excellent posts by both of you! thank you!
I haven’t hit the major freeways *yet* too much damn snow/ice at this point to even make it out of the complex… totlaly keeping an eye on this for the next months.
One thing too that someone and I were discussing this week was practicing riding while your driving.
All of these things can be practiced to improve your situationational awareness while you are driving- so instead of just shutting off and getting from point A to point B…. drive proactively- I personally practice onramps and off ramps since we tend to brake through a turn in a vehicle- its habit. I try every time to downshift and deccelerate to a speed to safely negotiate WHAT I CAN SEE… which is annyoing in a truck when I know I can go faster- but I stick to it just for practice and I do my best to never brake through a turn now. Just a little thing to help me when I’m on two wheels.
Being situationally aware takes work and practice- and if you don’t phsycially have to worry about getting run over you can really hone your skills at that by eliminating some outside issues and concentrating on the one thing. I personally find it VERY helpful- but I’m a very visual/hands on person so any extra practice I find to be super helpful lol.