Expectations due to better abilites and infrastructure Less patience as I grow older and less enamoured with inexperience and foolishness
Hit many of my buttons.
I also admit that driving an Aero with dual sidepipes is wonderful in a clear open area but awkward as hell sometimes (passing horses, speed humps in built up areas at night, passing a queue with open throttles) so I choose not open the throttles.
I always have to remind myself that the roads a shared resource to allow travel by all.
Also that whilst a corner may be marked 40mph because that was set when a Morris Minor on bald cross-ply's was used as the benchmark it would probably have only just made it. But today it is more likely that some donkey has dumped diesel on the same bend on a wet day and so my 295/30 shod sport-air suspended uber-sofa is still going to dance on ice just before sucking ditch. Track days/hill climbs/autocross are a good thing to let the inner loony out as long as the loonies are evenly matched and all pointing the same way.
Well said Alistair..............diesel, bends, roundabouts and motorcycles never mixed. Whilst the quality of tarmac used these days has improved over the past, I still find the road craft I learnt from riding a motorcycle before a car eg the first rains after a period of weeks of summer dryness leads to slippy roads is lost on many young drivers.......eg .as the number of motorway accidents increase as more people travel in autumn darkness till they learn to acclimatise!
It may help younger drivers if they were required to ride a motorcycle before a driving a car, to develop their road craft.
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