Survival Skills Rider Training e-course

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Survival Skills

e-Course Syllabus

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October 07 16 Oct

WEEK 1

• Your Profile—Getting to know each other
• Hazard Awareness Video—What did you spot?
• Highway Code Quiz—The Rules of the Road
• Stability—Bikes don’t balance naturally, they need help
• Posture—Are we sitting comfortably?

WEEK 2

• Braking Quiz—Before you learn to go, it’s a good idea to know how to stop
• Practical 1—Braking Exercises
• Why do accidents happen?—Minor errors stack up
• Risk Assessment—To ride safely we have to understand risk
• Using speed and direction changes to advantage—Defensive Riding Skills

WEEK 3

• What is a Hazard?—two different ways of thinking about them
• Reacting to the Clues—where to look and what to look for
• Grading hazards for risk i—some familiar accident scenarios
• Practical 2—Identifying hazards
• Grading hazards for risk ii—assessing junction accidents

WEEK 4

• Survival Reactions—when instinct takes over
• Practical 3—simple steering exercises
• Conspicuity Aids—some important questions
• Reading the Signs—using road signs and markings
• Reading the Informal Clues—what else can we see?

WEEK 5

• The Proactive Approach to Riding—not leaving things to chance
• The Safety Bubble—positioning choices
• Practical 4—Safety, Stability, View
• Dead Ground vs the Vanishing Point—what you can see, what you can’t see
• The Vision Line—opening up the view ahead
• Practical 5—Finding the Vision Line

WEEK 6

• Throttle Sense vs Positive Braking—pros and cons
• Advanced Braking Theory—alternative techniques
• Gears—the forgotten link
• Practical 6—gear exercises
• Throttle Control—using the right throttle/gear combination
• Throttle Use in Bends—ensuring optimum machine balance
• Practical 7—throttle exercises

WEEK 7

• Understanding Bends—what are our goals?
• Understanding Bend errors—what goes wrong?
• Machine control and Bends—how it works
• Bends and Lines—pros and cons
• Practical 8—slow, look, lean & roll
• Practical 9—reference points
• Practical 10—thirds
• Putting it together—Point and Squirt
• A complete system for Bends—in table form
• Restraint into a Bend—knowing where to go slow

WEEK 8

• Planned Riding—’tick list’ or ‘holistic’?
• Progress vs Restraint—how close is well judged to “oops”?
• Overtaking—progress or restraint?
• Practicing Skills—how do we get better?
• Conclusions—winding up the course