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Terse and sweet. Motorcycling indeed is a full time sensory overload which keeps you on your toes.

Here in Italy I have seen people overtake us on autostradas at 250+ , while we were in the middle lane at 140. i have also seen cars cutting *diagonally* across several lanes in a fashion which I have never even seen in India! I feel that we have to concerntrate a lor more on riding and not crashing here in Italy than in India!Primarily because everyone is riding / driving fast and the reaction time is obviously reduced.

But that 1 error in a million (six sigma) is what causes accidents and thats what we have to always guard against. After all even Rossi cant guarantee he will not fall in the next corner!

Hey Ravee,

Nice and crisp.. And I am glad that you were able to avoid the accident. Everyone has these occasions and one has to remember to ride in a way that allows one to ride for a long time... so taking care is paramount.

How's the Bandit doing?

Very Nice & to point the point write up sir.

great writing captain. this article with the analogy of 6 sigma in the biking world is very true as you have rightly said even one mistake in a million could be fatal......

reading your articles everytime reminds me that I have a lot of time to buy my SBK and dont have to rush things....

Absolutely right; several years ago, I learned through my experience that one should not only ride/drive for himself, but also for others on the road. Your words are conveying to the point.

Riding on the roads (doesn't matter which country) should be as carefull as moves on the chess board. You don't know who will come from which lane and hit you. There are always avoidable and ub-avoidable circumstances on roads that can be fatal. So we must take care of avoidable and must keep looking around to keep our reflexes ready for un-avoidable circumstances.

Some examples of avoidable circumstances:

1. Sudden change in lane of other rider/driver: keep your reflexes ready for the surprises
2. Jumping of humans and animals on the roads from footpath: Keep your eyes radar wide to capture the far and wide range of the road.
3. Sudden braking by other in front: keep proper distance and good condition brakes.
4. Road conditions: Drive slow and be carefull
5. Balled tryre treads: Keep the correct tyre pressure and condition
6. vehicle coming from behind faster than you: keep the rear view mirrors open and practice yourself to look into them.
7. Roadbloack on the other side of the Corner in hills: Entering fat in the corner is not the key, but quiting the corner safe is the key. So, first hit your apex and make your exit view clear and then accelerate.


Some of the Un-avoidable circumstance:

1. Sudden land slide in hills: It will not be so sudden that you can't even see it happening, so keep your eyes open and reflexes ready to act
2. Sudden flat tyre because of x reason:: God bless! well hold the stearing tight and never let the machine ride/drive on it's own. Hold the handle as if taming a horse.
3. There could be many more such unavoidable circumstances, so just make sure you don't put yourself on ease and let your guardian angel ride your machine alone....


God bless to all! and wish all of us to ride long and healthy....