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included on this page are not listed with any recommendation, but we found them
interesting, entertaining or useful and thought you might too. (If you find any
are 'broken', or if you wish to be included, please let us
know.)
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Clubs & Rider
Organisations
Rider Ideas
Rider
training for Lincolnshire (including the Edexcel-approved BTEC level 3
instructor training courses)
Bikesafe
UK Police
Forces' Safety Initiative.
BMF
The UK's
premier motorcyclists' organisation.
MAG
The UK's
other motorcyclists' organisation!
BMW Motorcycle Riders Home
Page
International site for BMW Owners.
The BMW
Club
UK BMW
riders.
Blue Riband Riders'
Club
Fledgling
organisation.
ST100 Pan European
For
ST1100 Pan European lovers. Will they change their club's name now the new
beastie has been launched?
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Commercial
Organisations
Cooper Reading
Our
Hosts.
Bike & RiDE
Biking Times
The
Riders Digest
London Biker
UK
motorcycle magazines.
Bikernews
Ridernews
What's
happening in the world of motorcycles.
Couriers!
Want to
be a courier?
Autograph
Racing
Organising an event and need great photography to record it?
Autograph could be the service you need.
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USA training
techniques
Most UK riding course content
is based on Police 'Roadcraft'. However, we have been influenced by training in
other countries, particularly the USA. Check these sites for more information:
MSF Motorcycle RiderCourse Report
Read
about the U.S. 'learner' standard training.
MSF Experienced Rider Course Report
Read
about the U.S. high standard training.
California Superbike School
Thought-provoking articles in 'Keith's Corner'
Samnet
Easy-to-read riding tips, based on MSF course content. *
Motocentral
Check the
'police riding techniques' article.
Gold Wing 'Top
Gun'
Amaze
your friends with this riding test!
Arizona (practice
guide)
Idaho (practice guide)
PDF booklet file
PDF booklet
file
PDF booklet
file
'Learner'
information booklets, variations on a theme, based on the MSF 'Motorcycle
RiderCourse' trainee booklet and self-teach skills practice
guide.
PDF
booklet file
MSF
Instructor guidelines
MSF Revised MRC
exercises
Draft of
new course
* Please note: some of these links have been 'flaky' of late,
will try to find latest versions etc. ASAP
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On-Line Forum
There are
a number of these on the web.
Visordown
Discussion groups, you don't have to register to read posts.
The 'Survival Skills' is particularly useful, and 'General' is particularly
amusing!
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Directories & Search
engines
Moto Directory
Loads of
useful web sites.
Bike Web
Ambitious
attempt to log every motorcycle site.
British Bull Dog's Bike
Page
UK Based
Generic Motorcycle Page.
RAE
Training
A good
selection of motorcycling links,
also some
useful riding articles.
Start 4
All
Massive,
easy-to-use, index.
Bike Shops
Index of
bike shops across the UK.
About
Motorcycles
Fairly
self-explanatory . . .
Bike
Links
As above,
fairly self-explanatory . . .
Portal 5
Odd name,
but another listing!
Bikepit
Interesting selection here.
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Riding Skills on-line
(articles)
Race
Smarter
Aimed at
off-road riding, but full of useful articles. Worth searching through.
Mo Snell
Good
'advanced' articles.
Mr.
Traffic
'Driving', rather than 'riding'. Do you know about the
U.S.A.'s traffic schools?
Wheels in
Motion
Selection
of articles.
Activebike
For the
'thinking' rider . . .
Doc
Wong
The
doctor is in . . . the 'clinics'.
James R
Davis
Over 160
articles;
Almost 80,000 visitors in 5
years!
California Superbike School
Thought-provoking articles in 'Keith's Corner'
Exploratorium
More
about steering . . . on a bicycle!
NZ Motorcycle Safety
Consultants
Check out
'What I learned about Life'.
Lovejoy
Varied
set of articles - how about 'turbulent flow analysis' on
motorways'?
Survival Skills
Good
articles, news & listings.
OMM Riders
Nothing
to do with meditation! It's a Turkish training group, with some excellent
material to read through. They also said some very kind things about our web
site.
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Riding Skills on-line (other
sites)
Drivers.com
US driver
behaviour information.
NAMS
The USA
National Agenda for m/c Safety
Honda
Sport Tourers
US club,
with novel accident assessment system. Also articles.
Prohibition
Slightly
. . . 'unusual' site, with some motorcycle content.
Tony Foale
Want to
know why your bike handles the way it does? This man knows!
Royce Creasey/FF
Want to
know why your bike ought to be designed differently? This man
knows!
Ergonomics
Adjusting
your bike to suit you.
Don't forget to check our booklist!
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Sport &
Touring
Auto Cycle
Union
National
body for motorcycle sport in the UK.
UK Track day
Information
For bikes
& cars.
Ultrablade
Useful
touring information.
MCI Tours
Touring
holidays.
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Places to Go, Things to
See
Milestones
Museum
Basingstoke's award-winning indoor version of the 'Beamish'
museum, several vehicle exhibits.
Sammy
Miller Museum
Vast
motorcycle collection.
Haynes Motor
Museum
The
'manuals' people, large vehicle collection.
The
Brooklands Museum
At the
famous banked track.
The Heritage
Collection
No bikes,
but a good collection of British vehicles.
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Planning your
journey
Trafficmaster
Traffic
jams as they happen!
Click on the 'Travel & Leisure'
banner menu.
AA
RAC
Traffic delays, routes and running costs info.
Traffic delays, routes and running costs
info.
Streetmap
Mapquest
Multimap
Getmapping (photos)
Cut your
fuel bills & never get lost again, (possibly).
Use these sites to find
your destination, plan a route - even look at an aerial photo of your
destination . . .
Met. Office
Weather
Weather.co.uk
Online
Weather
Current
and forecasts.
I'm not
sure 'planning your journey' is the best home for these two:
Ted Simon - off again!
The
around-the-world man is off to reprise his trip.
www.enduroindia.com
A
seven-day, 150 rider trip in aid of several charities. Can you help?
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Misc
Bikes in
Paper
Fancy a
Free Bike for the Desk?
Try one of these Paper Craft
Yamahas!
The English version seems to be off-line, but the printable
pages are available in Japanese - although you may have to hunt around a
bit!
Stolen bikes
Advice
& assistance
Bikemovies
Gallery
of videos & stills, some quite scary!
Yell
192(Set
up a free account)
BT
Find
people, 'phone numbers and addresses.
Caistor Media
Our web
hosts
KC3
Various
news items, including EU legislation.
Blood
Be a
blood, organ, and possibly marrow, donor.
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Learning to
ride?
Which course is right for you?
Check the
details:
BMF Rider Training centres across the UK
Dept. of
Transport
Driving Standards
Agency
You'll need copies of some books . . .
Take an
on-line Theory
Test
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Insurance
Motorcycle Direct
Try them for a quote: 0845
6040152 (reference number 1909)
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'Nothing to do with biking'
section
(Usually friends of Cooper Bike Training)
Photo-Cookery!
No, not
the 'pots and pans' stuff - this is photo editing, retouching etc. You supply
the tatty old sepia print - they remove the scratches and produce a great
print! Also video production & DVD
editing of events.
Autograph
Racing
Organising an event and need great photography to record it?
'Autograph' could be the service you need.
SHAG-MAG
Surrey,
Hants, Aldershot & Guildford
local MAG group. (well, OK,
these are 'to do with biking'!)
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