10 Must-Know Motorcycle Riding Tips For Beginner Riders

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[RyansResolve]

If you’re driving on your cell phone, distracted, and recklessly making choices behind the wheel, that’s not a mistake to me. That is deliberately not caring about others.

[rocknexus]

10:20 "never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently attributed to ignorance or stupidity"

[johnswanson]

Swerving and darting through traffic is a fine skillset to have, but what I see mostly are riders that are not paying attention to what is developing ahead of them. Most of these close calls could be avoided if the rider was paying attention and slowing down before it became a critical close call. These riders are living on a prayer every time they take to the road!!! The 4 wheel vehicle ALWAYS wins!!

[joshchaplin]

First clip is a great example of paying attention to your surroundings. You won't always be able to dodge stuff like this, but a quick reaction can help you avoid stuff like things. Anticipate, what IF the person on my left would merge over on me.

[briannairb]

This video showed several close calls that could have been avoided if the motorcyclist was not speeding and left a much greater following distance. The “PLAN” should always first be to slow down in traffic - the goal is to get to your destination not dodge cars

[Jesse_E]

Just bought my first motorcycle ever (Yamaha V Star 650) Going to take it out tomorrow to the school up the road and practice.

[nomadicwolf]

15:03

Me: "This is absolute gold! I now understand the world a little better."

Dan: "There's the weird learning that I like to teach around."

[HasPotatoAim]

That last clip. Love the little rubber duck with the beanie propeller

[cadezipperer]

Only recently found you as a creator, quite happy I did I've only just started riding bikes and you have a lot of lessons to teach good ones I might add. So thank you for everything you've taught me so far and everything I believe you will teach me later on. You're a great help

[justjesse]

i love your breakdown of the oil dripping in the middle. but one thing most dnt understand, the air under a vehicle is the same relative difference as the car to the air above. so the oil drip moving 70mph suddenly falling into static air will dissapate most of it over a spread area. nt just under the center

[sessasidney]

Running a red light is not a mistake, it's a decision

[giannirusso]

mr fireman you honestly inspire me to get a gopro so i can watch you react to some of the nutso stuff that happens out there when im riding

[cedrickervella]

5:00 Middle middle middle is really fine, and any rider should train with that line as well as with others. My favorite may still be (for a left turn) Right, Middle and Left only when you see ahead of the curve for late apex and a good throttle exit :p

[DoubleSeemen]

In the Netherlands, it’s illegal to pass on the right. You can also get fined for going slow in the middle or left lane. So everyone always sticks to the right and passes on the left. Would have prevented a lot of these crashes!

[MjekuMati]

I just picked up my first bike, a Honda Monkey. Never ridden before and waiting for my gear before I go for the first time. Watching all these kinds of videos have me seriously reconsidering what possessed me to buy a bike in the first place. It’s starting to feel like it’s just not safe enough to ride a bike on the streets.

These videos all do seem to have one common thing: they all seem to be going faster than the rest of traffic. Makes me think that’s why the cars are “cutting off” the motorcycles. They just aren’t expecting something to shoot up along side.

[opumfrey]

On that left hander where you’re saying middle, in the UK in this situation you’re taught to stay to the right. That gives you best visibility into the corner, gets yo7 seen sooner, and means your head isn’t hanging over the middle. That case would not have been so close if they had been positioned on the right. Then move to middle once corner completed. Middle for right turns (left for us in UK!). We don’t talk about oil on the road as much as you guys do!

[steve-o]

Most of these near misses are due to the bikers undertaking at speed, you should never pass a vehicle on the right (left UK), if you do you must be extremely carful and go slow leaving enough breaking distance. I think most could be avoided if they just slowed down and left more space.

[siniister]

second one was terrifying. One time I was riding down hill and an audi q5 just started driving straight at me out of nowhere, there were cars parked to my right so I was pretty fucked but I quickly downshifted to first and progressively hit the brakes and about 15 feet away they swerved back. I had to pull off the road and decompress for a few minutes.

[nicholas]

I've had a fair amount of driver training. The more I get, the more faults I see with other drivers. Something I see very frequently is that a driver will glance in their mirror and make a decision immediately. They don't calculate the distance of the driver/rider in the next lane, and they don't calculate the speed that the driver/rider is moving. They glance and pull a static image. Also, many people do not know how to properly adjust their mirrors. You can minimize or almost completely remove blindspots with a properly adjusted mirror. If you can see the side of your vehicle in your mirror, it is wrong. Then, there is always the lack of seeing a bike. A loud exhaust doesn't help. A car on a highway won't hear you until you are next to them or ahead. Always wear a highly visible color. Even with a quick glance in a mirror, that intense high vis top will catch their eye nearly 100% of the time. Be safe out there. Remember, there is only a mandatory 6 hours behind the wheel training to get a driver's license in the U.S. in most states. That is way too little. Everyone should have to take a defensive driver course and an advanced defensive driver course at a minimum. It would save lives.

[TexasHawk_ks]

Who else gives Dan the thumps up as soon the video begins. We already know it's gonna be good and informative