Had a great day and learned heaps. All the volunteers where very positive and friendly. This made it so more relaxing. A big thank you to all the staff who gave up there Sunday morning to help us be a better rider. Marvellous !!!!  

I would just like to add my thanks to you for organising such a great event,being a track virgin myself, friends from TVAM said for the first track day Darley Moor is the perfect venue and they weren’t wrong, great day and even enjoyed the bit of rain.

I thoroughly enjoyed the course. The document you sent was a very nice touch – too often people attend courses and do not get the re-enforcement necessary to memorise things.  The explanation in your document is very clear, many thanks for having provided that.

Very valuable course – I’m already navigating roundabouts with greater confidence and (hopefully) ability and not afraid of having my pegs hit the tarmac on the odd occasion.    

Brilliant course all round Jackie and for me invaluable and I will probably do it again just for fun! (feel free to feed that back to TVAM!). Thank you so much for all of your communications and your support on the day (as you know I was hideously nervous!). I know this will make a massive improvement to my riding skills so looking forward to putting it into place.

I went out for a ride with my observer first time after LLR course. I have scored A for the first time in my 9 rides with my observer(Nick Caiger-Smith). I have attached a copy of the sheet. In the SYSTEM section Nick says: GOOD USE OF SYSTEM – WELL DRIVEN – LOOK LEAN & ROLL LAST WEEKEND HAS MADE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE TO YOUR MACHINE HANDLING +  CONFIDENCE.

Louise / Steve Just to say that I had the most fantastic time over the weekend. I’m just so pleased I was able to come, my new bike is now fully run in and my confidence on it has been improved so much from a great three days riding. Amazing organisation, Amazing Roads, Amazing Weather. Thanks for absolutely everything, I have already block booked all the weekends in the family calendar for the end of Sept/Oct for the next one!

What a fabulous weekend! Amazing weather, fabulous rides and lovely people in Gods own country. Huge thanks to Lou and Steve for the organisation, Steve and Ian for such brilliant runs and Dawn and Candice for being the best room-mates. :-*

I would just like to add my thanks to you for organising such a great event,being a track virgin myself, friends from TVAM said for the first track day Darley Moor is the perfect venue and they weren’t wrong, great day and even enjoyed the bit of rain.

Thanks for organising the Castle Combe day – I had a great time and have now used all the tread width on my rear tyre – even at 68 there is a first time for some things. Also please pass on my thanks to the track guides who did a great job leading sessions and giving one to one advice.  Although I was apprehensive as this was my first track day, all that disappeared once I had been led around on the first lap and after that it was all smiles as you predicted.  I have now pushed my new CBF much harder  after 1100 miles than I ever did the old one in 56,000 miles and understand a bit more of her capabilities. John

I just want to add my thanks for all the organisation that must have gone into this. I have had an amazing weekend. I have learned a lot and feel my riding has improved, which has also boosted my confidence as well.

I am very much a novice biker although am keen to gain as much information, as I can in order to progress. I found this course very helpful, in particular the principles of overtaking and steering through corners. I have done LLR but this review built on that learning and understanding. I got a bit lost on the physics bit but still all good learning! Many thanks to you and your colleagues for an enjoyable day.

I am new to IAM, but not to biking. I found this an excellent introduction to the whole advanced riding topic and I am glad I did it at the beginning of my Advanced Riding course.

I would recommend it to anyone. Every corner is a Look, Lean, Roll corner since I finished the course.

Thank you Jackie, and to everyone else for the day. I actually chose to go to work today in the rain with my new found “cornering in the wet” confidence, and I made it home! (the sight of diesel still scares me though.

Just a quick word to say thank you very much for all the effort and organisation you and your team gave to us today on the course. Definately worth the admission fee hehe, you should charge more!! especially as everyone gives their time free. Learnt so much, so thanks again.

just wanted to thank you and the team for the course yesterday, it was enjoyable and picked the always useful information – specially as we are not old bikers,  older yes, but not old to biking.….. It’s just keeping it all there. Lol. We both felt the course was very good, I was probably more interested in the cornering and overtaking, but having said that it does also help to know what happens to the bike when you do certain things, so it was all extra information that I didn’t know.  Bill felt the same really, so sorry can’t give you any constructive criticism. Thank you all very much – a very nice day.

