Moderate skilled rider training.

[Squeak the Rat]

Hi I am a 19yo student who got his full liscence and first larger bike over christmas. The more i ride the bike and the more i get comfortable with the bike and the more i read this forum, the more i find that there is so much more that i dont know. I am wondering whether there are courses or track days that would help me devolop my riding skill (in or around christchurch).

You could take a short blat to Dunedin this weekend to do an RRRS course. See CaN's post in http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...t=28049&page=2 or below....

I've since talked to some one who did one of these courses and he rated it highly. He was an intermediate-experienced rider who had a break for about 5 years and said it was a great skills refresh. Good mix of theory & practice.
STR

Quite easy really.

Do you look through the corner.
You should be as you always follow where you look.

Therein lies the problem. You tend to look at the vanishing point. As you do (look to the vanishing point) you look across the centre line on a right hander. Therefore that is where you go.

If you find yourself often wandering across the centre line try looking a little shorter, say to the point on the road where the LHS seal edge and centreline meet (obviously this point will move).

You get dozens of helpful tips such as this when you attend a RRRS course.

Ride Right Ride Safe.

It is a motorcycle skills course run by BRONZ and is aimed at beginner to intermediate level.

It is run by bikers for bikers not profits, hence the cost is small ($45.00) but the content is not lacking.

Look at the calander for the next course.

Incidentally it is going on the road a bit soon including Dunedin this weekend, Palmerston North and the Mount(?) in the near future so if peoples from these parts are interested please let me know and I will se if there is space available. Prices for the other centres vary a bit though.

[petesmeats]

Yeah i would be keen as if i werent in wellington for the holidays...