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With National Highways’ invaluable brand-new BikerTek riding skills hub
What better way to prep for an action-packed year of motorcycling than by spending time brushing up on your bike control to ensure you get maximum enjoyment from every mile you ride in 2025?
MCN and BikerTek have teamed up to deliver a new online skills hub that’s bursting with invaluable riding advice to boost your riding ability through simple tips and demonstrations. Follow the team as MCN’s experienced journalists and instructor gurus, Rapid Training, demystify the rewarding art of riding better.
A new six-part video series kicks off in February 2025, but the online hub is already packed with a raft of tips tutorials that will help you tackle 18 common skills challenges that riders could encounter on every ride – from cornering to braking, tackling junctions and roundabouts, to dealing with target fixation and carrying a pillion.
Divulging secrets
If you’d prefer to grab a mug of your preferred brew, put your feet up and watch MCN’s Chief Road Tester Michael Neeves reveal everything he’s learned, there’s also four years of superb videos from his ‘Secrets of a Road Tester’ series, covering topics ranging from speed management to group riding to bike set-up, to how to ride for the conditions and how to ensure your head’s in the right place for the ride.
Whether you’re battling through Britain’s wet and windy winter weather, or tucked up indoors awaiting warmer and drier roads… there’s guaranteed to be something in these series that will transform an aspect of your riding – and boost your enjoyment. And while instruction is invaluable, so is the right attitude to riding. Neeves says: 'Having the right mindset before you even throw a leg over a motorcycle is so important and can make a ride more enjoyable and certainly a lot safer. And that mental preparation can begin the day or evening before you ride.' There are even episodes that cover setting your motorcycle up properly, as well as lots of simple but effective bike maintenance tips – and what to do if you’re the first on the scene in an emergency.
Get more from your ride
Head to www.bikertek.co.uk now to see what you can learn about the art of riding motorcycles before your next ride – and arm yourself with the skills needed to make every minute of your bike time even more rewarding in 2025.
Catch up with the story so far, and get ready for the fantastic new six-part series that will air weekly from mid-February.
New video series!
As if all of the unmissable content in the hub wasn’t enough, a whole new series of advice videos kicks off on February 19, covering such topics as setting optimal gears and speed for seamless corner-hunting progress, through to a filtering masterclass, how to be a slow-control expert, and how you can ride to be seen. Combined with all of the other videos and tips tutorials, it makes the BikerTek hub an invaluable one-stop resource for bikers who want to get more out of their bike time.