I cannot recommend this course enough. I ride through Pirbright bends everyday, and manage the corners competently with only the occasional “OMG” moment. I rode through them again today, putting my new knowledge into practice, and had a great ride – not just quicker, but I felt much more confident and more importantly, had the knowledge that if something did go wrong, I would know what to do. I had a great day yesterday, and I can’t thank you and the other volunteers enough, especially as there are so many of you willing to help us. It was a well run course, and you were all very generous in imparting your knowledge and experience with newer riders. I feel that all the feedback and tips will improve my riding, and it was really great to learn this in a safe environment. I hope to do the course again, to really cement these techniques into my everyday riding to make me a safer rider. Hopefully, next time, I can do it in bad weather – after all, this is England. All in all, the course was an absolute bargain when I think about what I gained in terms of knowledge and confidence, and I would have no hesitation in recommending the course to any rider.

Thank you Jackie, and to everyone else for the day. I actually chose to go to work today in the rain with my new found “cornering in the wet” confidence, and I made it home! (the sight of diesel still scares me though.

At risk of sounding tediously repetitive, many thanks to all those involved who made this a great weekend. However, unlike Simon’s memorable dressing down on the first night – “you know who you are, you know what you did, enough said, don’t do it again” – I do ask for all our sakes that you DO please do it again because in my view the 7Ws weekends encapsulate all that is good at TVAM.

The explanation of the physics of a bike cornering was the best explanation I have encountered of a surprisingly difficult subject.

Brilliant course all round Jackie and for me invaluable and I will probably do it again just for fun! (feel free to feed that back to TVAM!). Thank you so much for all of your communications and your support on the day (as you know I was hideously nervous!). I know this will make a massive improvement to my riding skills so looking forward to putting it into place.

Thanks for organising the Castle Combe day – I had a great time and have now used all the tread width on my rear tyre – even at 68 there is a first time for some things. Also please pass on my thanks to the track guides who did a great job leading sessions and giving one to one advice.  Although I was apprehensive as this was my first track day, all that disappeared once I had been led around on the first lap and after that it was all smiles as you predicted.  I have now pushed my new CBF much harder  after 1100 miles than I ever did the old one in 56,000 miles and understand a bit more of her capabilities. John

Thanks for putting the course on. It’s always good to learn and there were a number of new things that I took away. It was a good re-enforcement of the IAM and police handbooks.  I liked the MiB stuff and it was useful to play with the turning circles and lean angles on the toy bikes which re-enforced the theory. Likewise the bicycle wheel also re-enforced the theory. The objectives and content of the course are very similar to the police bike safe course which is structured as half a day of theory and a few hours of practising what you have learnt. That worked well for me and I think that you could condense the content or change the pace to do something similar.

All in all a fantastic way to get to know the bike, and to receive some excellent feedback and encouragement.  The counter-steering ‘workshop’ was very useful, and definitely a good starting point.  I was also very impressed with the way the course was laid out for the practice bends.  A nice mix of tight and sweeping bends, and at no point did I feel over-crowded on the track, despite the fact that it must be tempting to accept a larger number of people as you must get a lot of people who want to attend. If there is one negative point I could volunteer, it’s that half a day is not enough – just as I was beginning to grasp the concept of counter steering and applying it to the course, it was all over!  I can , however, appreciate that the volunteers probably would like some free hours in their weekend, so it’s just a minor point! Thanks again!

I am very much a novice biker although am keen to gain as much information, as I can in order to progress. I found this course very helpful, in particular the principles of overtaking and steering through corners. I have done LLR but this review built on that learning and understanding. I got a bit lost on the physics bit but still all good learning! Many thanks to you and your colleagues for an enjoyable day.

Thanks to you and all of the team for organising and presenting the day – it’s obvious that a mass of work has gone into the preparation. Overall, a very worthwhile event that kept me engaged for the whole day. All club members can benefit from this – associates, full members & observers. The interactive style and discussion generated was great. I found Howie’s stuff on visual perception really interesting & a useful insight into possible reasons for other road user’s behaviour. I also enjoyed the discussions around videos and photos of riding situations. The stuff on bike mechanics was very good and thought provoking too – I’ve now looked up my wheelbase & trail dimensions! I think it’s quite right for this course to concentrate on what all this means to us as riders, rather than dwelling too much on the maths.

Yesterday I decided to join the Green Team B Run. What a super ride-out, ably led by Rick Watson, and back marked by Sid Collyer. We rode down lovely back roads for mile after mile, with no pressure to speed and no need to map read. We ended up at the recently refurbished Nelsons’ Diner, and I had the best bacon sandwich ever! Thanks to all involved.