Pass The Bike Test (and be a great rider too!)

Description

Your real-world survival guide to a great first year in biking. Complete advice from a top UK trainer, all 900 theory test questions and crucial skills for high-speed riding. 'Pass The Bike Test (and be a great rider too!)' is the nearest thing to a wise, friendly, experienced voice in your ear as you take your first steps in motorcycling. It looks after you from your first go at clutch control, through the tension of the test, to the completion of your first full year as a qualified rider.

This unique book was born out of a survey in 'Bike' magazine initiated by journalist Rupert Paul and trainer Sean Hayes. The standard of training in the UK varies enormously, and the results confirmed that many riders were poorly served by the people who were supposed to be teaching them survival skills for life. In the first chapter Sean and Rupert show you how to pick the best possible trainer. Make no mistake, this book is designed to get you through the test and the authors know just how to do that. But they also believe that riding is about unbelievable fun for life.

It is the first beginner s book that follows through with this promise. With Pass the Bike Test (and be a great rider too!) you can: master all the manoeuvres in CBT and the new test; discover what your examiner is really thinking; practice all 900 Theory Test questions It could also save your life with crucial information the test (and other test books) don t cover: how accidents happen and how to avoid them; how to filter through traffic, go round corners quickly, use the brakes properly and keep on improving!

Synopsis

A real world survival guide to your first year in biking. It includes complete advise from a top UK trainer, as well as the 900 theory test questions and crucial skills for high-speed riding.

About the Authors

Sean Hayes was taught to ride in 1991. An experience he is able to recall in great detail, not with fondness but due to the fact that the standards and attiude displayed fell far short of his expectations. He s not picky or difficult, but as a client, he wanted to be shown how to ride a motorbike - not just pass a test. Flabbergasted at the incompetence of the instructors, yet encouraged by the enthusiasm of fellow pupils, Sean decided to look at how motorcycle training could meet the expectations of new riders. He launched Circuit Based Training at Donington Park in 1997.

The structured training approach, coupled with the ability to let people learn in a safe environment before continuing on public roads, was an instant hit and attracts clients from all over the UK and abroad. Since 2001, the training has continued at Mallory Park in Leicestershire and Sean has been an active voice for new riders in persuading the Driving Standards Agency to improve training to keep pace with the continued developments in motorcycle performance. Having taught thousands of new and established riders for over a decade and listened every week to the needs and fears of every rider, Sean is in a unique position of driving forward motorcycle training in the UK.

Rupert Paul started riding in 1978, and immediately formed a disastrous addiction to cantankerous, unreliable Italian motorcycles which lasted until 1985, when he joined Performance Bikes as a road tester/dogsbody. In the intervening years he has edited four motorcycle magazines, and ridden everything from 1920s flat-tankers to MotoGP bikes. He recently got a Triumph 675 to do 159mph on home-brewed apple alcohol made by A-level chemistry students.

Rupert has long been fascinated by the art of riding a bike well. As editor of Performance Bikes in 1988 he organised the first track day and in the early 1990s grew the concept to a three-day course for 100 riders at a time at the fearsome Nürburgring circuit in Germany. He has written many articles on motorcycle control, rider psychology and riding technique. He is a regular contributor to Bike.

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