BikerDown!

UPDATED APRIL 2025:

We are delighted to announce the return of our FREE BikerDown! sessions on Thursday 24 April.

The new sessions will be run by our partners South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Dates available to book onto:

• 24 April
• 22 May
• 26 June
• 24 July
• 21 August
• 25 September

The sessions run monthly from Dearne Fire Station between 6.30pm -9.30pm.

Places are limited, please email bikerdown@syfire.gov.uk to secure your place.

ABOUT THE SCHEME:

Delivered in partnership, the free BikerDown! programme offers motorcyclists of all ages the chance to learn practical skills to help avoid being involved in a collision, as well as essential first-aid training and advice on what to do should they find themselves first on the scene where someone is injured.

The session is both classroom and practical based, giving you the awareness if you're first on scene at a collision of how to manage the area for everyone's safety, and provide basic first-aid skills if needed. 

While themed around a collision involving a rider, the skills and knowledge are equally as useful if you come across any vehicle collision whether four, three or two-wheeled.  For example, as a rider you are more likely to filter through stationary traffic and be confronted with a collision as the reason for the build-up, or come across an incident on remote country roads.

BikerDown! South Yorkshire is based on the hugely successful initiative originally devised by Kent Fire & Rescue Service.

BikerDown! South Yorkshire is open to individuals, both riders and pillions, groups of friends or riding clubs, up to a maximum of 12 attendees per session.

BikerDown! South Yorkshire is entirely FREE.