Best of luck in the new role , will catch up with you when they send you to the Burt Munroe rally in February. You will be a asset to Dave and his team .they do a great job.
Big shoes to fill indeed. DK has done a great job.
Sadly the ones that need the most are the least likely to attend, then complain about ACC costs.
I do wonder if "type" training ads would be of use. So Cruiser specific training, then sport bike etc. Its the same really under the skin but a different way to hook attention.
I remember years ago the Police spent a day near Featherston stopping every rider coming off the Remutaka Hill for a friendly chat. I was impressed. No WOF or rego or licence checking, even if it was glaringly obvisious to them, just asking if we were interested in road safety courses or something along those lines. I think they had questionnaires for us abut riding and safety.
Happiness is a means of travel, not a destination
I need a new word for "safe".
Ride Forever courses, without doubt, scientifically proven, improve riders safety. But few people will go along to become safer. "Safe" is about as dull as an old English penny.
What words would attract you to do a course?
This applies right across the driver education sphere. Put the word "safe" in a course and it sounds dull.
With training, the fun goes when you are still learning. Regardless of what you are training to do. Learning new ways to help yourself keep safe can be hard work ... but the chance of living longer should make the time spent worthwhile. But the value is noticeable when you put the training into practice on a ride ... and find they were right.
A large proportion of my motorcycling is fun. But on a number of trips ... long distance (going home) in the rain and wind (the odd time in the dark as well) it is far from fun. And when circumstances repeat itself ... we (well most of us) do it again. Such is motorcycling.
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
become a better rider,improve your riding,become visible.Training should be free we all pay a extra levy to the acc on top of our "no fault" levy
Ride smarter - Ride better - Ride home - Ride forever
Cheesy and impossible for us mortals.
Manopausal.
The harsh reality might be that any post-licence training creates two broad groups of riders.
One group becomes safer (and in the process often faster as well) whereas the other group now merely crashes at a higher speed.
We need to appeal to someone's ego to attend a course, then put a leash on that ego during the course, while we alter their outlook.
Had a chap today who was astonished how an eye lead time of 12 seconds or more made him faster, whilst feeling slower, all because he now has more "time to react" now where have I read that before?? Oh and safer as well, which wasn't lost on him, yet he got more excited about going faster.
Can't see ACC being keen to promote R4E along the lines of "be faster than your riding mates" anytime soon though.
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