bottle or what

[gypsy]

is it just me or am i a wimp?
a friend of mine has a bike training school and is training me up to become a DAS instuctor and on one of our training sessions with two pupils ,both females i am pleased to say, Kelly who is a slightly built lady froze on a gentle corner and continued straight on instead of leaning into the bend .Fortunately she used her brakes and the oncoming estate car had seen her and did the same ,the outcome of this accident was one bent bike and one lady biker on the floor LAUGHING !!
when asked if she was alright she replied that she was just singing IM JUST A TEENAGE DIRTBAG BABY when she saw the bend.She assured us she was fine and had just had a sore wrist and seemed more concerned that we wouldnt let her get on the bike again to continue her training.The next day Kelly came into the bike school with a arm broken in two places and plastered up and asking if she could continue her training in three weeks when the plaster came off or was she BARRED FROM THE SCHOOL.
The outcome is that Kelly passed her test yesterday with no faults at all :beer:
So back to the opening question
if that had been me with a broken arm i would have been in bits:cry:
what about you lot?? :dunno:

 

[Bob Pinder]

If that had been me...................

I'd still be crying now
:B :B :B

 

[Wolfie]

:bow: :bow: she def. has the biker spirit

 

[gypsy]

Kellys mum has just been on the phone to tell us shes well made up at passing and is dragging her and pops out to look at bikes today ,and it turns out ( kelly didnt tell us!) that she insisted on going to do her theory test before she would go to hospital to get plastered in case she couldnt get another booking which would delay her practical test. Some girl eh!!

 

[Amsterdam]

Like a lot of young......

Girl's today.....

She's got ball's

Amsters

 

[Wolfie]

i am not going to cardiff then

 

[Jaws]

 

[ianrobbo1]

this

sort of story makes it all worthwile,:bow:
good luck to her,:bow:

 

[Pugwash]

When I did my training about 7 years ago, the other lad braked hard on a wet bend and put his bike in a ditch. He claimed the instructor hadn't told him about front braking on corners. :violin:
He didn't turn up the next day. Some people just don't have what it takes. (and he was mistaken)

 

[gypsy]

bottle

on another occasion in march last year another young lady wanted to take a 125cc test but being a natural was persuaded to go for a full test ,as a result she passed ,bought a 600 hornet ,and then joined us on a trip to Scotland ! ok but this was just one week after buying the bike and entailed her travelling from London where she works at 11.00 pm to Derby,
Setting off from DERBY to STIRLING at 8.00am
then up to AVIEMORE to join us SOLO
and covering a further 1500 miles during the week then travelling back to London early SOLO AGAIN to get the bike back for its first service. God knows what the Dobles the bike dealers thought when she turned up with 3k on the clock.
How many lads would be up for that?

 

[1200Pete]

Originally posted by gypsy
So back to the opening question
if that had been me with a broken arm i would have been in bits:cry:
what about you lot??

The girl is a Biking legend :bow:

Love stories like that.

I too was an instructor once , yes it's true :m

I once had a pupil who after being told to find a clear bit of road to 'U' turn his bike in, immediately tried to turn where a car was parked on the opposite side of the road. Well half way round panic set in, he dumped the clutch and wheeled a CG125 straight into the side of a brand new Ford Fiesta (yes students could wheelie the CG, I never could:dunno: ) He bounced off, managed to keep the bike upright! and running!!! and fook me he did it again!!!!!!!.

Well the best bit was when I knocked on the door of the house and the biggest bloke you ever did see opened it, he was absolutely enormous and very pissed off :rant: :h .
We never went back to that road.

 

[gypsy]

another tale

training sure has its moments Pete
a student of ours panicked when executing a right turn on a trading estate, now this estate was used a lot by hgv's so the roads and junctions were w-i-d-e, but this girl panicked because she thought a car was coming straight for her so she dropped the clutch off she went - and yes she could wheelie a cg 125 as well, i cant- straight into the kerb-hedge-fence .she got up, picked the bike up ,lit a fag, smiled and said ' MY GOD THAT WAS AMAZING - I THOUGHT WHEN YOU FELL OF A MOTORBIKE YOU DIED !! WHAT A BUZZ !!
now this story has a moral of a sorts
dont laugh at your pupil when they pull stunts especially when you fall off the kerb and knock your bike over and do more damage to yours than they did to the training bike :blush:

 

[Rolfy Dave]

Girl's today.....she's got balls !!!

Originally posted by Wolfie
i am not going to cardiff then

I have got to go past Cardiff today.... Is there a ring road that I can use to by-pass it ?????

OOooooh mummy, I feel uke:

Rolfy

ps...Might take the car as Jan doesnt want to hold 30Kgs of Marine live rock in each hand...... Wimp eh ??

 

[Jaws]

Just love reading all the real life stuff.. Got any more you guys ?

And Dave, gather you are still going large with the marine tank ? Hows it coming and any chance of a pic of two ?

 

[1200Pete]

Was training a group in the car park one day and one of the students was a big coloured chap, and I do mean big!! He made an MTX125 look like a child's toy and he had a real mean looking face.

Well the first thing this guy did, after wobbling around the car park for a few minutes, was turn right and pull the front brake on to change gear . That was it, two miles an hour, he fell over. The footpeg however broke his toe and there was this man mountain, sitting in the middle of the car park bawling his eye's out:B and he continued to sob until the Ambulance came and took him away

So it does seem true that the bigger they are, the softer they get :}

 

[Cruser]

Ooh, ooh,

Tell the one about how you were showing your students how to take a roundabout without having to stop - go on Pete - tell, tell...

 

[1200Pete]

Oh ok then

Once upon a time:

I had a young male student that had a problem with roundabouts, no matter how hard I tried I could not get him to asses the traffic on approach and be progressive.
Every single roundabout without fail he would ride up to it, stop, then look and see if anything was coming.

