Have a bitch Cornering

[DanBow]

IAM have come a long way in the past few years as their qualification at the top end have had a major overhaul and is now a match for the RoSPA (and in fact may even surpass RoSPA) grades.

I did my time as an IAM examiner and stopped because the standard was so poor with no retest requirement and it simply being a pass or fail. This is all very different now and in my 40 years as an advanced examiner there have been a lot of improvements to the testing of civilian riders at advanced level.

That's good to hear. I passed my test in 2007 and observed from 2008 to about 2013. Nice to see that none are stuck in their ways.

 

[slim63]

A few years ago I was considering training to become a driving instructor.
An ex instructor put me off in the end. He'd jacked it in because he was fed up of teenage learners arguing about everything he was trying to teach them.

I jacked it because of the young uns, half the time I would say something from many years of experience & training & would get "well it said on Facebook" which would start an argument with whatever other little twats were around, in the end i fecked off home one day & never went back !

 

[Malone]

I passed my IAM test on the Busa but learned on the Bird. Whilst I was being taught I refused to take a left hander out to the centre line as I always felt it was unsafe at this particular bend. My tutor used the wide line and scraped his pegs along an incoming car that had cut the corner. I’m all in favour of using the width of the road to ‘open up’ the line - but not at the expense of safety.

 

[DanBow]

I’m all in favour of using the width of the road to ‘open up’ the line - but not at the expense of safety.

As T.C Said earlier, you should never sacrifice safety for position.