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They’re great courses and
I implore everyone to learn
Email ride@ride.co.uk first aid. Sadly I think it’ll
always be hard to attract
Write to us RiDE, Media House, younger riders to do courses
Lynchwood, Peterborough PE2 6EA
like this. By the way, we’ve
reviewed a great mini biking
first-aid kit on p75. It’s only
£15 but could be a real help
in a smash. MW

LETTER OF THE MONTH ‘It’s all about the eye
‘RiDE’s bench Loving Ryan’s work in Ask
The Riding Coach and
isn’t a TRUE following on from his subject
of car SMIDSYs at junctions,
long-term test! in addition to the physical

structure of a car (wide A
and B-pillars stuffed with
After reading the long-term test in the July airbags behind which we
issue about editor Matt’s 15-year-old disappear), that 0.6 seconds
workbench, I thought I’d show you this average scan time for a
Snap-On tool chest l bought in 1965 during driver is crucial.
my apprenticeship. It’s followed me to Visual processing is a
every workplace l have been to and also ü Roland’s time- fascinating subject which
done lots of hard work in the Seventies served tool chest is continues to reveal
when l was racing sidecars. Now retired, older than the average surprises. The known aspect
age of a RiDE reader!
like me, to my small workshop at home, it of saccades, where visual
is still in use keeping my Honda and Enfield processing is actually
in good order. I have been riding nearly 60 inhibited during eye
years and that tool chest is 57 years-old That’s superb Roland and looks like it movement, means that we
and showing a little wear — but so am l. could last another 57 years as well. effectively spend up to 15%
Regards to all the team. Products ed Jim has the same topbox but of our waking day blind.
Roland Stevens it’s a young ‘un, at just 31 years old. MW This is compounded by the
recent discovery that the
process of seeing the world

RIDE’S STAR LETTER is now thought to work in the
WINS AN OXFORD opposite sense to that which
MINT CLEANING was previously accepted. We
BUNDLE WORTH £35 don’t see everything and try
The MINT range is split into to make sense of it; rather,
CLEAN, DETAIL, MAINTAIN and we already have a pre-
we’re kicking off CLEANING. formed mental model of what
www.oxfordproducts.com we are expecting, and then
process the differences
between that and the outside
‘All riders should world to build a (supposedly)
learn first aid’ ‘full’ picture.

Being an older biker, I thought The final killer for two-
it time to enrol on a Biker wheelers is spatial bias. This
Down morning course, new area of research
though course isn’t the best suggests that, as
word. It’s an informative westerners, we are
session, learning how to help conditioned to look left first
and perhaps save another because that’s where we
biker who’s had a spill. start reading anything. Not
Anyway, I wasn’t surprised such an issue in countries
the class of 20 had mostly where they drive on the right
middle-aged riders, to ones Biker Down course is but a potential problem here
almost past adulthood, if you essential first-aid that in the UK. How many times
all bikers should know
get my drift. No younger have you seen a car cruise
members of the hobby up to a junction and you are
attended yet surely, they hours could save a biker’s life way of getting a blanket looking at the back of the
need teaching as much as we so wouldn’t it be of benefit to cover on first aid in our driver’s head? In Arabic-
mature riders. add it to the riding test? It biking community? reading countries, the
What I learned in three seems it might be the only Andy Jones opposite is thought to be

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