The Ride

Rider trainers spend a lot of time trying to get people to think about what can be seen, and a significant chunk more time trying to get rid...

I'm horribly aware that I haven't posted anything here for a while, so as a special gift for those of you receiving this via RSS rat...

Yes, it's: National Motorcycle Week, 2009! From 12th - 18th July 2009 With 'Ride to Work Day' on Weds. 15th July. Bit of an unus...

Do you know about this? The High-Visibility Safety Act 2010 More details .

Every now and again I'll post up an 'I have seen . . . ' thread. Today is different. My wife has seen . . . . . . Someone asle...

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Do you remember the old 'Blue Book' definition of 'hazards', from before DSA altered 'hazard' into 'ignore' ...

As I closed up to the bike park . . . my eyes behold an eerie sight . . . A rocket-assisted BMW GS! What was this machine? Had Bond's ...

It's long been known that traffic cones and trolleys, when able to escape from their usual habitats, will go feral. But now, recently si...

Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience ...

Good teaching (or training, if you prefer) often boils down to the same format whatever the context. West Berkshire Council have just prodic...

People who wear rose-colored glasses see more, study shows A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood li...

Out of sight, out of mind? Not really By playing a trick on the brain, neuroscientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research ha...

I've been riding BMWs since my mid-20s . . . some sort of premature ageing, I suppose ;) First an R65, then R100RT, before I moved onto ...

Tiny eye motions help us find where Waldo is To recognize faces in a crowd, the brain employs tiny eye movements called saccades and microsa...