Limit points. How to judge bends or curves. (Motorcycle instructor riding tips) 

I love that saying "Never put your front wheel somewhere your brain hasn't been first" wicked. Brilliant useful video.

What a great saying " Never put your front wheel where your brain has never gone" Love your lessons. Garry🇦🇺

This is good to see. Teaching to not just pass a test, but to instil some solid life saving skills 👍

Anybody new to motorcycling. Russ is really good at instructing and explains things very well.

You’ve got so many good little phrases that are easy to remember and tell you exactly what you need to do.

Best Roadcraft Channel On RU-vid 🙏

Came across this by chance today. Passed my bike test 30 years ago but still found this helpful. Always good to watch folk on their bikes getting out there, especially riders that are new to the roads on bikes. I absolutely love riding my little HD Sportster. Live in the borders of Scotland, some great roads. I always get a nice feeling seeing new riders.. going our family. Take care everybody out there on the roads. 😊 Just like to add… never seen this instructor before but yeah he knows the score and speaks nicely and clearly to his pupils. Respect to him. And to anyone just learning- never forget what you learn on your lessons. It’s all relevant. Everyone/everything else on the road is trying to kill you 😉 Stay safe people and enjoy your bike 🏍 Want to go out on mine now but it’s chucking it down 😂

This guy is a total pro.

This is the best informative channel on bike riding in RU-vid. Great job..

just passed my mod 2, but i wish i had had you as an instructor. i feel that ive learnt more off of you in the last few videos ive watched than through my own instructors. as someone else put it, teaching not just to pass a test

My neck of the Woods at Burton Joyce. Did my CBT with you a few years ago and still love all these videos. Best Roadcraft Vids on RU-vid 👍

that "worn white lines" is a good one , ill remember to use that

Been watching your videos for years,way before I've lived in the UK. Trying to help other people is noble,being well informed is vital.Thank you.

Really enjoyed that, I was riding with an experienced friend who rides a Pan 1100, he sometimes comments why are you slowing down on bends , my answer is always if I can't see I slow down he glides round em like he is in an armchair but if I can't see nor can he. I have pointed out some vlogs to change his ways but to no avail, I won't be changing what I have learnt. Ride your own ride is always good advice.

This particular tip saved a good part of my health, if not life. As I drove along the unpaved road, I passed the tractor driving in the opposite direction. A long, hefty looking plow suddenly appeared from behind the tractor at the bumpy road. He would have swept me off the motorcycle if I had not slowed down before and did not drive on the right side of the road. Keep on the good work.

I wish I had such a amazing tither when was doing my lessons .After watching a few of your videos I get much more then on my lessons. Thank you for brilliant job.

Thanks for your time putting these vids up. Learn a lot from them.

Your initial video on limit points from years ago really helped my riding (over here in BC)... great info again Russ... glad to see you back on here... dropping knowledge bombs. Cheers again, matey. Steve

Your roadcraft lessons are brilliant. you have a fantastic way of explaining things. I’ve caught myself many times talking to myself when I’m on the bike saying road tightens... road opens.... has my brain been there yet....

Always a pleasure coming along with your rides ... Thanks .Guy

Great teacher listen to what he is saying could save your life some day

Good to have you back on RU-vid!

I wish I had you as an instructor, mine for my CBT forced me into P3 and yelled at me for doing what you show in this video naturally. Its put me off going for my bigger test as only company local that does it.

Very good thank you feel better now!! Just been on a Bike Safe , end of my observed ride the comment was, I play and ride safe, they don't use the format position 1-2-3 although I find this very god for visualization. National speed limit 60 My average speed was 48 / 50 going around corners , I was informed I needed to increase speed ! No other issues which was good although felt a bit deflated ie speed. Always on my mind stop safely within the distance you can see to be clear within the speed to be able to stop safely. Been riding many years happy to ride 60 /70 on straighter road but not always on cornering , I ride my ride Great video.

That pair of bends at 8:22 has seen a couple of cars off the road. It looks really clear..but snakes..Seen two on their roof in the field opposite over the last 3 or 4 years. Also numerous horses and bicycles on that bit too! Nice video, having come back to biking after XX years, it's great to be reminded and it feels good that that I haven't forgotten. Being 6'4" and on an old BMW RT with huge fairing definitely helps with the Volvo-driver awareness from what I used to ride, but it's the brain that does indeed provide most safety :-) Taking the bike out has improved my car driving, constantly scanning and thinking about where you are going. I confess to position 2 & 1/2 on the old North Road on the bike when it's quiet though.