Well this went on all day and the next day, by day three I was getting a bit upset with this guy, I would say over the radio, "the roundabout is clear, no need to stop, keep going", and fook me he would still stop.

On the afternoon on the last day, I decided to show him how it was done :bow: We were travelling down a particular duel carriageway that I used every day on the way to work. I knew that the roundabout ahead could be taken at 70mph.

So as the same chap started to slow up again for the roundabout I shot past him at 70mph and shouted over the radio "This is how you take a fookin roundabout".

Well I had over looked one small point, when I was on the way to work in the morning with no student's about, I would just straight line the roundabout, using all the road.

Suddenly I am on the wrong side of the road trying to put my fecking lifesaver in and do it all properly whilst hurtling towards the edge of the roundabout at 70.

What bike was I on? A Kawasaki sorry a shagged Kawasaki GT550, with the cheapest hardest compound tyres you have ever seen.

So it was shit or bust time:loo: , I jammed on every thing the bike had to offer, laying it hard over at the same time, with a shower of sparks and my foot crushed between the foot peg and the engine casing, we drifted from one side of the roundabout to the other, just and just clipping the curb as I brought the bike upright and back down on it's left hand side just in time to run wide on the exit and clip the white line on the other side of the duel carriageway uke: .

How I ever got away with that to this day I don't know. As for the students, we stopped 1/2 mile up the road for a much needed fag brake and they thought I was a riding god :bow: of course I didn't tell them where the funny smell was coming from.

Looking around the bike, the tyres where completely off the edges and even the brake pedal had been on the road

It taught me one very good lesson. Even if it looks impossible try, you have nothing to loose.
Plus don't be a twat infront of students :yo:

 

[Rolfy Dave]

Been to wales today......

Originally posted by Jaws
And Dave, gather you are still going large with the marine tank ? Hows it coming and any chance of a pic of two ?

Just got my Live rock & live sand to go in the tank.... Nearly ready to put it all together (water etc...LOL) tank all done & ready to accept the brine & live sand/rock. Had a good deal on the rock (?6 a kilo for prime fiji with loads of corraline algie)

Went for a walk down Porthcawl seafront... 3 birds there...(1 red, 1 black 1 blue) Didnt know any of them... Pushed the club info to them. Must have thought I was barmy... Walking down the seafron in Tee shirt, Jeans, and trainers. Eating a double scoop ice cream in mid January...ROFL... should have seen all the other wimps in coats/hats/scarfs (and that was just the bikers...LOL.

Best wishes,

Rolfy

ps... maed it out of Wales in one peice as well... Home safe n sound...:beer:

 

[Supabird1100]

Real Life Stuff, John ???............

Here ya go...........When Trace decided to learn to ride she booked her training and CBT at a local school and set off to become a motorcyclist !!! At the end of the second day the knob-head instructor told her, and I quote "Sorry Girl....you just ain't got what it takes....you'll never ride a bike as long as you've got a hole in your a**e" !!!!

Floods of tears that night....so I rang a mate of mine who does a bit of instructing and asked to borrow one of his bikes and to get the use of the 'off street' training facility that he teaches at. Now this place is a couple of miles of roadways that are set out just like a town......zebra crossings, traffic lights, junctions, road signs, the whole works...and is used by various training and driving schools but at ?10 a session, don't get too busy !!!!

Turn up there and get the loan of a ratty SR125 Yammie.....I ride it over to a quiet bit of the centre and tell Trace to get on. She's well nervous but after running through the controls she starts it up.....clutch in....selects first.....and starts to pull away.

I'm walking along at the side of her....."OK Love, pull in the clutch, up into second"......now I'm breaking into a brisk trot....."OK, up into third"......now I'm running at a fair rate and she's pulling away from me !!!!! I'm screaming at her "Fourth, fourth" !!!, puffing and panting like a steam train, but she's away, laughing like a lunatic and I end up collapsing in a heap on the grass verge !!!! She does a circuit of the training centre....pulls up next to me prone body ......and says "How am I doing" ????? After a day over there she's riding in and out of cones, feet up 'U' turns, emergency stops...the whole nine yards !!!!!

She booked her CBT for the next weekend.....and passed with no further instruction !!!!! Took her full bike test some months later and flew through that as well......so I suppose my physical exertions were rewarded !!!!!!:} :}

 

[Dave Baglee]

Roundabouts again!

I am also an Instructor with my own Training School here in Sunny Gosport, and had a 40 year Old Guy leaving the Navy, doing a 5 Day Direct Access course, he was a non Car Driver and had never ridden a Bike before, it took me 4 days to complete his CBT!, He was a night mare, but give him his due he did persevere!

His biggest problem was roundabouts where he had the opposite problem to 1200 Pete, this Guy would not stop at roundabouts, he would slow right down, but would not change down gears so ended up going out onto some major roundabouts in a high gear with no speed or pull, the one incident I remember was when he did this, but noticed that a Car followed by a Transit Van was bearing down upon him, he decided if he didnt look at them they would disappear, Ostrich / head in the sand comes to mind, I was burbling over the Radio, and sh*t myself when the Car passed one side of him and the Transit the other, drivers with the old wide eyed look!, after pulling him over to one side and discussing the situation, he found it very hard to understand his mistake!

He did actually pass a restricted licence about a month later, and then took an accelerated Access course about a Year Later!, the same Guy rode a GZ 125 from Pompey to Newcastle, taking 10 and a half hours!, and is now a leading light in the New Forrest Harley Owners Group!, so keep an eye out Pete!


Safe Riding for 2004

Dave Baglee

Paragon Rider Training
www.orangebikerz.com:beer: