Duration: One-day Cost: £90 Ratio: 3 to 1
Target: New riders with basic skills or returning riders perhaps on a new bike or after a long break
Requirements: Full licence, own bike, own equipment
RideSafe Training Advanced Skills Level 1, is the first, in a series of three courses. The course provides in-depth rider training teaches techniques and procedures progressively further advanced than the DAS course. In this level 1 course, for novice and returning riders, the skills taught will transform your riding. If you want to continue to our level 2 course, level 1 must have already been completed unless you have undertaken a riding assessment by one of our advanced instructors.
The Level 1 course consists of activities that target personal risk management, self-assessment strategies and on-bike exercises with an emphasis on cornering, braking and avoidance.
The course comprises a number of the following:
Advanced Braking
- Understand braking and panic braking
- Learn how to bring your bike to a halt safely, quickly and confidently
Hazard Avoidance and non avoidance
- Learn to deal with unexpected hazards
- Learn how to control the bike with confidence and avoid unexpected hazards
- Learn how to deal with a hazard that you cannot avoid
Bike Control – Slow Speed
- Improve confidence and learn techniques for controlling your bike at slow speeds
Using our 6 lane runway and connecting roads:
- Learn how to develop intuitive and delicate changes of speed when riding within a group
- Learn how to use safe and intelligent positioning when riding in groups
- Learn how to route plan and route management within a group
