How many of you have had professional coaching to improve your road riding

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Have you had professional coaching for road riding

Yes
18
44%
No
18
44%
I "learned" from others as i went along
2
5%
I dont need no steenkin coach, i am a riding god
3
7%
 
Total votes: 41

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weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:02 pm Tell you what i'll do here...

I'll throw in the pot the price for a day for any 'regular' to have a day/session with Spin. As long as both parties are open to it being a completely open discussion/review at the end of it. I don't mind which person does the course out of us all, but has to be a regular poster who's experienced on a bike.

Fair ?
Thanks but I'll pass on that. I'm not looking for a hand-out from the forum.

FWIW I ran a course for a nice bloke on Thursday last week on the back of a recommendation from someone on here. Maybe he'll pop his head over the parapet and give you his impressions of the session.
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Potter wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:15 am I kind of feel this has got too personal and I apologise for that, it's ended up a bit ming-mongy and obviously some of my comments have been aimed at the people I'm disagreeing with on this thread but I think it's fair to say that I've never met any of the instructors here and I'm arguing based on my experience with other instructors.
Accepted, and returned with a reciprocal 'sorry' for getting hot under the collar myself.

The offer of the free SOBS e-book for your lad still stands BTW.
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Now it's all kissy and nice.

Can we get back to the fight, before we need to get the Bumming hat out?
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:38 pm Now it's all kissy and nice.

Can we get back to the fight, before we need to get the Bumming hat out?
Your sparkly sandels should send people running for cover.
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:38 pm Now it's all kissy and nice.

Can we get back to the fight, before we need to get the Bumming hat out?
Yeah! About those track instructors, what a bunch of sanctimonious racer wannabees huh! :evil:



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Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:12 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:38 pm Now it's all kissy and nice.

Can we get back to the fight, before we need to get the Bumming hat out?
Yeah! About those track instructors, what a bunch of sanctimonious racer wannabees huh! :evil:



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Yeah. All wankers :banana-dance:
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Yorick wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:15 pm
Taipan wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2021 3:12 pm

Yeah! About those track instructors, what a bunch of sanctimonious racer wannabees huh! :evil:

:D
Yeah. All wankers :banana-dance:
Finally he says something sensible ;)

Missed the last few pages as i was busy doing other stuff ..... if weeksy wants to nuke the thread as its his train set, feel free. Seems like everyone is playing nice now so the thread will probably sink away ;)
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Not sure if my mate will join the forum, I have sent him a link so hopefully he will.

Anyway. As some of you know my mate got a Street Triple as his first bike in 20 years and sadly went on to come off it on his 3rd ride :thumbdown: Before he bought a bike I thought training might help given he'd been off a bike for so long and I recommended either a training school, Spin or some of the other guys that run training including a link I got from Bennetts.

After he got his bike back he said he'd decided to do some training and booked Spin for last week. I spoke to him yesterday and he said he thought it was really useful and he was really happy with it. As I said earlier I've never had training myself as not felt the need, but think it has it's place and I think I would if there was an area of riding I wanted to improve.
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Hot_Air wrote: Mon Jul 12, 2021 6:11 pm
Dickyboy wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2021 7:25 pm if you are really serious about saving bikers lives you need to pass this on to someone who can update it and present a slick video. Best wishes & not wishing to offend.
@Dickyboy is right, and it's good feedback for Spin. I imagine the issue could be budget, graphic design know-how or available time?
Musing on this, it needs to go further, be far more ambitious.

Michael Ball plays Spin, in the musical.

But I think it would be less Les Mis, more Spamalot ...

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Even bland can be a type of character :wave: