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Why Trust Matters When It Comes to Motorcycle First Response Training
There’s no shortage of people willing to teach you something these days. A quick search online turns up videos, social media posts, and self-proclaimed experts offering tips on what to do when a fellow rider goes down. Some of it is well-intentioned. Some of it is dangerously wrong. And in an emergency, you won’t have time to sort out which is which.
So how do you know if what you’re learning is actually going to help, or hurt, someone when it counts most?
That’s where accreditation changes everything.
Accident Scene Management (ASM) by Road Guardians, is the largest motorcycle trauma training organization in the world, and the only one accredited in the USA. We hold accreditation through CAPCE (the Commission on Accreditation for Prehospital Continuing Education), which means our curriculum has been met rigorous standards by the same body that oversees continuing education for EMRs, EMTs, AEMTs, and Paramedics. That’s not a rubber stamp, it’s a rigorous standard that holds us accountable to the medical community.
What does that mean for you as a student? It means the skills you’re learning have been vetted by medical professionals, not just passed along from rider to rider like a game of telephone. It means our content is built on evidence-based practices, not guesswork or outdated information. We have a program committee made up of an ER physician, Flight nurse/paramedic, and a Rural Critical Care Paramedic who meet regularly to review materials and evaluations making sure that our program reflects current standards of care.
Our instructors aren’t just passionate riders, they complete training and agree to terms before they ever stand in front of a class. Lead instructors are EMT or higher in medical training, or they are a Level Two (Assisting instructor) who has been teaching long enough that they can be signed off by a Lead who has been teaching with them. Our instructors know what they’re talking about because they’ve been trained, tested, and credentialed.
We’ve trained over 50,000 students across the United States and internationally — in South Africa, Australia, the Philippines, Bulgaria, and beyond. That reach didn’t happen because we just showed up and talked. It happened because riders, clubs, and communities trusted that what we offered was real, accurate, and potentially life-saving.
After a crash, there is a gap of anywhere from 5 to 55 minutes before an ambulance arrives. What happens in that window of time matters. You deserve training you can trust and that will connect you to the EMS when that moment comes.
Don’t settle for “someone told me”, when your riding buddies lives are on the line. Get trained by the organization that both riders and professionals trust most. The one that answers to a higher standard so that you never have to wonder if what you learned was correct.
But don’t just take it from us: Here is what one of our students wrote to us last weekend:
“I wanted to express my appreciation for the outstanding class you taught on trauma scene management this Saturday. Ray and I worked 48 Years in Trauma, ICU, Air and ambulance transport, and have attended countless courses on the topic. Yours was the most engaging, evidence-based and well delivered we have participated in. Thank you.
Today I accidentally deeply sliced 2/3 of the tip of my left pinky finger while harvesting basil in the garden. I held pressure on it for 45 minutes, checking every 15 but it would immediately start a fast ooze of blood. I finally gave up and asked Ray to apply a pressure dressing. He did it so well I have not seen any blood come through in the last 2 hours. Throbbed so hard I had to divert to desk work for the rest of the day, but typing is a challenge! No more throbbing.
Tell your next class what they learn is useful for more than motorcycle crashes.”
What experiences have you had? Have you used your training? Want more information for your group? We would love to hear from you.
