunately he passed away on christmas eve from a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road.
I'll continue to watch your videos in his honour. Stay safe out there guys.
Soooo true, I’m 62 and I ride like everyone is out to kill me, every blind corner is a death trap etc, I like to ride fast but I pick my spots I anticipate what the drivers are going to do, I still have fun, I still ride fast my reactions are automatic and it’s been years since I’ve been caught out by stupid drivers. If I ever come close to a difficult situation it is because of lack of attention/anticipation/fatigue. I use self analysis after the ride and try to remind myself what I did wrong and how to avoid in the future.
You're right, the self analysis keeps you humble....the day I think I've got it nailed they'll be nailing my coffin lid
Great job Greg and useful. A friend of mine was lane splitting but he was riding in the centre of a 2 lane road (ie ONE LANE EACH WAY) and a driver pulled out of a gas station on his right and he got sent otb, broke both wrists and a concussion (he was on a GS ) he couldn’t ride for 11 months.. this happened for ONE reason only….. GOING WAY TOO FAST AND HE COULD NOT STOP THE BIKE IN TIME 😢 He learned the hard way bro 😔
999 times one whizzes around a corner in perfect control. On the 1000th time one meets headlong a tractor overtaking a cyclist.
My strategy for the last 40(I’ll be 62 in a couple of months) 😊years of riding… I will keep at it and keep trying to improve until the day I stop riding.
New favorite quote. “Use your brain before your skill”. Couldn’t have said it better. 🙌
This is a bucket of cold water. Very humbling. This is an awesome video I'll watch it several times for it to sink deeper.
This is BY FAR the best riding advice I’ve ever seen on UA-cam
Congrats man ! Keeep it up !
Semi aggressive defensive driving works for me. Exactly a mentality developed skill over time. You are good sir.
Road strategy, road skills and a mechanically sound bike. You need all 3 legs of the table to be a safe motorcyclist. Great video Greg! ❤
You are so right! Thank you. An instructor in an advanced riding training told me: riding isn't a motor- but a self-defense sport. Once you're skilled enough you can be aware and still releaxed. This awareness makes driving a car in traffic more relaxed and safer as wel.
I’m starting to ride again after 18 years and I needed this video…. Thanks a million
100% agree with this. Being aware of your positioning in traffic, and thinking how others around you act saves you a lot. I stay away from blindspots, I try to predict as much as possible around me.
What I need to work on is patience in certain situations. As example, in most EU countries you’re only allowed to overtake from the left side, so sometimes you’ve left lane huggers, drives me nuts for some reason. Resulting in me overtaking from the right, which a few times resulting in near misses due to people not expecting me to overtake from the right.
I hope you don't mind me putting in my 2 cents, this is just a friendly advice from one biker to another: take a second look at the proper overtaking techniques for bikers because most of the time it's just a 'communication of intent' issue. Real 'huggers' are mercifully rare. Waiting for the opportune moment, not harrassing the car to roll over to the side, using your left blinker to communicate overtaking intent, closing the following distance a little, positioning in line to the left mirror of the car, flashing your high beams to wake them up all help. 90% of the time they just move aside and let you pass. If not, that's somebody you should stay well away anyways. Not a dependable driver. Avoid them however you can. Safe riding!
This was beautiful. Hazard perception, situational awareness and sound judgement maximise joy and minimise stress on a bike.
Almost nothing will ever surprise you and every ride will be a good one.
Avoid fixating on things that catch your eye is another problem I've had to work on. Great advice as always.
Couple years ago it was sooo mentally draining for me to filter traffic, that I would sometimes sit behind cars to rest a bit. I was mostly off road riding so I had good responsive skills. But since last year traffic got so bad due to city construction, and now i filter like a robot. Always going just a bit faster than the cars, always having a sense of how the flow goes and just slightly cheating time. So i just got really happy someone addressed lane splitting being draining that is so true!
Well said words of wisdom. One mindset many riders lack is one of riding with respect to the traffic around them. My job as a medical transportation driver has me going 10 hours and hundreds of miles a day in traffic, and my goal is, just like on my bike, to hit that checkered flag alive at the end of the day with that same attitude. Our traffic system is literally chaos with people trying to make it from point A to point B alive, nobody is perfect, and mistakes WILL be made. The road is not a race track, and after 50 years of riding, I have nothing to prove to anyone, I simply wish to be there for grandchildren. 👍
Greg - I love your down-home approach and easy messaging. Always be aware and skills are absolutely imperative but so is thinking before you act. Brains before skill. Great mantra for the New Year. Stay safe out there. 🫡. 🤜🏼
100% pure wisdom Greg. Thank you.
