What may be a good companion series is essential bike maintenance to enable better riding. Critical things like suspension, steering head bearings, tyre pressures. Not the race optimising stuff just the basics. You can't be a good rider if your bike has a low rear tyre!!!! Looking forward to this series anyhow!
It's a great idea and one I started discussing at our end after we recorded the last episode in the current series of What Bike Next? Watch this space, as they say. Although, did you catch our Home School series recorded during lockdown: th-cam.com/play/PLEmXSigXaptyEeC5UHP3NMlBX5Uudaryj.html&si=_pMyYPXYiOiOxaqW Cheers, Michael.
@@bennettsbikesocial I have seen some of these, I was rebuilding a TZR 250 from Japanese manuals at that time! However, the pillon/heavy luggage one is something you otherwise would never learn about but from unpleasant experience- great stuff!
Congratulations and welcome to the best club in the world! Great to hear that you’re keen on the content, we’ve already recorded a couple of episodes and I can genuinely say that I’m still learning. Cheers, Michael
I’m looking forward to learning from this series. I’ve been riding 40 years, done the California Superbike school, had one-2-one training from Neil Hodgson, Chris Walker, Steve Platter and John Reynolds, watched thousands of hours of racing footage and ridden dozens of Trackdays internationally, and I’m still hungry to learn. The problem is the people that should be watching, probably won’t as they already think they know it all. I’ve recommended ‘A Twist of the Wrist’ to so many new riders, but they’re just not interested. I’ve given myself neck ache shaking my head after following so many people on road. But fingers crossed let’s hope the nation are more open minded than I’m giving them credit for. Role on episode 1
Cant wait for this one... I'm a new rider, passed in July, at the ripe old age of 33 and I'm craving knowledge to get better at riding. Currently ride my tracer 7gt into London 3 days a week and out at the weekend whenever i can.
You're just a whipper snapper at 33! Hope you get plenty from it, I know I already have and we've only recorded the first two episodes. Cheers, Michael
I'm with you on that sentiment. Just like those who don't/won't embrace the safety features on bikes. ABS is a godsend for example, I ask a lot of people when they last practiced an emergency stop and most say "when I took my test" which could easily have been 30-50 years ago in many cases. Cheers, Michael
I love the concept and look forward to the series, I ride daily and have fun on my days off. I think it’s important to push home the message that when riding on the street you should only push 80% of what you think you’re capable of. Too many people ride above their skill set and unfortunately they add to the statistics that you speak of.
You want to improve, stop riding to your local seaside and put some miles in. I hadn't been out since 2022, too busy and a lousy 2023 summer, my latest bike is very different from what I had been riding and was finding corner entry speed hard to get right. So, off to Wales for a long weekend and it soon came back. I scratched around Wales on various types of roads, did the NC500 (well half, east coast dull as dish water) and several more trips over to the amazing Welsh countryside. Another important factor is, be prepared to go on your own, waiting for others to join you means you stand a chance of not going anywhere. Get out there while your're still young.......Ahem?
I follow your channel and always enjoy your content. I feel you may have just started the most significant safety, knowledge, understanding and riding series available. TH-cam is full of inaccurate, misguided and dangerous information that scares me and must put riders in danger simply by trusting without understanding what’s going on. The confidence/experience graph struck home massively, I’ve seen friends terrify me before they travel through it over the first few years on bikes. I can’t wait to see the next and all episodes, really looking forward to Mark’s insite and use of data to provide feedback.
In the UK. By their reckoning a CBT learner having just passed his CBT would be about up to 5% of skill or expertise. However he does say that with ten thousand hours of training one could be say a moto gp champion. Not really what ordinary motorcyclist want to or aspire to, they just want to be as safe as is possible on our roads today and not out on a racetrack which would be far more safer than any road. . Like the man said 1t about 16.00 we can all justify how good we are by certain criteria that we believe to important.. One being how far we have travelled on a bike or how many hours we have done or how many training sessions we have under our belt but all of these are total nonsense if you are not learning anything on a minute to minute experience on your bike. We can go for decades without having any accidents at all and think that we are the bees knees until that day arrives when we are faced with a situation that we have got ourselves into and cannot get out of without suffering the consequences.
Brilliant initiative, and the riding experience data approach sobering and very relevant. Very best of luck with this series and hope it delivers the value it has the potential too.
