This week I am on duty again on the blood bike. One of the reasons that I am allowed to ride the bike is that I have passed an advanced riding test with the UK's Institute of Advanced Motoring (IAM) and I have also demonstrated to Freewheelers assessor that I am a competent and safe rider. I know that I now see things on the road that I never saw when I was a new rider. As a consequence I am safer and less likely to be involved in an accident. I strongly believe that no matter how good a rider you think you are, there is always room for improvement. You can never have enough rider training.
I was quite interested to see the clip below on YouTube from a UK advanced riding organisation. I already have the full DVD that this clip is taken from and it really helped me to perfect some aspects of my riding. So, no matter how good your are, take just 6 minutes to watch this video. If you like what you see then go and get some advanced training. In the UK you can go to IAM, RoSPA, the guys who shot this video, or someone like Mike Waite (whose DVD is also excellent) and any number of reputable commercial training providers. In the rest of the world I am sure you will have equivalent organisations.
Safe riding!
Posted by Craig Morgan on May 23, 2007 at 01:46 PM BST #
Posted by Mike Belch on May 23, 2007 at 03:41 PM BST #