Even for someone who’s passed already, it really pays to watch your videos. Thanks for uploading and working hard to keep us safe.

Pressing the indicator button every 20 sec's is a good tip to make sure there not left on👍, it's something i do, RJ taught me that off his v'logs😉

Great job there! I like how calm and sound you have been explaining the current situation for your trainees. 👍

I ride the Lowdham to Lambley Road all the time. Great to get your perspective on it first hand.

The best instructor ever! Many thx! Please post more!!!

Very helpful I used this as part of my prep for the DAS chadderton assessment

These videos will save many lives. Keep up the great work 👍👍👍👍

Thanks for the upload..... i have learnt more from your videos than in all the years on and off that i have been riding..... think i might even be able to pass the current test now ...... i guess its a lot harder now .... not like when i took my test in 1988..... god am i that old.....lol

Great lessons! And a wonderful manner by which to teach them. Thank you - i always learn something and enjoy your videos.

" You got to be able to stop in the distance you see to be clear " . Highway code rule 126 . video 1.34 ,and again reinforced at 6.04 . This is the best advice you give, anyone could ever receive .

Thank you for that post , I think I am doing the right thing , I just lack a bit of confidence on leaning , I know , daft

Just wanted to say I had a good instructor and I passed my a licence test with only two minor faults but I wish you were my instructor. I am not saying my instructor was bad infact he was good but after watching the videos there is a thing that I called gift that you know how to explain things even to a new person so that they know what they are doing and why they are doing. Great job . Hopefully your lessons will save these people and help them become a safer rider

Excellent tutorial, cheers and thanks for explaining that position 3 is not needed when travelling on counrty roads.

I teach this for Advanced Riders too. Really clear, concise and very informative info - as usual!

This takes me back to my lessons, all them years ago.

I learn so much from watching these thanks!

I'd like to say thank you Russ. I've just finished working on a 28 year old 125 so i can get into riding, now in my 30's, and am looking to take my test. Your videos are a great help and while i'm out riding i feel like i'm learning all the time.

Enjoyed the description of if the bend closes, close your throttle. If it's holding, hold your throttle. If it opens up, open your throttle. Thanks Russ :)

Informative watch and different perspective for a new car driver.

I love these videos of you on training days with students. Makes me wish I could do mine again with weather like that. It was horrendously wet weather when I did all my training & test days 😩

Good video matey. Only just found your channel and will look out for more. I've been riding more yours than I care to remember but picked up some good tips on this video 👍 I've always ridden with the attitude everyone is out to kill me and don't trust anyone 🤣

Great vid Russ. Thank you for spending the time to do this one. MOT tomorrow then out on the road for Thor first time this year. Too much mountain biking lol

You're a great instructor. I hope mine are as good! Cheers.

Good tip on the worn white lines, hadn't considered that.

Sorry i missed the first part of the video Direct Access lol . Had to do my test a few yrs ago as the dvla had lost my details yet had the licence with the bike category on it. Did the test on a gsx 1400 that got a laugh cheers KYLE.

Love watching your vids, it doesn't matter about my full license it's always nice to learn more which makes riding a bike more safer and a hell more enjoyable, keep up the good work dude 😁

Good to see you again,enjoyed that refresher.

well done when you give the signal to CLOSE your throttle slowly on upcoming bends is a good command when I took lessons I don't ever remember being told to approach corner / bends like that. Just goes to show some good instructors some lazy you seem pretty decent :) By the way passed my test yrs ago about 30 lol shows my age

this is a part of lessens that is given to my in holland as well , this teqnic has proven a good tecnic for my last year , a car came on my side of the lane in a thigt richt bend , with almost no visabilty in to the turn ( we drive on the richt lane in holand ) if a had not use this tecnic , en ceep my speed douwn en holding my position in to position 1 ( for us in holland its al the way to the richt on my lane , this car woud have run in to me . ,

Always willing to listen to advice given from you guys

Wish I had had instruction like that ! Very informative thanks!

