From the first MCrider video to the most recent MCrider video, you will find them all on this page. Kevin releases a new motorcycle training video every Friday morning at 8 AM Central on the MCrider YouTube page. Use the links below to find videos focussed on Road Skills, Road Strategy, and a host of other motorcycle training topics.
Cold weather riding takes more than heated gloves and a warmer jacket. When the temperature drops, your motorcycle tires take longer to build grip, and your cold hands make your braking and throttle inputs slower and rougher than you realize, even if you’ve been riding for decades. In this video, we talk about what cold…
Brake checking a tailgater on a motorcycle might feel like the right way to get a driver off your bumper, but it puts nearly all the risk on the rider. In this video I share a real road-rage encounter that started with nothing more than a flash of my taillights and ended with a driver…
Riding a motorcycle that isn’t yours, whether it’s a rental on a tour, a demo ride at a dealership, or a new bike you just brought home, takes more adjustment than many experienced riders expect. Your hands learned the clutch and front brake on your own bike, and those habits don’t carry over the way…
Riding at night feels more dangerous, but the reason usually isn’t the one people assume. In this video we look at three real reasons night riding is riskier than day riding: how far your headlight actually lets you see and react to what’s ahead, why the odds of sharing the road with an impaired driver…
Riding in a group changes how you make decisions on a motorcycle, and most riders don’t notice it happening until the leader gets it wrong. In this video I tell a real story from a motorcycle dealership demo ride in Dallas, where the group leader made a last-second wrong turn in heavy highway traffic that…
Reaction time, vision, and grip strength all change as you get older — and most riders never adjust their technique to keep up with it. In this video, a clip of Hulk Hogan pulling a motorcycle into a parking lot raises a simple question: if it wasn’t strength holding that bike up, what was? Whether…
Years of seat time build reflexes you don’t have to think about anymore, but muscle memory doesn’t check whether the move underneath it is correct. In this video I walk through a real crash from one of my MSF training classes: a rider who was doing everything right. I break down the physics of exactly…
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Riding in a group feels safer than riding alone — more eyes on the road, more people looking out for you. But the habits that keep you safe solo don’t automatically carry over once four or five other riders fall in behind you, and most riders never notice the difference until something goes wrong. In…
You make a slow-speed turn almost every time you ride — parking, backing out of a driveway, pulling up to a gas pump — and most riders have never gone back to check whether the technique still holds up. In this video, I break down three specific habits that quietly work against you at walking…
Somewhere in a parking lot years ago, an instructor set up two rows of cones and taught you to swerve. At 15 miles an hour, in a controlled space, that swerve works every time — so most of us filed it away as a skill we own. But the swerve you practiced at 15 changes…
I had a motorcycle death wobble at 45 mph — on a brand new front tire. In this video, I show you the actual footage of my speed wobble, explain what causes a death wobble (sometimes called a tank slapper), and walk through exactly what your hands should do the moment the handlebars start shaking.…
Most riders spend 20, 30, even 40 years building motorcycle habits they’ve never once tested — and some of those habits were wrong from the start, while others quietly stopped being true the moment the technology moved on. In this video, MCrider breaks down the riding and emergency braking habits that experienced riders rely on…
Are you unknowingly pushing your brain past its breaking point on every ride? In this motorcycle safety training video, I break down the hidden psychological trap that forces riders into sudden tunnel vision and dangerously slow reaction times on the street. While many motorcyclists focus solely on defensive riding drills and physical lane positioning, the…
If your strategy for staying alive on a motorcycle relies on watching the brake lights of the car directly in front of you, you are riding on borrowed time and letting someone else’s reaction time dictate your survival. In this video, I break down the “bumper lock” trap that keeps most riders stuck in a…
In this episode of MC Rider, we break down the sobering reality of the “Familiar Road Trap”—the psychological phenomenon explaining why more than half of all serious motorcycle crashes occur within just five miles of a rider’s home. When we ride our daily routes, the brain shifts into autopilot, relying on “cognitive scripting” and creating…
In this video, we break down why your natural self-preservation instincts are often the exact wrong response when riding a motorcycle through a curve. When panic hits mid-corner, your brain triggers a hardwired threat response that causes you to lock your eyes on danger, cut a dangerous “survival line” into the turn too early, or…
In this episode of MCrider, we’re breaking down why your natural human survival instincts are actually your worst enemy when you have to make an emergency stop on a motorcycle. When a sudden hazard appears and adrenaline takes over, our brains default to three dangerous traps: grabbing a “Handful of Panic” on the front brake,…