Any Motorcyle Instructors on here?

[BoltonSte]

As title really, I have a couple of questions.

Why don't you ask the general populous on here as were a relatively smart bunch!

[BoltonSte]

Umming and Ahhhing if it's for me or not.

Not officially but I'll gladly bark instructions at other road users who I feel fall below par

[maviczap]

Ex part time CBT instructor, I can't offer much experience, but perhaps I can help?

From what I've heard from some instructors I know, it's long hours and the pays not great so it depends how much you want to do it.

Think Dizz was considering this a couple of years ago, she went to spend a day with a school to see what it was like I think...maybe drop her a line...or keep it on here so other folk can make use of advice

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by phil24_7

From what I've heard from some instructors I know, it's long hours and the pays not great so it depends how much you want to do it.

Yes, that's the nub of it.

I did it almost as a hobby, just a bit of extra pocket money, so it was fun for me (most of the time )

But I wouldn't do it as a full time job, there's a lot of big costs involved, namely insurance. Which is why the guy I subbed for sold his business.

He's still doing it, but works for a big local firm

[Jayneflakes]

My other half is a Senior Motorcycle Instructor Trainer and trained riders and Instructors for fifteen years. Her last student was me ( You can use your imagination as to how I paid for my lessons! ) and with her help I Passed first time. I was more proud of passing my bike test than I was of getting my degree and promptly told her so.

She gave up training in the end because as the most senior person she was working all of the time from spring right though until the end of Autumn and then scrabbling for what ever she could get throughout the winter. The hours were long, she worked every weekend and most days during the week and then when she was not teaching, she was doing the paper work that kept the training centre running.

In all it is a hard job with not much financial reward. However, when ever we go to a biker pub in the region some one comes and says hello and informs her that she got them through their bike test and set them free as a biker. I love seeing that bit, but when she tells me about the numpties she was forced to train, the miles she put onto her precious bike and how in the end she could not afford to service the machine she so loved, I know that she made the right choice in giving up.

This sounds negative, but the sad truth is that she gave up out of necessity, not because she stopped loving the job. I think that part of her will always love the joy of seeing a struggling trainee start to get it right and then find their way with a bike and the beaming smile that produced.

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

This sounds negative, but the sad truth is that she gave up out of necessity, not because she stopped loving the job.

Sadly, I fear this will happen to the school I learned with, the guy is a top bloke and was much better than the school I did my CBT with, I know with the cost of petrol he was having to but his prices up, but reluctant to do so for the fear reducing interest further.

Now with the new rules, I imagine that hasn't helped the situation, having to buy new bikes for the 46 bhp thing. Along with reducing the number of under 24s wanting to do their tests.

I have been doing my best to take mates as pillions and so far managed to get one to buy a 125cc and he'll be going to the school I used for his CBT this month.

On the flip side, car instructors are 10 a penny, and increasing fast, it seems.