Letters

MATURE RIDERS

Maynard’s article about us ‘more mature’ riders is very true. I have been saying the same things to my friends and fellow riders just to have them say to me ‘surely not, you have years in you yet’. Maybe so, but my faculties tell me otherwise. To give you some idea, here are things which I have done while riding over the past year.

Corners: approaching right handers a little faster than I thought I have been, drifting a little wide and applying a little more pressure to the rear brake as I trail brake through the bend as I often do – oddly enough this does not happen on left handers.

Gears: on the odd occasions I have been going up instead of down and also knocked the lever into neutral when moving position on the bike to ease my aching bones/muscles during a long ride.

Indicators: I have been forgetting to cancel them after signalling, and also pressing the horn button instead of cancelling the