This weekend I attended the RTA Pre-learner's Motorcycle course run by the RTA and Honda (St. Ives) and its was very awesome. I strongly recommend it to every one whose never been on a motorcycle before and was always curious what it would feel like. At a cost of 60 dollars for two separate 3hr courses with all the gear supplied (helmet, gloves and bike), so all you need to do is show up.
Over the two days they start from the VERY VERY basics of safety and riding technique, and slowly build it up and including more and more fundamentals. There's a significant amount of talking, but all of it is very important information, stuff that you forget and then once you ride and make a mistake, you think "oh he told me i would do that".
You start on a basketball sized court with witch's hats around. The first day you don't get a lot of time on a bike but the course moves fast enough that you dont have enough time to be bored. You cover mounting, dismounting, walking, starting, rolling, starting, and then finally riding and shifting gears. Eaach activity has like 6 key things to remember, which basically get thrown out the window once your on the bike and all your natural reflexes take over. Once you get your confidence though its a totally unique feeling to be truly riding.
The second day you spend much more time on the bike basically going around turning, stopping, emergency stopping and lastly road simulation with the instructor jumping infront of you while your riding to test your stopping abilities.
It's safe, it's challenging, it's fun and its super cheap.
Over the two days they start from the VERY VERY basics of safety and riding technique, and slowly build it up and including more and more fundamentals. There's a significant amount of talking, but all of it is very important information, stuff that you forget and then once you ride and make a mistake, you think "oh he told me i would do that".
You start on a basketball sized court with witch's hats around. The first day you don't get a lot of time on a bike but the course moves fast enough that you dont have enough time to be bored. You cover mounting, dismounting, walking, starting, rolling, starting, and then finally riding and shifting gears. Eaach activity has like 6 key things to remember, which basically get thrown out the window once your on the bike and all your natural reflexes take over. Once you get your confidence though its a totally unique feeling to be truly riding.
The second day you spend much more time on the bike basically going around turning, stopping, emergency stopping and lastly road simulation with the instructor jumping infront of you while your riding to test your stopping abilities.
It's safe, it's challenging, it's fun and its super cheap.
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