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[Stu]

Originally Posted by tomjones2

attacking every road at 100mph is not the way foward.

OK, most then?

Does anyone know thier 'refund' policy if you get the Skills for Life thing, then have an accident and can't ride - can you sorta defer your membership until you are fit again?

[tonyk]

Originally Posted by tomjones2

I really think its worth it, after passing i dont think my bike control had improved at all but my risk awareness and assement is far better. The thing that really stuck with me is the rear observations, which I got the feeling were really about looking for police, something that I now do all the time. Also the message has finally sunk in after 5 years that attacking every road at 100mph is not the way foward.

have u been riding with the thames valley lot ?
attacking every road at 100 + mph is their style.....

[Stu]

Originally Posted by K

Does anyone know thier 'refund' policy if you get the Skills for Life thing, then have an accident and can't ride - can you sorta defer your membership until you are fit again?

Best to speak to the local club you were going to but IIRC you are paying for as many runs as needed & the test whenever you take it.
But you, can't ride? seemed fine last time I saw you.

Originally Posted by tonyk

have u been riding with the thames valley lot ?
attacking every road at 100 + mph is their style.....

See this thread http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=106092

If you do it for long enough there is a pretty high likley hood of passing an unmarked police car at some point.

Originally Posted by Stu

Best to speak to the local club you were going to but IIRC you are paying for as many runs as needed & the test whenever you take it.
But you, can't ride? seemed fine last time I saw you.

This was a couple of years ago when my knee first went - the Northampton group refused to take me out (goddamn them, I paid for the hitman myself and everything ).
It took a few arguments before they admitted that I perhaps would be OK - but by that time I was well and truely tee'd off with them and so kinda let it slide.
I also had the idea in my head that you had to take the test within a year or something so thought that I'd wasted both a year and my membership...

... I s'pose I really ought to phone the IAM and find out.

Originally Posted by K

This was a couple of years ago when my knee first went - the Northampton group refused to take me out (goddamn them, I paid for the hitman myself and everything ).
It took a few arguments before they admitted that I perhaps would be OK - but by that time I was well and truely tee'd off with them and so kinda let it slide.
I also had the idea in my head that you had to take the test within a year or something so thought that I'd wasted both a year and my membership...

... I s'pose I really ought to phone the IAM and find out.

I rode with the northamptonshire group and found them nice people. A couple of really good observers ride with them. A few pretty poor ones as well though.

Yeah there were some sound folks there, but there were also a couple of more vocal 'pipe n slippers Pan European' brigade too - who seemed to have the greater say.

Originally Posted by Stu

Best to speak to the local club you were going to but IIRC you are paying for as many runs as needed & the test whenever you take it.
But you, can't ride? seemed fine last time I saw you.

I thought it was about 8/9 observed rides included in the SFL pack.

It's as many observed rides as you need, I had about 20, I had lots of bad habits to unlearn. This I found very difficult as I would concentrate on getting one element right and others would slip back into the bad. It took my over a year, The IAM head office were flexible about the rules and so was the local group.