Hey everybody welcome to Ryder Skills, I'm Neil, this is the channel for more bike safety advice and riding tips. Riding in wet conditions in the rain, I've seen it pop up on a couple of forums, I discovered reddit this week, I don't know what I've been, but anyway, the people are asking how do you ride in the rain? And of course I've been riding a lot of years so I just take it for granted and actually I love, and I've said this before, I love riding in the rain, it sharpens the skills and I've also mentioned previously to ride a motorcycle well you need to use Finesse and be delicate and that's in all conditions, look at the fastest road races in the world, take it to the Alamand and all these riders, the best ones with the smoothest and it's all about riding smooth, picking the best line, not just the best one, but the safest line and the route that will make you less at risk of coming a cropper and it's things like that, you see there, I've missed every white line. Alamand, back to order, do it again here. Now the thing is, you've got two tires, we've gone through this before, contact pouch the size of the palm of your hand, it makes it sound like there's no grip, there's plenty and there's quite a lot in all conditions, as long as you're aware of the limitations of lean angle and traction, but I'm bet, none of us get actually get that close to the limits of our bikes and the capabilities we've got in everyday use, you're tying them on if that's just a put millions of dollars and pounds and dollars and yen into the research of their tires, and you can imagine if their tires are no good and they're proven to be negligent, they're so good and if they're clear that their tires are good in the wet and they all do, and they turn out to be cropped and they're science backs that help, they're shafted, their business is gone, be it done, whop, make sure they're whatever, bridgeston, metzler, so these tires are pretty good on any bike, better than we are, I argue, most of us, just trust in the technology at some stage, you've got to understand that there's a lot gone into your rubber, a lot of technology and it's dang good, so that's the first bit of my little talk about riding in inclement weather conditions. Today is wet, it's stopped raining so it's quite good for the video in relation to not fogging up my lenses, however we still got a slippery surface compared to dry, this is fine, let's do a little bit of filtering, I must need down my gap, I'm not going to do a lot of chatting, tire pressures gone through this before, I've got my digital tire pressure monitor here, impom, get them right, so what do we do on a ride and bend like this, we make sure we're not banking over on white lines because the slippery has el, especially in the wet, I said that before. And everything has to be done, gingerly, what I'm talking about is leaving that twice as much gap in front of you as you normally would and looking ahead, you've got to brake earlier, you've got to like in any situation when you're on your bike, you've got to look ahead, you've got to double it up in the rain, you've got to trust nobody, I'm coming around here, I'm looking around that bend already, I know that the lights are red because I can see the ones going left to right and right to left are green, so I'm already slowing up, I'm already backing the car up behind because these also have less traction, but I'm thinking ahead, I'm reading the potential for people to change lanes in front of me, but at that stage I've hardly touched my brakes and that's what we're talking about, we're talking about just rolling out a little bit more finesse into your riding, but at that point now I'm just going to ease on, so I don't have to brake ahead, I don't want to be braking ahead, everything has got to be smooth and smoother than normal, the situation there, it's watching the e-walls look at the change lanes because this truck was turning right, there we go, I've got red lights in front, I've got nobody behind me, I've got a slippery wet surface, I've got a mud and crap in the curb there, see that, didn't touch the brakes, and I'm not accelerating hard, I'm going to go look at the junction, Mickey show my way ahead, he's clear and safe to go, quick shoulder check the image, I know he's coming out of that slippery road, and onwards.