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UPDATED and IMPROVED FOR 2007
- Worried about whether you are up to advanced training?
- Want an independent opinion on your riding?
- Just want to meet your instructor before you commit yourself to a course?
Take a Riding Assessment with Survival Skills for £50
Survival Skills is now running 3 hour riding assessments, costing just £50, where you can have your riding checked out by a qualified instructor and then
be recommended the best course to continue your development as a rider.
You'll complete a written self-assessment by email before turning up on the day for the assessment. Over a coffee, we'll have a general knowledge talk
about areas like suspension set up, maintenance, tyres and theft awareness.
Following an on-road briefing, you'll get about 90 mins on the road. The ride will cover everything from fast dual carriageways to busy town centre traffic
to sweeping A roads to twisty and bumpy minor roads.
As part of the session, you'll be treated to a full commentary ride using the radio link.
We'll chat about your ride at the end of the session, watching specific issues on the on-bike video footage (weather permitting), and discuss a short safety
video. A full written debrief on the session will be emailed to you as soon as possible, together with recommendations for further training and the on-bike video footage (if available).
Assessments usually run weekdays and weekends in two time slots:
09:30 to 12:30 - 14:00 to 17:00
OR
weekday evenings (summer only) 18:00 to 21:00
The riding assessment costs £50 per person.
Maximum trainee to assessor ratio is 2:1.
E-mail us now to check available dates and to reserve your assessment.
What they say
This is what riders who has taken the assessment had to say about it:
From Mike Sladden
The assessment started off with written answers to a series of questions covering various aspects of riding. Good questions too, quite
searching actually. The next section of the assessment was verbal and covered many different areas relating to riding and biking in general, I
wasn't expecting it to be so comprehensive, no offence, so I was pleased to find so many areas were covered.
Right, on to the ride. We ran through what we were going to do and I got a brief warning to keep the speed within sensible limits but to ride
as I normally would. On with the radios and then we jumped onto the bikes, the roads we started on are single carriageway suburban country roads, I wasn't nervous but I was reminded of my bike test –
that's the last time I was under instruction via radio. We pulled into the first garage so Kevin could fill up [Editor's note - dratted Hornet petrol
tank!] and I got another polite warning to keep the speed down. Sorry. From the garage, the roads led us into the main town, traffic was fairly
light but due to road works, we ended up in a few queues at temporary traffic lights.
Having spent about 10 minutes riding round the town, we pulled into a car park. I got a run down from Kevin on how I was doing so far.
The next stage of the ride took us onto some sweeping motorway and then onto some A roads, there were a few other bikes about despite
the low temperatures. From there we moved onto some urban A roads which then took us onto some great fast and flowing bends.
Next, we rode some single track roads, they were muddy in places and there were some large piles of snow on both sides, Kevin told me there
has been drifts about 3 feet deep a few days previously so I'm glad I missed them.
The final sections were small town, fast A roads and then national limit single carriageway roads which were great fun. I really enjoyed
winding it on a bit along them. I had to stand on the pegs for quite a lot of it because they were so bumpy. They reminded me of a rideout last year in Surrey.
Back at Kevin's we ran through the ride and how I did, and watched and discussed a Bikesafe video. It was so useful to have a qualified
instructor break down my riding and explain how to improve what I do, Kevin's explanations and advice have gelled what I have learned into a
more structured set of skills rather than a collection of "it has worked so far so I'll keep doing it" techniques.
I wish I had done something like this years ago, would I recommend it? Yes, without reservation.
So... now the sun is shining, and for just £50, what are you
waiting for?
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"Just a quick note to say thank you very much for your time and wisdom on Saturday, I always read stuff and try and implement it, but I guess it goes to
show there is no substitute for someone else's observations and experience... once I've sold my soul for me new leathers I'll be in touch about further training as discussed." Mark Garlard
"I wish I had done something like this years ago, would I recommend it? Yes, without reservation." Mark Sladden
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Don't forget our courses in France.
If you're new to riding on the other side of the road, you can take our Continental Riding course, or alternatively Survival Skills two day advanced and
Bends one day courses can now be taken in Northern France.
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