So I'm not clogging up the main board with migrated topics and posts I thought it might be a good idea to reproduce my Confessions Of A Motorcycle Instructor onto our Two Wheels Good thread so here goes... I wish I'd shifted this over as a stand alone thread over three years ago when TDW started. A...

So I'm not clogging up the main board with migrated topics and posts I thought it might be a good idea to reproduce my Confessions Of A Motorcycle Instructor onto our Two Wheels Good thread so here goes... I wish I'd shifted this over as a stand alone thread over three years ago when TDW started. A...

I must say that out of the two or three instructors working at our school I had the largest difference between my on and off duty riding styles which isn't necessarily a good thing. At one point the senior instructor banned me from wearing my instructor's tabard when off duty. Another interesting p...

I must say that out of the two or three instructors working at our school I had the largest difference between my on and off duty riding styles which isn't necessarily a good thing. At one point the senior instructor banned me from wearing my instructor's tabard when off duty.

DodgeRover wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:54 pm Do you think you had a higher pass rate as they hadn't had time to ride on their own and develop bad habits?

Very much so, especially regarding observation procedures.

Although if the punter owned something like a CBR600 with a lot of plastic we'd never advise them learning on it as dropping it on a U Turn would be expensive. The exception was a disabled guy who had a specially adapted 600 Thundercat/Thunderace.

I'd have never advised my DAS punters to buy a 125. Far better to buy that 600 Bandit/Hornet and maybe spunk another £45 on an extra two hour DAS lesson before their test. Our pass rate on the 500s was higher than that of our 125 pupils. But I can't (officially) ride a Bandit on the road until I pa...

Get an old RD125LC or TZR125, any of the mid to late 1980s two stroke machines will do. Restricted they will do 70mph, derestricted they will do 90mph and more, they handle well, have good brakes and feel more like a proper motorcycle than modern four stroke strangled machines will. When the time c...

75% of DAS learners who'd already bought a big bike passed first time. All except one of the others (Danny Six Tests) passed second time.

125 to get some extra practice & experience of being on the road riding a bike, if you're doing the odd lesson here & there. But full DAS either way. ^^^ this, there's no substitute for road experience, a 125 is quick enough to have fun on but get you used to corners, frightening yourself e...