So it was with some interest that I noticed a new programme buried in the back catalogue available on my BT Vision box (obviously not in the box, but via the internet connection ;) ).
Featuring Todd Colbert, it's the ambitiously-titled:
"Everything you need to know about learning to ride a motorcycle from safety and maintenance to riding the street"
Or similar. I got bored half way through writing it all down.
It manages to achieve (?) all this in half an hour.
"Featuring Todd Colbert" OK . . . he presents the information, but in case you don't know his name (I didn't) there's 4 (yes, four) minutes introducing him by showing various magazine covers and articles. This isn't even rostrum camera (is Ken Morse still the king of rostrum - it always used to be his name in the TV credits?), but a roving camera over framed pages and photos.
The programme rattles on with an introduction to clothing, bike controls, maintenance, moving the bike around, and eventually - 20 minutes in - the key's turned and the bike started up.
Basic machine control exercises follow, including cluth (sic) control :)
Then the final section: "What Not To Do".
This doesn't feature Todd riding, but is a short list of things not to do, each illustrated by a clip - some I'd seen many times before - of riders (usually failing stunt riders) getting it wrong.
The video links to "learntoride.com" so out of interest I had a look at that site. It auto-redirects to "crashclipsforsale.com". Well, if you have a clip, don't send it to You've been framed - at least, not if the clip prices on that site are anything to go by!
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