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| Your Thoughts on Q ride
Posted: 6/6/2008 12:00:31 AM | I don't know how Q ride operates.
I did the M.E.T.A.L. {Motor Cyclist Training Education & Licensing} in Darwin NT in '99 after not riding for 25 years.
There is 3 courses that each start with a theory session on Friday night, Saturday at their training facility/track, Sunday (only if they deem the rider safe) a ride to Hidden Valley circuit and lots of laps with many tests incorporated, then a ride thru suburbia in small groups taking it in turns leading and being assessed by a very experienced trainer/rider:
Course 1 for 'L' plates
Course 2 for 'R' licence
Course 3 for Advanced/Open licence
Riding a Kacka Zephyr 750 around a race track that the V8s use was a huge buzz, and in itself worth doing the Advanced course ; but not the same as being on public roads.
I am positive that doing the course has saved me much bitumen sliding and panel beating of car doors.
Even a couple guys who had moved from interstate and ridden bikes for years said they had learnt good stuff from the course.
As for the 250cc issue, it is a joke given the capabilities of some of the modern sports bikes that exceeds many inexperienced riders competence.
If anyone on a 250cc, or in a Holden/Ford v6, wants to blow my Virago 1100cc off at traffic lights they are welcome. I prefer to stay upright and also avoid jaywalkers
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| Your Thoughts on Q ride
Posted: 6/16/2008 4:02:42 AM | Heard some horror stories from Qride and some good reports.
One they told a learner not to put both feet down when reversing their motorbike. He stated that you needed to keep our foot on the brake. What's the little leaver on the right sine of the handle bar for?????
Another apparently had been riding bikes for 3 years and was conducting Qride courses. Struth he could only double pillions for two years and he's teaching people how to ride?
I grew up riding on the farm learning to watch out for cattle turning from the mob, the pitfalls of poly pipe (especially on a frosty morning), cattle grids, dogs, sticks in spokes, snakes, gravel roads, muddy roads......... And we learnt how to fall off which i can say has helped once or twice on the road and a nifty way for catching sheep.
I like to get learners out onto open roads where they can get used to riding the bike. Stopping, starting, lights, traffic, pedestrians all make it a daunting prospect. | |
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| Your Thoughts on Q ride
Posted: 6/16/2008 1:48:28 PM | I remember being taught to put the side stand up then hop on the bike.. Fine if you're on a little 250 and you're tall. I was lucky that my partner at the time disabused me of that notion straight away, before I dropped the bike trying it. I had a mate do Q ride, by the time I caught up with him 4 hours after getting his bike he'd dropped it 3 times trying to do it their way..
Silly, silly thing to teach people. | |
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