Originally Posted by StreetT675
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I am also doing a Race School day at Donnington Park at the Ron Haslam School of Racing.
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Rocket Ron, one of my favourites. If memory serves correct he fell off about 33 times during the 1975 season
, the year he made his big breakthrough in to international racing. He rode & fell off Mal Carter's Pharaoh Yamahas. It's OK though because he steadied down a lot after that!
Back in 1972 there was no training. You stuck L plates on & went riding off down the road. I read all the riding skill articles in the m/c mags. Then we rode together, we discussed it a lot and we critiqued our own & each others' riding. You've got to be good mates to survive a bashing like that
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I have a mate here who's been attending a refresher course for born again bikers. Some of the things he's described to me that they have said as part of the instruction make my blood boil- I've never heard such rubbish. Meanwhile they haven't bothered to teach him how to brake & change down correctly
. It's put me right off, rightly or wrongly, doing any kind of riding course.
I've never had any road riding instruction.
DaveB.
