Keen bikers in Orkney are being offered the opportunity to brush up on their skills with a free advice and skills assessment session from Bikesafe.
The following YouTube clip has nothing to do with the training, I should make clear.
Run by advanced Road Traffic motorcyclists from Northern Constabulary's Road Policing Unit, Bikesafe is not a training course as such, but participants will find that completing the sessions will make them a safer rider.
Participants will have two hours of classroom based tuition including hazard awareness and perception, cornering and overtaking. This will be followed by a supervised ride from which they will be given feedback on their strengths and weaknesses by the assessors.
Councillor Andrew Drever, Chair of the Road Safety Forum, said: “I hope that Orkney’s motorcyclists will take up this opportunity. The sessions will be of great benefit to them and they should find that, not only will they become a safer road user, but that their overall riding experience will be improved too”.
The sessions take place on Saturday October 9 and Sunday October 10 and will run between 9am and 5pm.
If you are interested in attending you should contact Yvonne Scott at Orkney Islands Council on 01856 873535 or by email on
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by September 1.
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