Motorcycle Riding Tips

Dr. Jim’s Riding Tips is an educational app that uses existing Motorcycle Safety Foundation self-paced safety lessons to help current motorcycle owners improve their riding skills.

Created by Dr. James Heideman, MSFs director of licensing programs, the app incorporates Heideman’s 10-video series, which is based on the MSF long-standing publication, “You and Your Motorcycle: Riding Tips.” It allows motorcyclists to use their own motorcycles to practice basic maneuvering and braking techniques at low speeds in a practice riding area of their choosing. Additionally, the mobile app shows the user how to properly prepare the riding area, set up the paths of travel and conduct the drills.

MSF’s goal with Dr. Jim’s Riding Tips is two-fold: to make accessing and understanding these basic motorcycling practice drills as easy as possible, and to help riders prepare for their states licensing test. The only prerequisite skill necessary is the basic ability to ride a motorcycle, including experience using the brakes, throttle, clutch and transmission.