Here's the thing people: if you apply the exact same philosophy to your entire life you may never again find yourself sad, depressed, whining, irresponsible or somehow unsatisfied. It is our own expectations which determine how we feel and often what happens next: expect anything to go wrong at any time, pre-think about it and be ready, accept life in all its glory, lower your (childish, entitled, ignorant) expectations and life will never disappoint. This is stoicism. Be responsible for your life and learn 🙂
I've been daily commuting on a motorcycle for 2 years now, I'm almost certain that these videos have kept me alive
I like this quotation about ship handling. “An expert shiphandler handles a ship in such a manner that situations requiring expert shiphandling don’t come up.”
Boy scout motorcycling..."BE PREPARED"
Awareness:
1) ...of your surroundings
2)...of your actual riding ability
3)...of the condition of your bike
One of your best videos. Simple but to the point..very important points at that. This was truly informative and motivational 🙏.
I like making bets with myself over whether any certain driver will be an idiot. I usually win, which makes me feel better about someone else being an idiot.
I have been riding bikes since 1979. Maybe I am lucky, but I have never come off or had an accident, and I must have done at least 200,000 miles on a bike in that time. My current bike is a BMWR1250R, which is easy to ride fast. However, the big thing I have learnt is to read and anticipate drivers body/vehicle language. You get a sixth sense. No they are not going to give way, they have not seen you as you are about to overtake, Alo, constantly read the road surface ahead. These skills go into car driving as well, which I do. I am of the opinion the best way to be a top safe car driver is to ride a motorbike as well.
I have been riding since the 90's. Low-sided mine once when I was still a newbie. Didn't break any bones but I lost skin. I learned a valuable lesson that day, and what I have learned over the years agrees with everything you said, especially about a motorcyclist being a better driver. One thing I do when I see someone waiting at a junction is I try to make eye contact with the driver. If I cannot, there's a good chance that driver will start moving.
Perfect. So well said. Judgement over skill. Work on both. Thanks my man!
Agreeing to the max with you.
I do remember my instructor telling me they don’t see you. And I was thinking damn, they are dumbasses. And then one day I was driving my car and I got surprised by a motorcycle…. Damn, he was right, car drivers don’t see me. Not on purpose. Mainly because I’m too small, I’m too fast in my moves, etc….
It changed drastically my way of riding: full alert and as you said expect everything.
My favourite instructor. Good man Greg!
I love your description of how to pay attention and try to predict the worst move everyone around you could make. I go one tiny step further and tell myself I’ve just won a point in some sort of competition every time I guess correctly the bad moves someone around he’s gonna make. Makes it feel like a video game with threats coming 360°. People commonly ask me why I write a motorcycle on the busy dangerous streets and tell them it’s actually fun to ride this way. We don’t have to be going fast to have fun. I agree with you.
Thank you for teaching the community willing to listen.
We appreciate you and your ability to translate years of learning into something most of us can digest easily.
Good advice. Also, my thought while riding towards a potentially dangerous situation is, "what do I need to do to make sure that I get home safe and can ride again tomorrow"
Oh yeahhh I like all this simplified straight forward tutorial...motojitsu tutorial is just getting so much better. Possibly the best in UA-cam if this keeps going.
Love your videos - and this is the best yet ! 100% agree - anticipation (and preparation) is the foundation to safe riding. Keep up the great videos.
Amen brother. Great video. Going fast is easy. Braking is hard. Practice the hard stuff. It will make your life easy.
👍🏼
I've been teaching drivers ed to high school students for several years and in the first lesson we introduce a SPIDE method of driving. S - keep your eyes moving constantly; I - identify signs, signals and hazardous that may require a decision to reduce the risk of a crash, P - predict worst case scenario that could happen; D - decide what you will do if that happens; E - execute your plan if needed. I use this method while driving/riding all the time. So far, it has been working for me.
That's Lee Parks' acronym for street riding in his Beginner Rider Clinic, so maybe you learned it from there but you could be hit with a copyright infringement thing if you're not saying who it's from.
Greg, you really nailed it! Even in the Total Control Beginner Rider Clinic, an expert rider is described as one who uses expert judgment to avoid having to use expert (or crash avoidance) skills. Bottom line is to ride to keep yourself as safe as possible at all times. Thanks for sharing this!
Brilliant video and advice. Best part: Asume nobody see you and cares about you (defensive riding, but not the same as riding scared)
Great advice, thanks!!
Great video! Thanks! We need more of this.
I will share this important video to all my riding community chat groups. A simple video like this will save lives. Thanks, Man…👍🏽👍🏽
Good words. Going thru intersections in the right lane and beside a vehicle can protect you from that drunk left turner. Intersections are the worst, need to be hyper vigilant at every one of them. Cheers!
Well-said and a great mental model, especially the part about "what if I told you in two weeks a car would pull out in front of you going 50mph". You've got two weeks to train to be ready. Great hypothetical, like every other hypothetical we should be training for. I have a short list of them I maintain to train on every time I am out. Makes me much more capable and confident and keeps my skills refreshed.