That's the right attitude, and I've already taken a couple of bits away talking to Mark when creating this series and recording the first couple of episodes. I also commentate to myself sometimes, describing everything I see or that's a potential hazard... you never know, it might make a funny TH-cam series! Cheers, Michael
I’m really looking forward to this series! I’m a novice rider and got my license just 4 months ago. I’m especially interested in learning how riding techniques need to be adapted for different types of bikes. For example, I’d love to see episodes on improving riding skills for cruiser bikes, as most videos tend to focus on riding naked bikes.
Mostly for track and racing riders. Yes we all could do with experts to help and guide us to be faster or should I say as this is from Bennetts the racing sponsors, possibly safer but many of them relay on electronics, computers data gathering etc. to be able understand and to help track riders achieve maximum performance including speeds under all circumstances. Normal road riders don't have that technology to hand and would not know where to obtain it from or be able to pay for it. A prime example is the front suspension. amount of dip. when say braking. Not all bikes can adjust their front suspension and at the speed we can ride at on our roads probably don't need to anyway. They may be able to do so on their rear but not on their front, So a racer needs to have as little dip so to speak as possible and experts will actually set his suspension correctly for his bike and his weight. Who can do that on our roads? no one so we all basically do with what we have got and fortunately if we ride defensively enough live to ride for a long time. I am 75 years of age and have ridden for over 65 year both on and off road. With track racing ,their tarmac is totally different from our tarmac. What happens on their tarmac stays on their tarmac. By all means watch it if you have 20 mins to do nothing else in and don't worry if you cant do what they recommend. Not many can.
I'm definitely looking forward to this, been riding for a little over 8 years now, although most of them were on maxi scooters, I recently got into more bigger bikes in the last few years and riding a Suzuki GSX-S 750 so would really like to further develop my skills and build more confidence (I am a 35 year old male).
The Dunning-Kruger effect is very interesting. Not only associated with motorcycling, but in everyday life this is encountered. Particularly those in higher office 🙄
Good luck, and I hope we can help but sometimes it's too easy for us to impart too much information, so take it slowly and learn something new each and every ride.
At a young age under say 25 years we are full of a testosterone and get a big kick out of adrenaline so with these controlling our brains as well as our actions on a road on a motorcycles its dangerous to say the least. If your mate unfortunately dies on the road and you think that the road is now unsafe then go onto the relative safety of a track and then learning starts. Having learnt maybe nothing on the road except to maybe get thrills. Unfortunately THRILLS leads to SPILLS and SPILLS lead to KILLS. So from an early age he got training on track and that no doubt helped him develop his particular skills.
Neat idea, looking forward to the series. If I can make a suggestion - it would be nice to share couple of exercises that we can practise in a parkinglot. I plan to search the yt for some to build a short "lesson" for 5-10min that one can squeeze into the ride from work or before/after a trip.
Yes, that's the plan. We've already recorded the next two episodes and both contain advice on what to practice and where. There's even a section that you can pause in the next episode that shows how many cones you might need any how far they are to be spaced out. Cheers, Michael
I think my confidence was at the bottom of the dunning kruger effect curve... for the last 10 years. Hopefully after a recent couple of days off road training it might be on the way back up. 🙂
Ha! Yes, it’s pretty vibrant. And on the assumption that you like it, if you send me an email to enquiries@bikesocial.co.uk with your name, address and size I’ll get one in the post to you 👍🏻 Cheers, Michael
well, after putting about 60.000 kms and the types of roads I ride, as in bendy twisty so not that fast, I disappointingly reached the conclusion that I have only about 1000 hours of riding... oh well, time to get some more I guess :)
lol what an insane accent - but I prefer RAPID for trusted advice in the UK. Always good to have extra research in the TH-cam space, which he seems to dislike.
Yes the guys at Rapid are all excellent and we've used them several time before for consulting on web articles to this when we all got back on our bikes after lock down: th-cam.com/video/pw1lyzEWDjU/w-d-xo.html
You don't need to be an expert rider to ride safely. You just need to be careful. I would never chose an instructor stating that he only saved his own life because he stopped riding on the road and started racing. I want an instructor with a completely different mindset. I want an instructor that has always ridden carefully, learned street riding in the streets, knows motorcycle dynamics and can teach it. I would avoid instructors from nations where the motorcycle fatality rate is exceptionally high - like USA, UK and Australia.
