Quote Originally Posted by jesse4846
doesnt it make more sense to be able to steer the car instead of downshifting? i mean, if it really comes down to it, just push in the clutch and coast (or brake, whatever is necessary) past the bike or deer or midget or whatever is in the road. you dont NEED to downshift. when your in a situation where you are actually faced with something you have to avoid, your focus should shift from going fast/making a good time to saving the car, yourself, the midget dancing in the middle of the road, and not having any sort of damage done to either party.

2 hands on the wheel FTW
one point i also want to bring up is on a mountain run.....a bike, car, ped, whatever can be on the otherside

your automatically supposed to slow down to speed where its safe for all. A mtn run isnt a 100% safe thing and its a responsibility of the person participating to be able to evaluate a situation on the fly.

Its not a racetrack where things like random obsticles dont happen so if im going down a pass through a blind turn i will probably be going at 85% of my and the cars ability simply because of what could be on the other side.



This senario would change to 100% if im going over a blind hill at road atlanta. ~ im saying Their wont be a bike staranded for me to hit.