Originally Posted by
Strchr03
Just thought I’d give an update as I asked you guys a while ago on where to go for beginner training. I hope it might help anyone else getting into riding and save them scrolling up through thousands of posts to get back to Tony’s original journey!
Ended going with my original thought of the bmw rookie to rider scheme. Training finally went ahead with the BMW rider school in Royston. I cannot recommend them highly enough, lovely set of guys and gals up there who take you through at a pace your comfortable and give great individual feedback.
The first part of the 7-day course is the cbt which they do on the bmw g310r. Single cylinder bike that’s nice and light for you to get used to riding round a car park and take first steps on the road. The guy with me had been riding a KTM Duke 125 around London for a year or so and found it was a sufficient step up from that to be a worthwhile use of a couple of days.
The next days of the training were on f750gs bikes. Given the recent stretch about adv bikes, thought I’d just mention that they seemed perfectly capable bikes (from my novice point of view), nice and docile at low revs but started to take off when you get up through the revs. Comfy and easy to ride.
First we were back in the car park to do the mod1 practice with lots of cones, the guys had great tips for making it easy and after a day or so we both got the hang of doing all the manoeuvres without dragging the rear brake.
Next out on the roads. Gotta say that getting on the roads was mostly functional rather than fun, the instructors were very thorough and really prepare you for the test as well as being safe on the roads, but you don’t end up doing many fun turns…
So I passed both mod 1 and mod 2, which was great, and now thinking of actually getting a bike, which is proving a harder decision than first anticipated! I’m sure I’ll get there soon though! Can’t wait!
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