Superb advice. A comprehensive `Philosophy of Motorcycling'
I love it! This is how I ride 😊 Why take the risk! I want to ride tomorrow so why not ride in the less risky option available. And, up my skill so I can handle the high risk situation.
When you said if I knew that in two weeks a car would pull in front of me really put me in perspective. Thanks for your videos, I'm sure you are helping a lot of people and you are literally saving lives!
Well said and thanks for the advice.
Now your talking. Best advise I’ve ever heard from a motorcycle expert.
Great advice, thank you.
Wow, thank you Brother!! I pulled many awesome learnings from this video....THANK YOU!!!
You my friend are the most natural, precise, speaking out of knowledge, and so honestly communicative. That even you don't know that. Your body language, visual communication, expressions all collectively make you a great orator. You pass on your knowledge so effectively and successfully. Respect you. I am 5.3 feet, 60 kg, riding a heavy R18. After not riding for 35 years, but did ride a hell lot as teenager. Just had cataract surgery in both eyes. I see all muscle and brain memory from past helping me, although diminished a lot, but still there, such as down shifting and breaking, coming in naturally. That was the biggest skill I had achieved whilst growing and riding in 😂 India. Speaks a lot.
But these were small bikes, Yamaha RD 350. Triumph speed twin 1953, pommy bikes. Now with a combined bike, fuel, rider weight of almost 420kg and 1.8 litres engine. My confidence is totally relied upon anticipating the unexpected, and being forward thinking. I need to watch and practise every single of your videos. Thanks Mate, here from great Southern land of Australia 🇦🇺.
"use your brain before your skills" could become a really nice punch line for MC MJ next musical single!
Thank you for taking the time to make these vids Moto!
Glad you like them!
When I was flight training, they used to say that the superb pilot makes superb decisions so he doesn't have to use his superb skills to get him out of trouble.
Great advice. These days I'm a lot more aware of everything going on around me when I'm riding. Also, If I need to change lanes, I make visual contact with drivers in the lane I'm trying to get into. On several occasions the drivers will back off and make room for me.
Great advice, as always!
Most realistic video ever.Thank you
I don't remember when it came to me, but the day I decided that I should ride like everybody was out to kill me, my thinking improved and I learned to improve my skills. Because of those two changes I was rarely surprised by anything.
Good information, MJ.
4:51 two most important skills to practice:
1. emergency breaking
2. quick swerving
(3. learn not to do both at the same time)
Judgment before skill, then yes, those two skills
You can have this mindset on a bike and/or in a car. Nice.
The only surprise you can afford on a bike is getting home and realizing no one you encountered on the road made a mistake that endangered you.
Great video. Absolutely agree.
Always good advice!
Excellent video, and will save lives!
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Thanks!
I have been riding a motorcycle since the 90's. When I am on a motorcycle, I always assume every driver left his/her brain at home and couldn't less about a motorcyclist's right-of-way. I have avoided quite a few unpleasant situations with this attitude. At the same time, I believe I am a better driver (in a car) because I ride a motorcycle.
Thank you to information about the motor matic injeksi
I think about these things all the time whenever a rider (or driver) complains about bad things happening.
Every time, without exception, if you go back through the sequence of decisions that led to said "accident" there's a very stupid one being made. Which they very conveniently left out when retelling the event.
Even the classic cases which some assume to be exceptions to this, like someone ignoring a red light, or kids and dogs jumping into the street, the reality is that if you're not able to see what's happening ahead of you, you should not be advancing, period. Assuming you can assume stuff because things are usually OK is the problem.
Great advice. 😊
This video is the best advice for a motorcyclist. Expect the worst and keep safe.
Bloody great vid 👌
thank you sir for sharing your wisdom and techniques to make us secured and safe love you handsom gentle man always your FAN
Situational Awareness. #ONE Skill indeed. This is what fighter pilots NEED in order to fly a jet. (No ticky...no shirty) 😂 No SA, no flying...
Without SA, your head is up the proverbial arse... not Seeing, hearing, feeling what is ALL going on around you as a rider and or driver.
Without Awareness, both situational and self- everything else does not matter. 👍
HE'S TALKING TO YOU OHIO!!!
"Going over the 2×4 perpendicular" is what Ohio recommends.
I find that having a CDL and driving makes me a better rider. My 60 foot long, 14 foot tall 80,000lb vehicle is also completely invisible - and no joke driving the two are more similar than you think.
Great perspective
You could think ... "I'm offended!". Thanks for this. I predicted you'd say best skill is sanity or reason.
