How do you practice the offset weave?

[Skier]

You can also get a couple of cans of tennis balls, cut them in half with a knife and spraypaint half of them bright, safety-orange so you can train yourself to go left on one color and right on the other.

Don't forget to keep your eyes up. If you look at the cones, you'll hit them.

[Damian]

When I finished the MSF, they gave us booklets with suggested drills to practice in an empty parking lot. The booklet suggested plastic coke or water bottles with sand in them to weigh them down to use as cones. I'd stay away from metal cans because...well you know.

Spray painting them as suggested above is a good idea so you can see them better with your peripheral vision, instead of looking at them.

[CajunBass]

I found that flattened out coke cans worked fine. So did chalk marks on the pavement.

[ofblong]

I find that I get bored sometimes when I have to slow down on roads so I begin the "drunken" weave . Thus pretending there are cones .

[BlueBomber]

here's some good ones! Similar to the ones the MSF guys used when I went.

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/produ ... 9196076092

I'll go get my MSF book as what it says for distances...

*goes and looks*

I can't find it. I apologize.

But those cones are pretty sweet.

\/\/

[wickedrider]

Coke cans, toy stores, sporting goods stores. How non-creative and non thoughtful am I. No wonder I couldn't think of fun games w/o props when I was a kid.

[Lion_Lady]

Go to Walmart and in the sporting goods section you'll find these dinner plate size FLAT FLEXIBLE cones, used for soccer practice I think. Come in packages of 3 for like $4. If you run over them it won't skip your bike sideways, like the Home Depot cones will.

We've also got a bag full old tennis balls sawed in half. THEY were FREE from a tennis club but we had to saw them ourselves, kind of a PITA.

P

[CajunBass]

I'll go get my MSF book as what it says for distances...

*goes and looks*

I can't find it. I apologize.

But those cones are pretty sweet.

\/\/

I don't know how far apart MSF puts them, but for the Virginia DMV test, they're ten feet apart with a two foot offset.

[Shorts]

Go to Walmart and in the sporting goods section you'll find these dinner plate size FLAT FLEXIBLE cones, used for soccer practice I think. Come in packages of 3 for like $4. If you run over them it won't skip your bike sideways, like the Home Depot cones will.

We've also got a bag full old tennis balls sawed in half. THEY were FREE from a tennis club but we had to saw them ourselves, kind of a PITA.

P

Those are exactly the kind we picked up. They have a spiral design cut into them, so des ne? (is that right?)

[anarchy]

you can also order the cones from the msf: red or green.