Reddit reviews Motorcycle Roadcraft: The Police Rider's Guide to Better Motorcycling

IMHO, you combat fear with experience, knowledge, and/or training. Try one or all of these to develop your defensive riding skills:

a) The DVSA publish a riders handbook. Read it cover to cover if you haven't already.

b) Contact your local rider training school and ask for some one to one training (at a guess this will be about £100-150 a day).

c) After I passed my car driving test, I was given a paper copy of the Police Driver's Handbook by a relative. Not sure if there's a motorbike version of it, but I'd be surprised if there isn't.

(Ninja) edit: Yes there is. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motorcycle-Roadcraft-Police-Handbook-Motorcycling/dp/011341143X

https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/shop/motorbike (has both books)

Oh god. Do yourself a solid and throw that piece of shit new edition of roadcraft away and get yourself a copy of the old one while you still can!

That new edition is terrible. Whichever committee of idiots put it together wrote the car version, patted themselves on the back, then did a find/replace to turn car into motorcycle. It's SO bad.

Dull but worth reading: Motorcycle Roadcraft

I would advice you take some time to practice in a quiet car park, get as familiar as possible with the controls and how to control the bike at slow speed, make sure you are 100% confident
In the meantime make sure you know the highway code to a good level, this is a good book to read, look for youtube videos explaining good roadcraft, check out rnickeymouse's channel and learn the common reasons people crash on corners, treat every other driver as a complete idiot who is trying to kill you, stay relaxed, dont tense up especially not your arms and upper body, learn from your mistakes before your run out of luck and you should be fine

Great bike ;)
As well as Twist of the Wrist - very good read, I'd also suggest you also read "Motorcycle Roadcraft: The Police Rider's Handbook". Not so much "how to get round corners faster", more "how to survive".

Enjoy the bike, I enjoy mine.

Bare in mind I've only done the ERS and an evaluation ride for IAM, so maybe someone who has been on these courses can give a better answer, but...

A little above ERS, but below IAM/RoSPA.

ERS to me was like an extra after passing, Pass Plus style. I enjoyed it and learnt from it, but it did feel like hooning around the countryside with mate a times ( not saying that's a bad thing, but if you are paying for a course you might think so ).

The thing with ERS, is it's being done by police riders who you'd like to hope are expect to have some of the highest standard of riding.

Bike Safe, IAM and RoSPA all seem to have their grounding in "THE SYSTEM" ( say it like you are in a cold war thriller ). Which comes from the Police Rider's Handbook, which basically lays a ground work of how you should be riding when it comes to reading the road, hazards, etc ( IPSGA )

For me, at £45 it's worth a punt. I know it won't make my insurance cheaper (fucking Hastings Direct), but if I can come away with a little more knowledge then it's all good.

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Highly recommend Roadcraft and TOTW2 as mentioned above.