WIDE-VIEWAWARENESS

We watch racing on the telly in widescreen, and that’s what we need to do when riding!

Riding

WORDS: KEITH CODE IMAGES: CSS

Think 16:9, not 4:3…

THECALIFORNIASUPERBIKESCHOOL

Founded by the legendary Keith Code in 1980, the California Superbike School offers a step-by-step method of technique oriented rider training in the art of cornering motorcycles. Over the past 30 years hundreds of thousands of students have improved their riding skills and cornering capabilities at CSS and their team of professional coaches are dedicated to your improvement.

We rely on our eyes’ natural ability to find reference points to help guide us safely through corners. Given the inherent frailty of our visual system and the confounding nature of our survival instincts, however, sometimes it’s questionable whether that’s enough.

It’s easy to support the argument that our natural tendency to target fixate is any rider’s number one enemy. Target fixation has sucked all of us toward danger instead of away from it at least once or twice in our riding history. Tunnel vision is another closely related enemy of good visual habits. Riders who routinely suffer from tunnel vision risk losing sight of their reference points (RPs) because tunnel vision disengages our peripheral, wide-view awareness of our surroundings.