Left or right

[Horse]

How fast would you have to be going where you're going to run wide on a modern bike?

If the rider doesn't know how to make it turn tighter, and trust the bike can do it, it's all too easy.

[The Spin Doctor]

Usually left handers. I assume because of the camber and/or lack of kerb/verge. On the latter point I've always had some difficulty with the hug-the-verge expectation of 'advanced' training on right-handers.

Which is one reason on my courses I don't get riders to 'hug the verge'.

They end up spending more time worrying about where their wheels are than they do about the upcoming hazards.

Ride in a position that suits YOU, not the examiner (Except on test, of course). Moving a metre out barely impacts the view ahead.

It's surprising how liberated a lot of IAMers and RoSPA riders have felt when I've told them that!

[The Spin Doctor]

How fast would you have to be going where you're going to run wide on a modern bike?

If the rider doesn't know how to make it turn tighter, and trust the bike can do it, it's all too easy.

Agreed.

Once unsettled, it's scarily hard to make the necessary corrections whatever the bike capable of. Many easily avoidable crashes happen at surprisingly modest speed to riders who'd normally get round that radius bend in their stride.

It's usually set off by not planning early enough - then braking ineffectively or too late, running-in too fast, turning-in too early, running wide later... it's the classic cornering crash clusterf*ck combo.