Motorcycle Radar Won't Save You — Rider Skill Will
This year the industry decided your motorcycle should think for you. Adaptive cruise that holds your following distance. Blind-spot radar that lights up the mirror. Rear-collision alerts. BMW, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ducati, and KTM are building it into their higher-end bikes, and Chigee will now bolt a £199 radar onto almost anything you already own. The pitch is always the same word: safety. I've put more than a million miles down in the saddle and spent a good chunk of my life teaching new riders. So here's the part the brochure won't print: a sensor is not a skill, and a radar can't ride the bike for you. Start with the physics, because that's where car logic falls apart. A car wraps the occupant in a steel box, straps them down, and stays upright on its own. A motorcycle does none of that. It stays up because you keep it up — throttle, lean, counter-steer, your weight, your eyes. That's why "rider assist" and "driver assist" are not th...
