Top 5 Mistakes Heavy Bike Riders Make in Traffic (The Japanese Don't)

📘 The Japanese Art of Bike Control – Starts with No More Parking-Lot Panic, for stops and slow traffic: https://yumirides.com/b/ebook/n-g9-v8... 🏍️ Yumi's Japan Ride School Membership – One skill a week by email, with a practice card you can print (7 days free): https://join.yumirides.com/?src=n-g9-... 🎁 Boots on the Boards – Today's lesson on 4 printed pages for your saddlebag, $1: https://yumirides.com/go/regalo?src=n... Business inquiries: business@yumirides.com In slow traffic, a heavy bike usually goes over at walking pace. These are the five traffic habits we were trained to drop in Japan, and the one Japanese word that ties every fix together: • Both boots on the floorboards, with clutch, throttle and rear brake • Riding where you can see the driver's face in the mirror • Stops at red lights with a gap, first gear and eyes on mirrors • Rolling straight for six feet before the bars turn • A two-minute talk with your passenger before the engine starts 0:00 Intro 1:49 Keep boots on boards 5:43 Ride where drivers see 8:30 Stop right at reds 11:28 Roll straight, then turn 20:05 Brief your passenger On your next ride through stop-and-go traffic, keep both boots on the boards until you are fully stopped, and at every red light watch your mirrors instead of the light. Then write in the comments which part was harder for you, the BOOTS or the MIRRORS. Yumi #motorcycletraffic #slowspeedriding #motorcycleriding #yumisjapanrideschool