Not great pics, taken off my cell phone. But here is junior having his first riding lessons and doing figure 8's - VERY proud Mom & Dad! Oh, and taking the SIPDE rules seriously too!
First Official Riding Lessons
- Thread starter Gromit
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Cool man. Well done Liam, and parents for encouraging real professional lessons!
Good for you and Farside for starting him off correctly. 
Well done, Liam.
Well done, Liam.
Excellent! to rider training.
to rider training.
Great stuff the only way to go these days.
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Good going and pleased to see in the second shot he is looking at his target as opposed tho directly in front.
Tell me, what is SIPDE ?
Tell me, what is SIPDE ?
Congrats, very proud you both are I am sure. 
Nothing like bringing new riders into the sport.
Nothing like bringing new riders into the sport.
Devo, SIPDE is:
All the riding schools here do SIPDE training for at least an hour before they let a novice get on a bike. It's really good to teach beginners the right rules before they develope their own riding habits. I did the sipde thing and it's saved me a couple of times when I could see that an accident was about to happen in front of me. If you haven't ridden before and have no old habits, this is a good habit to develop before you get out on the road.
- SCAN - the area around you, looking for hazards
- IDENTIFY - identify the hazard
- PREDICT - try to anticipate what's going to happen
- DECIDE - decide on a course of preventative/safety actions
- EXECUTE - execute the evasive action you've decided on
All the riding schools here do SIPDE training for at least an hour before they let a novice get on a bike. It's really good to teach beginners the right rules before they develope their own riding habits. I did the sipde thing and it's saved me a couple of times when I could see that an accident was about to happen in front of me. If you haven't ridden before and have no old habits, this is a good habit to develop before you get out on the road.
This sounds like a good way of teaching them and it is also the first time I have heard of SIPDE. Then again a lot of the technical stuff when I hear people mention it I think what on earth is that only to find our I have been doing it for years
Dave, some experienced riders find this just common sense, but for a novice, I think it's priceless. And when I see some of these 20 year old's on Fireblades acting like they're the next Rossi, my blood runs cold. We'd rather make sure that Liam learns good habits from the get-go vs unlearning bad habits the hard way.
I agree this is the way to go and more of the young riders need this. I suppose when we started riding all we had was what the old riders would share with us or we had to learn the hard way and that was not always much fun 
we've had.. CBT... ( compulsory basic training ) since the early 8o's you have to have it even if you want to ride a 50cc moped !
but its good to see the young gun taking it serously
but its good to see the young gun taking it serously
thanks for the update G
sounds like a plan.
sounds like a plan.
I find it second nature for me. But I had to have learned it somewhere - from experienced riders, from books on riding? I never had to take a riding course as I was grandfathered in when the system was implemented. I did voluntarily take a sidecar course along with Mae Lyne.
I love to see that Liam is taking this seriously and putting the techniques he is leaning into practice.
When I started riding in the 1950's I just got on the bike and learned. I had a couple of spills along the way, but nothing serious.
When I came back to riding in 1992 I voluntarily took the riders course (mainly to ease my wifes fears about bike riding), but also because I was older and smarter and knew it was the right thing to do. I'm glad I did as I learned a lot of things I wouldn't have thought of on my own. I still use those lessons to this day.
Like Gromit, the stuff I see being done on sport bikes by the young and foolish makes me shudder - especially when they're dressed in shorts, sandals or flip-flops, and maybe a T-shirt, tank top or no top.
When I came back to riding in 1992 I voluntarily took the riders course (mainly to ease my wifes fears about bike riding), but also because I was older and smarter and knew it was the right thing to do. I'm glad I did as I learned a lot of things I wouldn't have thought of on my own. I still use those lessons to this day.
Like Gromit, the stuff I see being done on sport bikes by the young and foolish makes me shudder - especially when they're dressed in shorts, sandals or flip-flops, and maybe a T-shirt, tank top or no top.
