A VERY SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
KEVIN WILLIAMS
How NOT to CRASH!
Monday 7.30pm 4th November 2024, Treeton Miners Welfare,
Arundel Street, Treeton, Rotherham S60 5PW
About
Having graduated with a BSc from Kings, London, Kevin worked as a despatch rider for 16 years whilst looking for a ‘proper’ job and funding an MSc at Birkbeck, London). Having trained as an instructor in 1995, Kevin set up Survival Skills in 1997 to present an alternative style of post-test training and has gained a BTEC in advanced training and an NVQ in adult learning.
Kevin writes prolifically on rider training and motorcycling issues, contributing a regular column to ‘The Road’ since 2002. He’s been published in RiDE, Bike, Superbike and Two Wheels Only as well as The Telegraph. Better riding pieces are regularly posted on the well-supported Survival Skills Facebook page. Others can be found on the website and blog, and are often re-run in club journals.
Kevin has authored a number of books on better riding technique, including three books covering; better riding technique in a DIY format (‘Survival SKILLS’), riding ‘knowledge’ (‘Tarmac Tactics’) and mental approach (‘MIND over MOTORCYCLE’).
In 2011, Kevin created a ground-breaking rider safety presentation, ‘The Science of Being Seen’. SOBS shows how visual perception issues result in ‘looked but failed to see’ collisions between cars and bikes, investigates conspicuity strategies and proposes pro-active ways to reduce rider risk. Kevin personally delivers SOBS for Kent Fire and Rescue Service on the international award winning ‘Biker Down’ programme in Kent. A version of the presentation is delivered by a number of Biker Down teams in the UK.
Kevin has worked with a number of road safety bodies, currently on the ‘Ride Skills’ programme at Brands Hatch. Kevin is at the forefront of the ‘No Surprise? No Accident’ rider safety initiative whilst takes new ‘Safety Two’ thinking on human error and applies it to motorcycling.
In 2018 and 2019, Kevin was a keynote speaker on the four week long ‘Shiny Side Up Tour’, a New Zealand rider safety initiative, delivering SOBS to NZ riders.
