Bike Safe

[Jlo31]

Hi All,

Oh well may get flamed for being a safety Nazi but am doing a Bike Safe course this Saturday nr Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Will let you know how I get on.

I used to ride bikes and passed my test when I was 17 and progressed to a good old 1989 RD 350 but only had for a couple of years and then progressed to cars when I was 20.

Last year aged 34 I could finally afford a car and Bike (Plus convinced missus to let me have one, moved house double garage etc etc!!LOL) and bought a FZ6 Fazer. I feel pretty confident riding it, but thought for the cost of £50 could learn something that may save my life.

Wil let you know how I get on

PS Convinced my next door neighbour (CBR 600) and my Dad (CBR 600) to also attend with me!

Cheers

Jlo

[BorderHooner]

ANY instruction be it track day or advanced riding or ROSPA stuff will help you to enjoy riding.

Have a good time buddy
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[NickD]

Me and the Mrs did Bikesafe last summer from the Ace cafe. It probably didn't cover much that we weren't already aware of (after 15 years of riding) but it was a great refresher, a good jolt out of complacency, and a great value for money fun day out. Enjoy.
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[feef]

Bear in mind that Bikesafe is an assesment, with some recommendations at the end of it..

to get realy benefit, you shoud take those recommendatons and then go on an advanced training course, wher you can tell the instructor what the bikesafe outcome was, and they will help you overcome any bad habits you've got.

I recently did some advanced training, and I can't rate it highly enough.

My road speeds have increased by between 5 and 10 mph, and I'm still finding I have more visibility, and braking space than I had before, all down to improvements in road positioning.

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[Ade]

50 quid? Thats no where near as bad as I thought. Think I will look into that

Feef - How much was the advanced if you dont mind me asking?

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[Jlo31]

Thanks all for your comments.

When I was 19 (now 35) I don't remember how many of you remember Star Rider course as I did my Gold Star Rider course which was the advanced (Although Star Rider has gone to certificate worthless now) but this did really helped in to taking the correct lines around corners.

I would recomend the advanced course to anyone, however at the moment I am really busy at work, and whilst I should redo it the Bike Safe course will be a refresher and is done in a day so is convenient!

I drive for a living as well and every 2 years have to have a half day training of 'defensive driving' training.

As I said before I am a confident (and I think safe rider) however I do appreicate my bike training was a long time ago and am fully prepared to be corrected out of some bad habits.

I think if I am recomended to retake by advanced via IAM from the Bike safe course then I will make time to do it.

Am really looking foward to it.

Cheers

Jlo

[Jlo31]

If anyone is interested the link is https://www.bikesafe.co.uk/

Cheers

Jlo

[feef]

[Dazbo666]

I've been planning to do a bikesafe course, but must get the bike sorted properly first.
(I don't think they'd approve of my badly sealed/blowing exhaust at the moment... plus I need to get replacement chain and sprockets asap )
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[Syx]

Near Selly Oak? Whereabouts mate?
Considering I live there, I might be interested in doing one too.

[St0rmer66]

I did BikeSafe last month and found it very useful. I did it with my dad and sagalout from these forums .
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[Jlo31]

[Syx]

Cheers, I'll look into it!

[Jlo31]

What an excellent day we had!

Started 8.30m, breifing, coffee and then very intersting class room session until 12.30. Covered DVDs looking at positioning, filtering and looking ahead at the road IDing hazards.

Then had a biker paramedic giving a first aid session showing what to do a the scene of accident, checking airway, how to safely remove helmets etc etc.

Then Lunch and afterwards a 3 hours ride out with a bike cop.

Covered town riding and then off to bridgenorth. Pretty strict (and rightly so) on speed limits in town but in a 60 limit quite happy for me to push on 70-85 where conditions allow.

So how did I do?

Well my advanced training from 16 years ago stood me in good stead with positioning. Liked my road positioning when aprouching side turns where cars waiting to pull out (Positioning off side as long as no on coming hazard). However pointed out that even when there is not a car waiting I should still adopt the same positioning.

Did 3 overtakes, 2 were excellent, and on the third overtake there was a good straight with a slight dip and haze.

I opted to go for it and while over taking 2 cars noticed a very small turn on my right (No hazard sign showing this). As I committed I just continued.

Got picked up on the third overtake as I expected as it is strongly advisable not to overtake where there is a turn right (someone could come out from the turn turning left, just check right and pull out on me overtaking)

He was very pleased with my riding which Is good to know I am not to much of a liability on the road!!!

The Attitude of the bike cops were excellent. We were told 'they are now in safe mode with ink taken out of there ball point pen' They all have bikes of there own, few of them had R1.

And yes some of them have crashed- thus no one is perfect, however by doing some training you can greatly improve your chances and get better enjoyment from riding.

Big Thumbs up to the West Mids Bike cops. Thanks for a great day!

Highly Recomended!

Signing off

Jlo

[McGee]

I done a bike safe course as it got me out of a ticket.

Was a good day.

Glad you enjoyed it
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