Video transcript for Issues and challenges Issues and challenges

Music playing

(Text on black screen “Biggest challenges when riding.”)

Person 1:

(Man stood behind his bike talking about his experience. Text on bottom of screen “Cornering” Close up on man’s head and shoulders.)

When I’m cornering, something that goes through my mind is ‘Have I set my line correctly for the corner?’

Person 2:

(Man sat talking to camera, bikes in background. Close up of man’s head and shoulders)

Completely judged a corner wrong and ended up very close to the centre line and that’s given me a bit of a fright.

Person 1:

(Close up of man’s head and shoulders talking.)

If you come into a corner too fast, that’s pretty scary.

Person 2:

(Head and should shot of man talking)

I feel my biggest issue with cornering is selecting the wrong speed.

Person 3:

(Man sat on road kerb, zooms in to man talking, zooms back out.)

I didn’t really pay attention to the line I was taking, to slow down and take it at a slower speed. I had no idea that I should be changing from the left side of the road to the right side of the road depending on what type of corner I’m going around.

Person 4:

(Close up of woman holding helmet, talking.)

There’s a lot of things that are unpredictable when going around a corner

Person 5:

(Head and shoulders shot of woman talking.)

When I’m coming up to a corner, I always look out for loose gravel on the road

Person 2:

(Text changes “Uneven surfaces.” Shot of man gesturing as talking. Zooms into head and shoulders, zooms out. Zooms back in.)

There was a decent pile of gravel in the middle of an intersection, and I ended up just skidding out and making a bit of a mess. Manhole covers I hate them, they just slide everywhere and it’s a mess. White lines – I’ve had one accident caused by white lines, tried to brake on a white line and yep, that didn’t work.

Person 4:

(Shot of woman holding helmet, gesturing with other hand as she’s talking. Zooms into woman’s face, zooms back out. Text disappears.)

So uneven surfaces like gravel or petrol on the road or potholes, things like that, you never know how they’re going to make your bike react, and they can come up on you quite suddenly as well.

Person 2:

(Shot of man talking. Text appears “Emergency braking” Zooms in to man’s head and shoulders.)

Emergency stops for me, about after I’ve stuffed up. Trying to fix that.

Person 1:

(Shot of man standing behind his bike, talking. Zooms in to woman’s face.)

So under heavy braking, I’d be worried about locking up the brakes, or maybe losing control because I’m braking too hard.

Person 5:

(Close up shot of woman talking.)

The last time I had to pull an emergency stop was actually on the highway, that was a very close call.

Person 6:

(Shot of woman sitting, gesturing with her hands as she’s talking. Zooms in to woman’s head and shoulders.)

I had to do an emergency stop because a cat ran out in front of me. If you don’t know how to do that, you are going to hurt yourself if you will need to one and you don’t know how.

Person 2:

(Shot of man talking)

You’re constantly on your feet with motorcycling compared to driving a car I guess.

Person 5:

(Close up of woman’s face talking.)

It’s that constant focus.

Person 3:

(Close up of man talking.)

It’s THE key to riding a motorbike, you have to ride it safely so that you can go home to your loved ones.