Initial Basic Training (IBT)
Learn the Skills. Ride with Confidence.
Initial Basic Training (IBT) was introduced in December 2010 and updated on 19 January 2013.This course can only be delivered by RSA-certified IBT instructors and is designed to help learner motorcyclists gain the essential skills and knowledge for safe riding.
Your First Step to Safe Riding
IBT provides the foundation for motorcycling by teaching you how to handle your bike safely, understand road rules, and prepare for real-world riding conditions.
For more information, visit the RSA website or simply call us today.
What You’ll Learn
- Personal Protective Equitment (PPE)
- Introduction to motorcycle controls
- Technical checks
- Placing motorcycle on and off the stands
- Walking alongside the motorcycle
- How to start and stop the engine including precations for mounting and dismounting
- Moving off and stoping (includes on site riding)
- Use of Brakes
- Use of gears
- Slow riding
- Figure of 8 exercise
- U-turn exercise
- Slalom exercise
- Rear Observations and mirrorwork
- Legal Requirments
- Rules of the road
- Being seen
- Road Surfaces
- Road and lane postion
- Rear observations and mirrors
- Speed
- Anticipation and reaction including dealing with emergency service vehicles
- Weather conditions (including modal choices and route planning)
- Fatigue
- Gradients
- Junctions
- Traffic Lights
- Roundabouts
- Safe distances
- Anticipation and reaction to hazards including dealing with emergency services vehicles
- Pedestrian & rail crossing ( Rail where possible )
- Bends
Module 5 covers modules 2 and 4
By completing IBT, you’ll have the skills, awareness, and confidence to ride safely on Irish roads.