PikTuk Riding school is a Kenyan registered Riding/Driving School offering motorcycle training and has partnered with the Kenyan Government to train atleast 5 million riders in the next 3 years.
Objective
Our objective is to train riders, license them under National Transport and Safety Authority-Kenya guidelines and provide information about how to keep every Kenyan safe on Kenyan roads.
Vision
Our vision is having skilled riders safe roads and empowered communities.
Picture this, an average of 2.5 - 3 million untrained and unlicensed riders wake up everyday to make 35 million trips and ferry close to 20 million people. Statistics show that between the year 2022 to 2024, 45% of all the accidents in Kenya were caused by motorcycles commonly referred to as bodaboda used as public service vehicles (PSV). The real cause for alarm is the increasing number of casualties and deaths.
Research shows less than 500 thousand riders have valid driving licenses and only a few have motor vehicle insurance. 90% of motorcycle trainings is done through apprenticeship and there could be between 3 - 4 million Kenyan youth who have learnt the skill of riding.
Kenya has only 7 registered riding schools which are deemed expensive hence corruption leading to the reluctance of many riders to acquire a valid license. Also, close to the 1,000 registered driving school centers across the country all are located in urban towns hence those in the rural areas cannot get the services of this schools.
The riding school market in Kenya is estimated to be close to 1 billion dollars / 130billion ksh with an estimated potential customer base of 6 million riders likely to grow in the next 3 years.
With increasing fatalities leading to permanent injuries or even death. The riding problem can only be tackled through entrepreneurship.