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Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker
You ain't half going to be disappointed if you find out it is cycling proficiency  |
Ha ha ha brilliant DT .....thankfully it wasn't a cycling proficiency
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Originally Posted by Bibio
nice one m8. your going to learn loads.
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I certainly did.
That was a thoroughly enjoyable couple of days.
on Wednesday the very nice people at ProScot came along with some of their bikes (125's and 650's). They gave people that had never ridden a bike before a chance to "have a go" on the 125's and an area was set up on the airfield for them to get basic lessons on bike control.
Another area was set up for people that could ride but didn't have a licence so they got to have a go on the 125's as well.
Another area was set up to represent the test area for the new updated test. There was 7 of us on the day that had licences but had never passed doing the new test so we were put through that and it was good fun. I was only picked up on one thing and that was that i probably wasn't up to the correct speed for the emergency stop and swerve. There was no speed recording device so our actual speeds were not recorded.
In the afternoon we had Fife Constabulary Traffic Officers give us a talk and explained about BikeSafe riding techniques.
Today we were split into groups (morning and afternoon). there were 2 police bikes so 2 of us went with each police officer. I started off first in our group and went a few miles then we stopped to discuss my riding position and use of the road. The other bloke in our group took the next section of the road then the copper led for a bit for us to see how he uses the road. This went on for a while swapping over regularly.
Unfortunately during one of my leads my bike which had been playing up for the last 2 days decided to completely die on my.
Thankfully i had some tools with me and was able to fix the problem
Felt really silly when i realised what the problem was but was very proud of myself for getting the bike running again!
I have learnt a lot from doing this course and hopefully it will make me a better rider on roads that i do not know! Time will tell and as long as i put what i learnt into practice then i shouldn't slow everyone down when out on ride outs.