There's a well established post test system of Roadcraft in the UK but almost nothing in Australia. Why go to this race focused guy in Australia for this series when there are numerous more experienced and qualified road coaches in the UK already?
It's not a series i will be watching, unfortunately. Surely bennetts should be partnering with someone like RoSPA or IAMS to promote proven advance safety riding.
The idea of this series is to supplement what IAM, ROSPA and other excellent training companies and organisations do. We want to help explain what your bike is doing and why your inputs have an influence on that. It's more about the machine control that compliments the roadcraft taught in their training. Roadcraft is essential to help prevent you getting into an incident, but machine control and understanding the physics of how a bike works is what will get you out of trouble should something untoward happen. Hope that helps. Steve
What may be a good companion series is essential bike maintenance to enable better riding. Critical things like suspension, steering head bearings, tyre pressures. Not the race optimising stuff just the basics. You can't be a good rider if your bike has a low rear tyre!!!! Looking forward to this series anyhow!
It's a great idea and one I started discussing at our end after we recorded the last episode in the current series of What Bike Next?
Watch this space, as they say. Although, did you catch our Home School series recorded during lockdown: th-cam.com/play/PLEmXSigXaptyEeC5UHP3NMlBX5Uudaryj.html&si=_pMyYPXYiOiOxaqW
Cheers, Michael.
@@bennettsbikesocial I have seen some of these, I was rebuilding a TZR 250 from Japanese manuals at that time! However, the pillon/heavy luggage one is something you otherwise would never learn about but from unpleasant experience- great stuff!
Good stuff Michael and Mark , I am looking forward to the series. Just passed my test last year at age 54.
Congratulations and welcome to the best club in the world! Great to hear that you’re keen on the content, we’ve already recorded a couple of episodes and I can genuinely say that I’m still learning.
Cheers, Michael
I’m looking forward to learning from this series. I’ve been riding 40 years, done the California Superbike school, had one-2-one training from Neil Hodgson, Chris Walker, Steve Platter and John Reynolds, watched thousands of hours of racing footage and ridden dozens of Trackdays internationally, and I’m still hungry to learn. The problem is the people that should be watching, probably won’t as they already think they know it all. I’ve recommended ‘A Twist of the Wrist’ to so many new riders, but they’re just not interested. I’ve given myself neck ache shaking my head after following so many people on road. But fingers crossed let’s hope the nation are more open minded than I’m giving them credit for. Role on episode 1
This channel needs more subscribers. All riders of all ages should always keep learning and practicing.
Cant wait for this one... I'm a new rider, passed in July, at the ripe old age of 33 and I'm craving knowledge to get better at riding. Currently ride my tracer 7gt into London 3 days a week and out at the weekend whenever i can.
You're just a whipper snapper at 33! Hope you get plenty from it, I know I already have and we've only recorded the first two episodes.
Cheers, Michael
I worry about the guy’s who know it all. At 66 I’m still learning,any form of extra knowledge is a plus and looking forward to this series 👍
I'm with you on that sentiment. Just like those who don't/won't embrace the safety features on bikes. ABS is a godsend for example, I ask a lot of people when they last practiced an emergency stop and most say "when I took my test" which could easily have been 30-50 years ago in many cases.
Cheers, Michael
Riding a bike is a perishable skill. You need to exercise it as much as possible to stay in the game.
I take all the help offered. Much appreciated!
100% agree with that sentiment. The more anyone practises any hobby or interest, the better they'll become.
I've been riding Forty odd years - but every day is a learning day!
I love the concept and look forward to the series, I ride daily and have fun on my days off. I think it’s important to push home the message that when riding on the street you should only push 80% of what you think you’re capable of. Too many people ride above their skill set and unfortunately they add to the statistics that you speak of.
You want to improve, stop riding to your local seaside and put some miles in. I hadn't been out since 2022, too busy and a lousy 2023 summer, my latest bike is very different from what I had been riding and was finding corner entry speed hard to get right. So, off to Wales for a long weekend and it soon came back. I scratched around Wales on various types of roads, did the NC500 (well half, east coast dull as dish water) and several more trips over to the amazing Welsh countryside.
Another important factor is, be prepared to go on your own, waiting for others to join you means you stand a chance of not going anywhere.