Great Instrutions Always good brush up I always keep checking my indicators didn't know why till I saw this! Maybe 24 years ago when I did my three day course my instructor had in grained it in to me 🤔

Great lesson, well done 🤓

Missed your videos so much Russ! glad to see you back

Excellent instruction!

Ahhh nice surprise to see this come up in my notifications!

Wow. Amazing explanation thanks mate 👍🏻

Sound advice & great bike 👍🏻

Wonderfully satisfying

Another great lesson thank you.

Excellent heads up

Very informative. I’m always nice and slow for corners when others wellie it.

Dont put ur front wheel where ur brain hasnt been first ✌ pretty much sums up riding as a whole!

nice clear explanations

Another useful tutorial. Worth subscribing.

Really clear video. Full licence holder but still a worthwhile watch. After all, it was from one of your vids that I learnt the simple trick of looking for the amount of side of a vehicle I can see in a bend ahead of me to help judge the severity. You say near the end about putting cruise control on, do you have that on your learner bikes?

Just to add for anyone watching who might be wondering: during advanced riding we generally split the lane up into 5 segments. 5 is to the far right, 1 is to the far left, 3 is in the middle. Positions are then taken dynamically based on the situation. If it is safe to do so, we would bias towards 4 of 5 on a left bend and 1 of 5 on a right. I think it's always useful to remember that the purpose of selecting an appropriate position is to maximise your view. Additionally, the limit point will be changing constantly so you need to constantly update your riding plan.

Invaluable advise on position 3. I was in position 2 on an off side bend in the Black Mountains in Germany last year and was still nearly hit by the huge mirror on a Winnebago coming the other way. I ducked and my mate told me that it missed me by inches.

Thanks very helpful.

Brilliant lesson ,thankyou

I keep pressing indicator button just to make sure it’s off lol great tips

excellent stuff Russ (that rhymed :-) lol ) Love your quirky little sayings ...does help for it to stick in mind ... .. look forward to next upload .

Could have done with this reminder last weekend! A car came well over the line on a right hand bend and drove me off the road. After watching this I think I may have been going a little bit fast for the corner.

Great video Russ. Love the new bike!

Used to watch your channel regularly but when u stopped uploading I unsubbed to try clearing my sub list down a bit. Good to have you back and I'm looking forward to watching your content again. Something I'd like to see a video on is factors on the bike that could affect the handling and how it feels. Feel free to ignor this, but a bit of waffling to explain my reason for this: I've been riding 3 years, but only on a bigger bike for a year and on the way home from work last week, my front end started feeling very twitchy. I assumed it may have been the road surface or similar, but then the problem persisted. Checked Steering head bearings etc and the only thing I found was that somehow the bolts tightening the bracket holding front left suspension fork were a little loose. I had the bike jacked up so made sure that the forks were equal and set right. Since doing that, the bike feels better again. Now, I still question whether it was in my head or if this was what was causing the front end to feel twitchy when leaning in. Therefore, I feel going through something like this may help learners as to investigating a problem.

I do all of this subconsciously, if I think about it too much I ride poorly. Always learning though! The older I get, the faster I was...

Again, great info 🤘

Nicely done sir 👍

Interesting to watch this. I'm one of those who passed my bike test on a 125 and could go to unlimited cc. The examiner stood on a street corner and sent me out of his sight many times. Yeah nuts when you think about it. For me I chose to do a Star Rider course so that I knew at least some basics. How am I doing now? One crash which was my fault and didn't involve other people. I did various vehicle tests over the following years and your video shows some similarities. The HGV tests for example - have you done those?? With HGV you're taught to read the road as far ahead as you can see it and memorise it - that prepares you for positioning the large vehicle and gives space to use mirrors more. I still have a bike but it's more for fun. The roads are certainly different now and your video has incredibly useful information. For me I learnt it anyway but people just starting could learn a lot of great things and quickly.

Great video, thanks. That's how a moto school should teach new riders. In my case 95% of riding was done in the training yard and I only went out once with the instructor, in real life traffic, with him on the same bike. I emphasize, only once!, before the actual exam with the police officer(which actually took only 10-15 min lol). So, that equates to almost zero real riding experience gained through moto school. At least they give you the permit.

Great lesson Russ, very much like my instructor whos words still echo in my helmet when I'm being silly. however the countersteering thing for me is too much of a headblagg, as someone that rode push bikes as fast as I can peddle since age 4 I find steering totally intuitive, road position input is great but actual steering input advice would cause me to overthink it as a learner.

