Diabetes is a condition which affects blood sugar levels. In turn, this can reduce your ability to drive well due to changes in your coordination, concentration, alertness and vision. Having diabetes doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to give up…
Visualisation is the process of running through a scene in your mind before you do something – like a mental rehearsal. By visualising (or imagining yourself doing something) you activate the same parts of your brain as you would use…
If you’ve got a practical driving test on Wednesday 15 October 2014 it might be cancelled because some driving examiners who are members of the Public and Commercial Service Union are planning a strike. Theory driving tests are not affected.…
In this first article in a series we’re going to look at different methods of helping you pass your driving test, the first of which is affirmations. Affirmations are commonly used by elite sportspeople and business leaders, but also by…
Two common types of crashes on a motorbike are the lowside and highside crash. Both of them start with one of the wheels beginning to slide from underneath the rider, but they end in spectacularly different outcomes. Riders would prefer to…
Next week the fee for a car or motorbike driving theory test will fall by £6, taking the cost of a test from £31 to £25. Other categories of vehicle also benefit with a reduction, as shown in the table below.…
A pillion passenger is a passenger that sits behind the rider on a motorbike. The Highway Code doesn’t say much about carrying pillion passengers – just some very basic rules and no guidelines at all, so we got some input…