Get out there while your're still young.......Ahem?
I follow your channel and always enjoy your content. I feel you may have just started the most significant safety, knowledge, understanding and riding series available. TH-cam is full of inaccurate, misguided and dangerous information that scares me and must put riders in danger simply by trusting without understanding what’s going on. The confidence/experience graph struck home massively, I’ve seen friends terrify me before they travel through it over the first few years on bikes. I can’t wait to see the next and all episodes, really looking forward to Mark’s insite and use of data to provide feedback.
You guys are great, covering the real important staff for riders
In the UK. By their reckoning a CBT learner having just passed his CBT would be about up to 5% of skill or expertise. However he does say that with ten thousand hours of training one could be say a moto gp champion. Not really what ordinary motorcyclist want to or aspire to, they just want to be as safe as is possible on our roads today and not out on a racetrack which would be far more safer than any road. .
Like the man said 1t about 16.00 we can all justify how good we are by certain criteria that we believe to important.. One being how far we have travelled on a bike or how many hours we have done or how many training sessions we have under our belt but all of these are total nonsense if you are not learning anything on a minute to minute experience on your bike. We can go for decades without having any accidents at all and think that we are the bees knees until that day arrives when we are faced with a situation that we have got ourselves into and cannot get out of without suffering the consequences.
Brilliant initiative, and the riding experience data approach sobering and very relevant. Very best of luck with this series and hope it delivers the value it has the potential too.
great stuff - tuning in from NY
This should be very interesting, especially as a person who has been riding for 54 years, and whos abilities are declining rather than increasing.
Got to accept the aging process but not help it along
Fantastic we are never to old to learn and improve and keep safe
That's the right attitude, and I've already taken a couple of bits away talking to Mark when creating this series and recording the first couple of episodes. I also commentate to myself sometimes, describing everything I see or that's a potential hazard... you never know, it might make a funny TH-cam series!
Cheers, Michael
I’m really looking forward to this series! I’m a novice rider and got my license just 4 months ago. I’m especially interested in learning how riding techniques need to be adapted for different types of bikes. For example, I’d love to see episodes on improving riding skills for cruiser bikes, as most videos tend to focus on riding naked bikes.
It's a relevant point and one that we touch briefly on in episode 2 when talking about tyre grip.
Nice one! I’m looking forward to seeing what I can learn from this series.
Mostly for track and racing riders. Yes we all could do with experts to help and guide us to be faster or should I say as this is from Bennetts the racing sponsors, possibly safer but many of them relay on electronics, computers data gathering etc. to be able understand and to help track riders achieve maximum performance including speeds under all circumstances.
Normal road riders don't have that technology to hand and would not know where to obtain it from or be able to pay for it. A prime example is the front suspension. amount of dip. when say braking. Not all bikes can adjust their front suspension and at the speed we can ride at on our roads probably don't need to anyway. They may be able to do so on their rear but not on their front, So a racer needs to have as little dip so to speak as possible and experts will actually set his suspension correctly for his bike and his weight. Who can do that on our roads? no one so we all basically do with what we have got and fortunately if we ride defensively enough live to ride for a long time. I am 75 years of age and have ridden for over 65 year both on and off road.
With track racing ,their tarmac is totally different from our tarmac. What happens on their tarmac stays on their tarmac.
By all means watch it if you have 20 mins to do nothing else in and don't worry if you cant do what they recommend. Not many can.
I'm definitely looking forward to this, been riding for a little over 8 years now, although most of them were on maxi scooters, I recently got into more bigger bikes in the last few years and riding a Suzuki GSX-S 750 so would really like to further develop my skills and build more confidence (I am a 35 year old male).
Amazing guys, fanatastic example of turning real tough hard times to something beneficial - Davey would be mega proud! What a mate! 👊🙌😎👍
Is this the chap from a few months ago I see you guys doing his very mod 2 style training around some cones?
This sounds excellent, really looking forward to it as someone looking to return to biking.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is very interesting. Not only associated with motorcycling, but in everyday life this is encountered. Particularly those in higher office 🙄
Sounds good, especially if it gets more people into bikes 👍🏻
That's definitely the plan! And hopefully we can improve the skills for current riders too.
Thanks, Michael
Looking forward to this!
Can wait to see how this pans out
Really looking forward to this, fantastic idea.
