| Most police forces are running very cheap observed riding courses, the scheme is called bike safe and I believe there is a link at motorcycle.co.uk.
Annette had the benifit of riding with 2 police riders(off duty) when she first passed her test and they developed her road riding skills, she is now a quick and very safe rider.
A quick sumary is 1, use all the availiable road to improve your field of view, 2, always go as fast as you can see (never go faster than you can see to stop in an emergency), 3 treat all other road users as homicidle blind nutters, 4 ALWAYS listen to the little voice in you head that says somethings not right, your subconcious may have noticed something important.
Finaly observe 30 mph strictly, all 40/50 limits strictly in built up areas less so on open roads and finaly when you see the national speed limit sign, GLF is the phrase we were told which translates to go like f***
Congatulations and ride safely
dave and annette |