Bike Safe

jaket · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:31

All,

Take a look at 'Bike Safe', it is designed to help you be a better motorbike rider, called defensive riding. Costs £50 in sussex, which is held once a month from Lewes HQs. Will reduce your insurance too!!!

http://www.bikesafe.co.uk/

GingerNinja1989 · 7 Jul 2009 at 20:56

Advert much?

ShakenNstirred · 7 Jul 2009 at 22:46

treat everyone else on the roads as idiots in tin cans that are out to kill you lol
worked for me the past 27 years

jaket · 8 Jul 2009 at 01:38

ShakenNstirred said:
treat everyone else on the roads as idiots in tin cans that are out to kill you lol
worked for me the past 27 years

The way I look at the road in a car and on a bike.... but this is mainly to reduce insurance which is handy.

Busa · 8 Jul 2009 at 07:25

ShakenNstirred said:
treat everyone else on the roads as idiots in tin cans that are out to kill you lol
worked for me the past 27 years

This......but i trump you're 27 years with my 29

Busa · 8 Jul 2009 at 07:27

jaket said:
The way I look at the road in a car and on a bike.... but this is mainly to reduce insurance which is handy.

My insurance cant get any cheaper...£78 tpft...suzuki Hayabusa :rolleyes:

ShakenNstirred · 8 Jul 2009 at 12:47

Busa said:
This......but i trump you're 27 years with my 29

i got on the road late, being 19, i had off road bikes and couldn't afford both at the time.
im glad really as i lost a lot of friends from 16 to 20 to bike crashes on the road though idiot car drivers and in some cases them being inexperienced with riding the fast 250`s of the day, x7`s mainly(which were a bit lively when tuned)

rsatd · 8 Jul 2009 at 12:51

Busa said:
My insurance cant get any cheaper...£78 tpft...suzuki Hayabusa

Do want!

Busa · 8 Jul 2009 at 14:09

ShakenNstirred said:
i got on the road late, being 19, i had off road bikes and couldn't afford both at the time.
im glad really as i lost a lot of friends from 16 to 20 to bike crashes on the road though idiot car drivers and in some cases them being inexperienced with riding the fast 250`s of the day, x7`s mainly(which were a bit lively when tuned)

The Suzuki X7 was my learner bike!..i passed my test on that, RD 250`s were slightly faster though..i blew the crank oil seals on my X7 not long after i passed my test so got rid of it then.

jaket · 8 Jul 2009 at 14:26

Just to put it to light 1 in 3 people die on a motorbike.

Not to scare people but its by idiot car drivers and inexperienced riders trying to push it too the max. Police motorcylists are the safest riders out there and I really wish everyone could do a day with them to just learn how to ride safely. We can all safe we do but do we really....

Busa · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:31

Well 29 years riding bikes and im still here..got all my limbs and everything....never done a day with the rozzers though and i dont think i shall bother now.

rsatd · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:39

Seriously cannot imagine that a weekend (I think most bike safe courses last for the weekend) will teach you that much outside a bit more common sense. But it does help to lower your insurance premiums though which new riders get.

Flukester · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:42

tbh I think the only thing that makes you ride with awareness and defensively is the first time some nutter t-bones you at a junction, hurts like hell and after a 2nd time you never take visibility of yourself for granted again EVER.

i think the 2nd time it happened to me, coming on 20 years back changed the way I behaved around traffic for good

maybe BikeSafe can help drill it home, but until you experience a collision first hand your brain just isn't in the zone..

atpbx · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:45

rsatd said:
Seriously cannot imagine that a weekend (I think most bike safe courses last for the weekend) will teach you that much outside a bit more common sense. But it does help to lower your insurance premiums though which new riders get.

Thats great, but it will take 10 odd years for me to recoup that money, and it wont create some force field around me thats stops some dozy tart knocking me off on a junction, so I shant bother.

rsatd · 8 Jul 2009 at 15:45

Flukester said:
tbh I think the only thing that makes you ride with awareness and defensively is the first time some nutter t-bones you at a junction

Mine was on a round about, now I am deathly afraid of all women on the road

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@atpbx

new and some, never said it was a godly thing, haven't done one myself

Cookie-Monster · 8 Jul 2009 at 17:10

jaket said:
Just to put it to light 1 in 3 people die on a motorbike.

Not to scare people but its by idiot car drivers and inexperienced riders trying to push it too the max. Police motorcylists are the safest riders out there and I really wish everyone could do a day with them to just learn how to ride safely. We can all safe we do but do we really....

can you put that into context as I reckon 9 out of 10 people die of old age, so unless a large number die of old age while on a motorbike then 1 in 3 people cant die on a motorbike?

Barry Smalley · 8 Jul 2009 at 19:42

GingerNinja1989 said:
Advert much?

Went to school much? :rolleyes:

To be honest I think some of you are being a tad harsh. The lad is only trying to be helpful and make some members aware of the bikesafe course that the Police run. No one on here who rides a bike is anywhere near as skilled as a police motorcyclist and some advice, tips or a just a bit of polishing up your roadcraft is no bad thing.

The_Abyss · 8 Jul 2009 at 19:46

Cookie-Monster said:
can you put that into context as I reckon 9 out of 10 people die of old age, so unless a large number die of old age while on a motorbike then 1 in 3 people cant die on a motorbike?

Clearly 6/10 people die of old age on a motorbike!

Busa · 8 Jul 2009 at 20:08

Barry Smalley said:
Went to school much?

To be honest I think some of you are being a tad harsh. The lad is only trying to be helpful and make some members aware of the bikesafe course that the Police run. No one on here who rides a bike is anywhere near as skilled as a police motorcyclist and some advice, tips or a just a bit of polishing up your roadcraft is no bad thing.

How do you know that none of us is anywhere near as skilled as a police motorcyclist?

Flukester · 8 Jul 2009 at 20:39

Busa said:
How do you know that none of us is anywhere near as skilled as a police motorcyclist?

exactly, I've followed a bike copper whos riding skills were shocking... a lot of bike cops sign up having never ridden a bike and are not experienced by a very long way