Improve your car driving - ride a motorcycle

[flyingscot68]

Makes sense to me

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-new ... 23971.html

[j2 lot]

Cant believe some of the comments being made though - apparently we are only safer because bike ownership means we drive less
People just dont get that the survival instinct you need to have on a bike also works in a car so your hazard perception improves It aint rocket science

[flyingscot68]

I hadn't read the comments Keith, some of them are just plain dumb statements from people that obviously know nothing about riding bikes and/or have a chip in their shoulder about them. There's plenty people like that about.

If they can't see why riding a bike can improve your car driving then I doubt they're skilled drivers anyway. Any decent driver I know gets why riding a bike improves your overall driving skills and hazard perception.

[chris_c201]

Done my bike license about 5 years ago now and have always thought that some basic training on a bike would make a massive difference to most people's driving... from basics like lifesavers to little things like road positioning and being more conscious of folks blind spots etc...

Definitely sharpens the senses knowing that right or wrong you'll be the one carted off in the ambulance (or worse!)...

[Shug]

In the interests of balance, I know IAM training does a lot of similar things for the observation skills that getting a bike license does for you. Have heard it a couple of times now, with IAM guys taking their bike test that the observation stuff is roundly similar.

In my case (non-IAM) getting my bike license totally changed my standard of observation in a car. Blind spot checks and paying close attention further ahead is far more of an ingrained skill now, than when I was solely car based. You even get more of a sense of the 'body language' of other cars - if they are paying attention, or likely to do something erratic - that develops pretty quickly when you're on a bike.

[pete]

I taught little Miss Pete to ride on the road (from the age of 5 - I think it is safer than the pavement) I use motorcycle observation rules.

Motorcycle licenses should be separate from car licenses. 140mpoh on the M6 on you bike. No bike for you for a while... But we'll let you drive your car.

Drunk driving. No car for you, but we'll let you ride a scooter - OK so you might keep drinking, fine. You'll crash. Or learn...

[Corranga]

In my case (non-IAM) getting my bike license totally changed my standard of observation in a car. Blind spot checks and paying close attention further ahead is far more of an ingrained skill now, than when I was solely car based. You even get more of a sense of the 'body language' of other cars - if they are paying attention, or likely to do something erratic - that develops pretty quickly when you're on a bike.

Can't agree with this more. After completing CBT, I told everyone that I believed it should be compulsory for all drivers (obviously where able) as it made me a much better driver.
After passing my bike test, I got better still.

Chris

[j2 lot]

I must be a driving God (I wish) -have IAM & bike license