Motorcycle road craft: The police riders' manual

by Great Britain Home Office and Home Office

With input from police riders, trainees and civilian experts, this work is designed for police trainees and other riders concerned with getting the best from their machines. It gives information on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0113401493
• ISBN13: 9780113401499
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Stationery Office Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great resource for improving awareness

The best information I've found to-date on the mechanics of optimizing awareness over the road. This is about street-level strategies for staying on the right side of the event horizon of crashes and unplanned/reactive vehicle handling around hazards. There is nothing on vehicle-handling itself but that is what the basic and in-service training are for. Some useful information on the value of a personal training ethic, though that is a bit distributed.

The Manual for some intensive and extensive training.

While you can read about a lot of advanced motorcycling skills in this book, you should be aware that it is intended as the 'course book' for actual tutored training. Roadcraft is a SYSTEM of safe motorcycling, and attitude and mindset are actually more important than the individual techniques in the book. You can learn a lot from the book, but if you don't back it up with (at least) thoughtful and self-critical practice, you'd be selling yourself short. Better still would be practice with another experienced rider, and joint evaluations of progress.

Serious about motorcycle safety and riding?

This book is a very good compilation of rider strategies and is coupled with establishing the correct mindset a rider should have to increase their skills. As the saying goes, "the more you know, the better the ride". It's true. This is just one of many books serious riders should read to maximize your chances for safe, enjoyable riding.

The best motorcycle safety book

I've read a decent amount of books on motorcycle safety, but this one rates the best for me. I go back to it often. You can tell that a lot of thought and experience went into making this book. If every motorcyclist read and practiced what was in this book, there would be a DRASTIC drop in accidents. But if motorcyclists want to be stupid, then remember, stupid hurts (as the Honda advertisement says).

the UK motorcycle police call it 'the bible'

having done some limited training with the london metropolitan police riders i started to appreciate just how much better than me a class 1 trained police rider really is. throwing my bike into a series of tight lefts and rights on public roads i never once managed to shake the PC behind me - i was on a gixxer 600 with over 100bhp and he was 30yrs older than me on a BMW tourer. my respect was upped enormously.the same policeman told me to read roadcraft and i can truly attest that this book will not only make you safer, it will make you both a faster and safer rider and the combination will put a smile on your face all day long. the content is a bit dry, but for anyone that loves their bike and loves feeling like the king of the road, then the effort should prove extremely rewarding. save your life and brighten up your weekend all at once, read this manual.