| - Never attending motorcycle school, track day or off road academy.
- Never actually trying your reserve tank setting on your bike until you do run out of petrol one day - then it is too late if it is blocked or the bottom of your tank is contaminated.
- Allowing your body to push down on the handlebars during heavy braking.
- Looking down when cornering instead of looking up, through and towards your exit point.
- Looking at the pothole in the road instead of looking past it
- Attempting to ride off when you have a disc padlock still in place
- Resting the tip of your riding boot on the rear brake lever when riding
- Leaving petrol in your tank and allowing your motorbike to stand idle for months.
- Stiffening and straightening your arms when you get a fright when riding
- Travelling behind the middle of a motor vehicle instead of to one side (behind the tail lights)
- Allowing yourself to get dehydrated on a long, hot windy trip
- Loosing your temper with border officials when touring
- Realising you have no backup plans / equipment / resources when you break down
- Thinking that your motorbike repair shop will check all fluid levels during a repair
- Pushing the limits during the first ten minutes of riding when your engine and tyres are cold and when your reflexes are not yet in tune with the motorcycle
- During heavy accelerating, hanging onto the handlebars instead of gripping the bike with your legs
- Not maintaining the correct following distance when riding in a group
- Not lubricating your chain and sprockets on a regular basis
- Snapping off the gas and grabbing for the brakes when faced with a bad road surface.
- Expecting your motorbike to stop in the same distance with a pillion passenger as without
- Joining a group for a long country ride without a full tank of petrol
- Buying a pint of oil and dumping the whole can into the sump (in many motorbikes this will overfill the sump)
- Reducing your tyre ( tire ) pressure when riding over a dirt road of sharp stones, rocks, ruts and channels (likely to get a puncture and buckle your wheel rims)
- Seeing exactly the same image in both rear view mirrors
- Blasting straight through an intersection with oncoming vehicles waiting to turn into your path
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