I had a situation yesterday turning into a driveway. The entrance was a slight ramp into the drive way. Half of the entrance had dead and rotten branches on it. The other half had visible gravel ontop of the concrete. So i had a choice. Go wider and make a sharp lean turn on concrete that has gravel on it. Or go slower and more upright over the branches to to be in a better position to catch my bike incase of a slide.
I went with option 2 and sure enough my front tire slid out from under me. I ride a KLR 650S so i was already in an upright position. I slammed my clutch AND front brakes to keep my hands from sliding over the controls and whiskey throttling it. Allowing me to put my right foot down and keep the bike from going over.
A crappy scenario, but i chose the safer option over the more dangerous one. Sometimes there is no "right" choice. No i couldn't out right stop in the road due to a tail gating truck that had to swerve any way because i didn't enter the drive way "in time".
Good points.
It's not just that a smart rider goes around a 2 x 4 because they have better foresight. They also have the experience to know many pieces of scrap wood on the roadway fell of loads coming from demo sites, and often have nails sticking out of them...
One I feel needs expanding on is 'emergency swerving'. Yes, if you are about to T-bone another vehicle or even a pedestrian, you better be able to effectively swerve to avoid it. However, if the swerve is not so large and immediate that it's going to be at the limit of your tire's traction ability, I think you can include 'controlled braking' to reduce your speed, and buy you more time to execute the swerve. Yes, not always an option, but if you also include your approach of anticipating such risks, you likely won't find yourself in situations where panic swerving is called for.
The other point - If you believe you don't have the room to swerve to miss the collision, you're better off to brake as much as possible to reduce your speed at collision, than to swerve and hit them at full speed...
100% spot on
Best video you have done i a good while. You are maturing and i think i would really like your mentor .
Ill add that from your age group going forward, it is very important to always be open to, and learning skills, be they physical or mental.
You are doing a great job.
Carry on.
thanks.
Made this video this past Saturday and I hope it gets 10,000,000 views
ua-cam.com/video/dxs0YDmxq80/v-deo.html
EXCELLENT!
Good summary!
Who knew "threat assessment" and "tactics" would apply in any and all circumstances. ;)
Well said
Well put my friend, BRAINSTORMING before hand and think ahead always. Judgement is your best friend I would say.
In addition to what Greg said, all of which I agree with, is that you should have the patience of a saint and to forgive like a siant. Drivers are not perfect, they make mistakes and many are not as good at driving as they ought to be. Nobody is intentionally trying to kill you. Ride with awareness as Greg said, but also give drivers a break and readily forgive them if they somehow interrupt your ride. Be cool.
I simply move on. I don’t get upset about anything on the road
I've avoided death twice in three years by being in the proper escape position behind stopped traffic, always keep clutch engaged and watch the mirrors. I moved to the side of traffic and both vehicles ended up where I was initially sitting. Never stop watching.
Great video; Greg. Sorry if I'm repeating myself: 80% of riding an MC is driving at a Professional Level. If you've had tickets, accidents or memorable, recent close calls in your car; why would you try to ride a MC ?
For the skills: If you can't ride a bicycle ( or even an eBike) on city streets or a mountain-bike on easy, lumpy ground; what are you doing on a MC ?
New goal: be a better masterbraker 😬Thank you for the useful information. I just can't wait to try out my new tires. Woho!
I don’t trust anyone on the road.I always expect the people around me to do something stupid.You can usually pick the drunk driver from miles away,it’s the phone/gps watching,instrument lights up too high,touch screen radio user who are the biggest problem.CONCENTRATE ON DRIVING WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING!!
Hi Greg thank you for an awesome show. Greetings from sunny South Africa East London.😅😅😅
I happen to think that I have both (judgment and skills) but, probably like 20 years ago in school I use neither to the full of my potential.. For example I can predict most of the things that happens on the road, but am I always prepared or most of the time I underestimate the dangers that can come from what I’ve predicted?
Or: I can brake at 200 mt from turn 1 with the rear wheel floatin 5 cm in the air at the local track, but when is the last time I went and practiced panic brakes in the rain or with gravel?
I won’t have a slick, warm tyre next time a Karen will pull up in front of me..
thank you for making me actively think of those things
The GS looks so good 🔥 😮
Excellent advice! most of us, me included, don't practice emergency braking often enough. If you ride knobbies like I do, it is far more unstable under emergency braking conditions. Attitude is everything . Like pilot training, you are never too good to learn or practice.
Whatever your bike or tires, practice!!!
Great video.
I remember some while ago suggesting to you about the book Roadcraft the British Police riders handbook and you were quite dismissive about the book and asking why do Brits always mention this handbook, well what you are talking about here in this video is basically what Roadcraft is all about
Yup
Don’t need to be paranoid.
Need to be aware of and respect the risks involved and be wary cuz stupid , distracted etc is everywhere sadly