A great video and pleased to hear your technique of keeping in position 2 for left hand bends. We should expect not only wide vehicles and farm machinery but also drivers who insist on moving over to the wrong side as demonstrated (though not in that case on a left-hander for the bikes) at 8:59. I've also encountered motorist 'boy racers' straightening the road and this random possibility is reason enough not to extend the view to a theoretically better position 3. I personally however may break this 'keeping to position 2 rule' approaching a junction where a car is getting ready to pull out onto a main road. This will we hope not only further alert him to our narrow bike but provide a better escape route for the bike should he begin to creep out or worse. I'll sometimes roll off the throttle too and may cover the front break though perhaps i'm getting paranoid now! Air horns too? Incidentally although I 'get' the need to not hold up traffic unnecessarily on say NSL roads, I would personally feel quite happy if a rider was simply more comfortable at doing 10 mph less despite road conditions that are good. The sign is a limit not a target etc... Finally I was slightly puzzled at your 'let's stick to 30 mph' comment when an advisory 20 mph sign was spotted. Are you sure in a court of law following say an accident that blame/insurance considerations might not be used against you?

Watched it twice today Russ, two lessons to make sure I don't put my front tyre where my brains hasn't been yet.

I struggle to push again if running wide in a corner. If I do push again the front seems to drift even wider. Would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.

Great video Silly question : I rented a bike country bmw gx and coming to a closing bend from 4 gear closing to 2 gear the bike would stall why is that ??? Please answer approaching the bend in plenty of time down to 20 miles I shifted down to 2 gear to enter bend safely but bike stalled Any tips or explanation why this accused? please I sub to your great Channel

@Roadcraft Nottingham , question about taking a bend on a normal road once you’re above the speed which countersteering applies, which (shifting weight or countersteering) is better to take a corner? - only one of them, and which? - primarily one of them, and which? - 50/50? - “it depends”?

Did you do a review on the blind spot mirror? I had one and it fell off what do you recommend?

Position 3 is not into the middle of the road. That was known as position 5 by the police in Advanced Training but since 2013 its been revise down from 5 positions to only three positions. Number 1 is now the inside tyre line, number 2 is the sump line and number 3 is now the offside tyre line. The old number 1 was considered to be too close to the kerb or verge where there would be debris etc. and number 5 was close to or on the mid line for a better view of left hand bends. Both of these positions no longer exist and we now have just numbers 1. 2. and 3. for ease of instruction.

excellent, nice to have this skills refresher. how are you enjoying the tiger russ?

i remember that time when i first learn to ride a bike, i shat myself (not literally lol) cause i was so nervous and stalled, good thing we can make 3 safety errors( automatic fail if you drop your bike or being intervene by the rozzers(as you will call it ) or the instructor.

"Don't put your front wheel somewhere your brain hasn't been first." ~ Roadcraft Nottingham 😃👍

Many years ago when I passed my direct access course I was told before leaving..... Expect everything, assume nothing, stop in the distance you can see ahead and treat the rest of the world as though you were completely invisible to them. Be safe.

Great video but what I missed was the "ride curves from the outside to the inside". You definitely do it by watching you...

Another extremely helpful lesson, I always wonder how many biker lives you saved over the years...hundreds?

It seems odd that we teach riders on approaching and taking bends to be aware of the vanishing point which relates to our speed and therefore our safety around a bend but what are we actually looking at ... the kerb or verge where both sides meet.. so why then when on the bend are we told not to look at the kerb or verge. Yes we need to know where our limit or vanishing point is and to follow it round but to do so we also need to glance down from time to time at the tarmac and around what is in front of us and that relates to bringing ours eyes down to the tarmac in front of us . Maybe to see that it isn't dangerous, worn or cracked or pot holed or if there is a grid or debris. Moving forward and looking forward into the horizon is important for our speed and progress but so is looking for danger closer to, which is something some riders forget to do. They are fixated on the horizon and or on the vanishing point but there are event horizons all around us and if we don't identify them we can be screwed. If we were to only look or scan as far ahead of us as we can we will fail to see just what is directly in front of us and closer than that distance scanned. You can't see a pothole a hundred or so feet away but you can definitely see it when its only 20 or 30 ft away and avoid it.