Warwickshire BikeSafe team have been working with Norton Motorcycles to enhance the riding skills of the company’s test engineers. This shows the willingness of Warwickshire Police BikeSafe team to work with motorcycle groups in the motorcycle industry and those that use Motorcycles as part of their work with the aim to impart some extra knowledge […]
Extremely helpful to help judge any actions before I take them Feedback to the Warwickshire Police BikeSafe team: Many thanks to you, Rich & Drew for yesterday’s BikeSafe day, I had a great time. The course was well structured, the right amount of class room information, I found this inspiring as it’s been a while […]
They say training is the best modification you can invest in for your bike It’s a fine, sunny day in early September and I’m riding out to Northamptonshire Police HQ for my BikeSafe workshop. They say training is the best modification you can invest in for your bike. Let’s see. I’m a born-again biker. I […]
I learned to ride on the flat roads around Lincolnshire in the early 80’s and passed my test in August 1988. The test was a very simple figure of eight around the Grantham streets and an emergency stopping exercise. My first ‘proper’ motorcycle was a Yamaha TZ 250 in a very un-PC Camel cigarettes paint […]
I passed my CBT test almost 25 years ago I joined the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Warwickshire BikeSafe course on the 5th Sept 2020 on what turned out to be both a fun and educational day. I passed my CBT test almost 25 years ago and those initial four half-day sessions was the only formal […]
All in all, getting to work using public transport is stressful I live in West London and work in the city as an Administrator. Like many office workers – since March I have worked from home. I am now anticipating what my company will ask me to do as we return to office working. My […]
I can advise that there is now a phased plan to resume workshop delivery. This will be significantly governed by regional Covid-19 restrictions and the impact these restrictions have on our ability to safely resource workshops. Resumption will therefore be phased on a Force-by-Force basis and you will be advised in a timely way regarding […]
Cessation of National BikeSafe workshops Following Monday’s announcement by PM Boris Johnson, with guidance on restricting non-essential travel and engagements, I have taken a national decision to suspend all BikeSafe workshops until the current health crisis has passed. Riders already booked onto workshops will be updated via email and text. Those who are booked on […]
To show their support for International Women’s Day, PC Peter Stone at Gloucestershire Police has organised a free-of-charge WOMEN ONLY BikeSafe event on Sunday 8th March at Completely Motorbikes (Meteor Park, Gloucester). This ‘exclusively for female motorcycle riders’ mini-BikeSafe offers x2 one-hour taster sessions where riders will have the opportunity to experience the value of […]
An essential introduction to advanced skills A few years ago, only months after buying my first bike and still on my Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) ticket, I witnessed the immediate aftermath of a motorcycle accident. That day changed my life. I’d been driving along a beautiful road in North Wales dreaming of one day riding […]