When you are riding many senses function to provide feedback on what is happening and to help you control the motorcycle.
 Ophthalmic feedback is one of the most important safety inputs you will use during a ride.
 What you see is what you will get.
It is easy to understand that visual cues or references help you find out where you are, where you are going, and control of speed as you Learn to Ride a Motorcycle.
 You see things as you ride which provide the main data stream for your use and decisions.
If you follow a motorcycle down the road for a while, it becomes easy to evaluate the skill level of the rider.
 You will see the handling of the bike when ridden, how controlled at stoplights, and how the rider changes lanes.
    Situational awareness is a key safety item for a rider.
 You need to know at all time where all vehicles are surrounding your travel.
 What vehicles are behind you and how far? What vehicles in the lane next to you and what speed are they traveling?  Motorcycles have mirrors so we think I will just look in that before changing lanes.
 Wrong, wrong, wrong, a mirror allows you to see if anything is in your teeth.
 No matter how large a mirror its field of view is too restrictive to assure safety in riding.
The only visual cue adequate for changing lanes properly is a proper performed head check.
 Turn your head around, look at the lane of interest, and look further back in the lane to see all possible vehicles.
 Let this ophthalmic flow flood you with information on when, if or how to make a lane change.
  Let the eyes help with another safety tip.
 A motorcycle follows your vision almost to a fault.
 Try it sometime.
 Stare at a paper cup on your path of travel and no matter what you do you will run over the cup.
 If your eyes lock on something that is not where you want to go, break the eye lock.
  When you are bending a curve at the correct speed, in good control you want to look through the curve.
 Staring at the sides of the road on the inside or outside travel will assure you go there.
 If there are posts marking the curve do not let, your eyes lock on one of them or you will join the post in an unpleasant way.