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Emily Gilbert almost came a cropper on her Yamaha V-Star 650 but attributes participating in a road safety course to saving her.
If it had not been for a motorbike safety riding course Emily Gilbert believes she would have been a goner. The Timaru woman says lessons of riding in a staggered formation when in a large bunch and being aware of her surroundings a few months previously, meant she had slowed well in advance for the turn off State Highway 1 towards Waimate recently. “I knew I had other riders close behind me, I looked in my mirror and realised the bike behind was coming up fast. Again my following distance meant I could accelerate to get out of his way, to give him more stopping room,’’ Gilbert said.