Bronze, Silver and Gold courses are a whole day.
Scooter Survival and Urban Commuter courses are half days.
Lots of people want to do training at weekends, which is, ironically, why I gave up motorcycle training full time. Working every weekend became a tad tedious. Mates would be out having fun on bikes, while I was working, and I was off when they were working.
This is an avenue worth exploring. Incentivising employers to give their staff a work day to undergo training in the interest of staff H&S. Worth looking into.
Remember though, please, I am not in the job until mid January. I'm just looking for inspiration at this stage. I don't want to irritate my new boss (sorry DK) buy appearing too keen.
on ya rastus, sometimes like beating ya head against a brick wall this training thing, my answer to the idiots who keep blaming others is pretty standard now,
"if ya so sure its them then isn't it better to be a better rider to avoid those situations"
ya can't fix stupid tho
Interesting and timely... I was going along one of my favourite roads on Sunday, tipping into an uphill left hander. Rider 2up coming the other way must have got quite the surprise judging by the way he stood the bike up. That said, with his wheels either on my side of the road or very close to it (exact location wasn't my immediate priority) as you say, riders always expect something slow and lumbering, not a quick moving motorcycle.
Inspiration? You're new to this govt job gig eh?
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Hate to say it but I think you are on a hiding to nothing. You can play around the edges but in the end bikes are unstable, invisible to some motorists and riders are relatively unprotected. We will continue to feature in the crash stats because of the first two points and will continue to be overrepresented in DSI crashes because of the last one.
Just bang another 500 bucks on our rego, that should get rid of a few more riders and improve the stats. Sorry, I am a big cynic when it comes to all of this.
Good luck with the job.
Pipe cleaners should be hi-viz btw.
I've worked in frustrating roles quite a lot. Mostly related to road safety. Theres always thing you can do to influence individuals.
There is no end game, no nirvana where everyone is safe all the time. But giving up trying is a bit defeatist.
Theres a spectrum. At one end there are those who just wont engage with education. At the other end are those who actively seek it out. In the middle are those who will engage if they arev incentivised sufficiently to overcome their reluctance.
Incentives might be intrinsic, or extrinsic. It's the incentives to engage that I see as the key.
So we used to use leather strips, but the zip puller eventually breaks one day and small key rings do well as replacement and don't really need extra adornment. But I'm not closed to trying new things. Where would one find a pipe cleaner? We had some Draino somewhere.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Welcome to the home of NZ's most most popular bike route*
*by volume of bikes
Just don't crash on it, I see way too many ambos go that way
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