Contents
- DEFINITIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- BEFORE YOU RIDE
- Clothing
- When did I last ride a motorcycle?
- Training
- Track days and off road riding
- OBSERVATION
- Forward observation
- Rear observation
- S.T.U.D.D.
- S.T.U.D.D. explained
- POSITIONING
- Junctions
- Roundabouts
- The distance at which to follow
- Night riding
- Changing Lanes
- Urban riding
- Rural riding
- Wet roads
- Crossing centre lines
- Motorways and dual carriageways
- Avoiding cats eyes
- SIGNALLING
- Timing of signals
- One-way systems and gyratories
- Returning to the nearside
- Changing lanes
- To pull away
- Passing an obstruction
- The brake light
- Signals and roundabouts
- Motorways and dual carriageways
- Sounding the horn
- Arm signals
- Flashing headlight
- SPEED
- The quest for speed
- Acceleration
- Deceleration
- Acceleration sense
- Speed for bends
- Junctions and roundabouts
- Slow speed
- Speed generally
- Squirrels
- GEARS
- Higher gears
- Lower gears
- Changing gear
- Neutral
- OVERTAKING
- Overtaking early
- Opposing drivers flash their headlights or shake their fists?
- Overtaking downhill
- Space for the ace
- Roundabouts
- Filtering
- Overtaking on diagonal stripes and at junctions
- PARKING
- Where to park
- On and off the stand
- Check your bike
- THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU DIDN’T KNOW
- CONTINENTAL RIDING
- Ferries
- General
- Signposting
- Autoroutes
- Motorcycle exemptions
- CONCLUSION
- INDEX
Copyright © Dave Jones 2006