This series sounds amazing 👍 Can't wait to see more of it 😎
Brill, glad you’re keen. There’s a real opportunity here not only for us all to help every motorcyclist but also to encourage more into riding.
Started taking lessons two days ago, it’ll take some time for me to learn… Avoiding obstacles especially. Controlling the throttle is also a challenge
Good luck, and I hope we can help but sometimes it's too easy for us to impart too much information, so take it slowly and learn something new each and every ride.
@@bennettsbikesocial Thank you 🙏🏼
At a young age under say 25 years we are full of a testosterone and get a big kick out of adrenaline so with these controlling our brains as well as our actions on a road on a motorcycles its dangerous to say the least. If your mate unfortunately dies on the road and you think that the road is now unsafe then go onto the relative safety of a track and then learning starts. Having learnt maybe nothing on the road except to maybe get thrills. Unfortunately THRILLS leads to SPILLS and SPILLS lead to KILLS. So from an early age he got training on track and that no doubt helped him develop his particular skills.
Sounds like a great initiative, I’m looking forward to this series of content. Thanks for this Mark and Michael, 🙏👍
Thanks a lot for that, yep hopefully everyone who watches will gain something. I have already!
Cheers, Michael
Are you still doing anything in Australia because your website doesn’t work and information seems hard to find ?
Neat idea, looking forward to the series. If I can make a suggestion - it would be nice to share couple of exercises that we can practise in a parkinglot. I plan to search the yt for some to build a short "lesson" for 5-10min that one can squeeze into the ride from work or before/after a trip.
Yes, that's the plan. We've already recorded the next two episodes and both contain advice on what to practice and where. There's even a section that you can pause in the next episode that shows how many cones you might need any how far they are to be spaced out.
Cheers, Michael
I think my confidence was at the bottom of the dunning kruger effect curve... for the last 10 years. Hopefully after a recent couple of days off road training it might be on the way back up. 🙂
Looking good
I'm looking forward to thi😊
That shade of blue on your shirt is striking .Maybe if we all wore brighter jackets it could help make us more visible .
Ha! Yes, it’s pretty vibrant. And on the assumption that you like it, if you send me an email to enquiries@bikesocial.co.uk with your name, address and size I’ll get one in the post to you 👍🏻
Cheers, Michael
It would match a GSX8S perfectly!
Me too pse 🙏
Helluva time of year to start this.
Better late than never....
Well, it is Spring in Australia.
@@FatherOBlivion greetings from the Mother country. 😁
@@sizzers58 see how it matches up to Mj, 😁
well, after putting about 60.000 kms and the types of roads I ride, as in bendy twisty so not that fast, I disappointingly reached the conclusion that I have only about 1000 hours of riding... oh well, time to get some more I guess :)
so muchg motorcycle content on the internet seem to be about accidents and death. no wonder young people don't want to take it up.
lol what an insane accent - but I prefer RAPID for trusted advice in the UK. Always good to have extra research in the TH-cam space, which he seems to dislike.
Yes the guys at Rapid are all excellent and we've used them several time before for consulting on web articles to this when we all got back on our bikes after lock down: th-cam.com/video/pw1lyzEWDjU/w-d-xo.html
🤘
You don't need to be an expert rider to ride safely. You just need to be careful. I would never chose an instructor stating that he only saved his own life because he stopped riding on the road and started racing. I want an instructor with a completely different mindset. I want an instructor that has always ridden carefully, learned street riding in the streets, knows motorcycle dynamics and can teach it. I would avoid instructors from nations where the motorcycle fatality rate is exceptionally high - like USA, UK and Australia.
There's a well established post test system of Roadcraft in the UK but almost nothing in Australia. Why go to this race focused guy in Australia for this series when there are numerous more experienced and qualified road coaches in the UK already?
Very impressive to know the capabilities of all the riders in Australia
It's not a series i will be watching, unfortunately. Surely bennetts should be partnering with someone like RoSPA or IAMS to promote proven advance safety riding.
The idea of this series is to supplement what IAM, ROSPA and other excellent training companies and organisations do. We want to help explain what your bike is doing and why your inputs have an influence on that. It's more about the machine control that compliments the roadcraft taught in their training. Roadcraft is essential to help prevent you getting into an incident, but machine control and understanding the physics of how a bike works is what will get you out of trouble should something untoward happen. Hope that helps. Steve