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In this Issue:
1) Survey -- THANKS
2) Launch Date
3) Motorcycle Riding Tip of the Week
4) Forwarding this Tip and Signing Up
Personal Note:
Thanks for taking the time to complete the survey. Over 70% of you responded! Most experts say you're lucky to get 10% of your readers to respond. This goes to show -- the motorcycling community is passionate. Not surprising, most of you said you are "Motorcycle Nuts!"
The 'fill in the blank' questions yielded some great feedback. Thanks for the positive comments. Several of you offered suggestions to make the tips better. I'll share the comments (good and bad) soon.
If you haven't taken the Survey yet (or have no idea what I am talking about, because you just recently signed up for our Riding Tip... it's not too late,
Here's the link to the Survey.
I have received several emails and phone calls asking about when the site is 'going live'. We are putting the final touches together (you might notice some graphics changes already)...
*** LAUNCH DATE May 7th ***As promised, I'm going to offer a limited number of Charter Memberships to help get the forums going, and bugs worked out. I'll give you the exact details in next week's Motorcycle Riding Tip.
David
Motorcycle Riding Tip --
Let Your Buddy Pass WITHOUT Your Help
Here's the scene: you and a riding buddy are off enjoying some challenging roads in the mountains. The generous supply of exhilarating curves and elevation changes conspire to create lots of blind curves and hilltops.
Accordingly, your state's DOT has painted miles of the despised double-yellow stripe, and there are scant places to legally pass the slower car ahead which dares to impede your progress.
When a chance to overtake finally opens up, you're safely around the car in a flash, and naturally want your buddy to keep up with you.
This is where it can turn ugly.
Seeing no traffic, or only a car approaching in the distance, you wave your buddy to come on by, too. He puts his trust in you, and opens the throttle.
I won't list all the things that could go wrong, but the crux is that the environment of the road can change drastically (and instantly) between the time you are where you are and when he arrives there moments later. In addition, his bike and skill set may not be equal to yours.
Your responsibility is to continue on, and let him use his own judgment when the opportunity to overtake is right for him.
If you are using the buddy system, he'll relax, knowing that you'll pause if the road splits so you don't separate.
You can relax, too; it's not a race, is it?
Motoswami
MotorcycleMentor.com™
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Until Next Time,
David Mixson
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