As enjoyment is the main goal for the majority of riders, rather then risk seeking, interventions must be built around safe enjoyable riding rather than trying to convert riders from being ‘risk junkies’.  Interventions also need to consider demographical differences that relate to enjoyment seeking.  For example younger riders are more likely to gain Rush Based Enjoyment than older riders.  Therefore, for interventions one side does not fit all.

An intervention that is skills training based needs to be designed with care as an increase of skills can also increase the threshold where task demand approaches capability due to increase, or perceived increase, in capability.   A basic level of skills are needed to ride, and it is not suggested that these, or more advanced skills, should not be taught.  With any skills training, the rider needs to be inoculated against riding harder and faster because of the training.  To accomplish this some psychological techniques could be employed.

With new skills should come a way for rider to assess that the new skills are being used correctly (self assessment).  With helmet cameras becoming cheaper and more accessible it is now practical for riders to record their rides and then for the footage to be reviewed by the rider to evaluate it against what they had been taught.  However equipping riders with helmet cameras may also cause problems due to audience effect by proxy, that showing off by riding in a way that they feel will be acceptable to their peers.

As a riders behaviour is an interaction of the environment and the characteristics of a person then an intervention that changes the characteristics of a rider may also change the way that they ride.  By concentrating on the goals of riding, i.e. enjoyment, interventions can be built to teach riders techniques that reduce the risk of riding, but not the enjoyment.  Any intervention that negatively affects the goals of a rider is unlikely to have a positive effect.

Riders ride because they enjoy it, finding enjoyment in a combination of rush and challenge.  Both of these elements need to be considered when interventions for PTWs are being designed.  Further to this, riders also view risk in three distinct ways, some not enjoying risk, some accepting a level of risk to gain enjoyment and a small minority who enjoy risk.  It is theorised that riders who seek risk are more likely to have an accident, and therefore could be specifically targeted by safety interventions.

One of the main aspects of any intervention must be to respect the goal of enjoyment – attempting to remove this goal will only alienate those whom the intervention is designed to help.