How Jeremy Scully Levelled Up His Ride Craft
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00:00My name is Jeremy Scully. I've been riding for 32 years.
00:07It's freedom, calm, there's no better feeling than jumping on your bike and just riding
00:18to anywhere and just enjoying the moment. I remember just hitting the car and just flying
00:27over the top, but hit the deck and tumbled around a bit and then went to get myself back
00:31up and realised my foot wasn't pointing the right direction.
00:36Hey Jether, bit of a tough place to visit mate. Tell us a bit about it, what happened here behind
00:40us. I'm Toby Price, two-time winner of Dakar Rally, training off-road champion and also
00:46world champion. I came out of a driveway to go through the intersection. As I accelerated,
00:53I looked up and realised there was a car coming straight towards me. You just freeze in the
00:57moment and it happens so quickly. Yeah, it's a tough one. I've spent a lot of time on the road
01:02myself and there's so many things out of your control in an area like this. I think you learn
01:08the most that the safety equipment is a critical part of riding a motorcycle on the road. I
01:14definitely levelled up on the rider apparel. New jeans, new jacket, new helmet, new gloves,
01:19new boots for the biggest one, obviously being my foot. Made sure I got the best thing that's
01:23going to look after me. Alright Jether, we've been back to the crash site and visited there.
01:32What have you changed since you've now been back on a bike and riding? Definitely my ride craft
01:37has levelled up. Just being more aware of my surroundings and just checking out what
01:42everyone's doing around you, especially coming up to an intersection, just trying to read what
01:46every car is doing. It's opening that peripheral vision a little bit more now and just being aware
01:50of every vehicle that's on the road. You've had multiple crashes throughout your career.
01:55How has that changed your approach to riding? Yeah, it's difficult. It's always in the back
02:00of your mind. You sit there and you learn from that process of what happened and what you can
02:05improve and just one of them things, time heals everything and it's just trying to enjoy being
02:12back on a motorcycle and back out on the road again. It's good to talk to a professional and
02:19see what they've gone through and just enjoying every moment of being back on the road riding again.