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Information regarding the Advanced Motorcycle Training course offered by 1st Class Rider Training – Cardiff.

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Real Radio Bring a £ to Work Auction

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Charity Auction – Motorcycle Training with 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff.

Real Radio– Wales Based in Cardiff are raising Money to build a playground at the Children’s Hospice, Ty Hafan. Ty Hafan, which is based in Sully, South Wales cares for children with life shortening illnesses, and their families, and gives invaluable support at times of great stress within these families.

As part of this fund raising, the Radio Station is running a Charity Auction.

1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff has donated a Motorcycle Training Day as a prize.  You can bid for either a Full Day Basic Training for a CBT (value £125) or for a Full Day Advanced Training with a Police Class 1 Motorcyclist (Value £180).

For the CBT we provide the use of a Yamaha 125cc bike, all the fuel, insurance, helmet, jacket, gloves and waterproofs whilst you are training. So this is a great way to get started.

For the Advanced Day, it is better for you to use your own bike but we can provide a fuel injected Honda CBF 600cc.

Our training base for the CBT is at the Cardiff County Council Road Safety Centre, Maindy Stadium, Cardiff, and for the Advanced Day, you will find yourself riding the challenging mountain roads of Wales.

So, come on support this worthy cause and place a bid.  Visit the Real Radio Wales website and click on ‘Auction’  for full details.  The auction ends in 5 days.

Thank You.

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Motorcycle Training Cardiff

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The face of Motorcycle Training in Cardiff is about to change.  1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff are pleased to announce our imminent move to our new training site.

Since 1st Class Rider was formed delivering high quality motorcycle training in Cardiff we have enjoyed a very special relationship with Cardiff County Council Road Safety team.  Our existing training site at The Road Safety Centre, Briardene, North Road, Cardiff is soon to move to our new home.

A new purpose built site is now open at the Road Safety Centre, which has relocated to Maindy Stadium.

The training areas, which has been described by the DSA Examining Officer, as a perfect CBT training site, has a dexterity area together with a private road system consisting of bends, junctions, pedestrian crossings and a roundabout.  All with authentic road markings and road signs.

Still enjoying on site toilet facilities and refreshment vending machines.

So you don’t have to train on some featureless industrial estate car park when you can train with the best n this purpose built training site.

The new face of Motorcycle Training in Cardiff is here and waiting for you.

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1st Class Rider Tours

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1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff are pleased to announce the launch of their new web site.  www.1stclassridertours.co.uk

The launch recognises the success of our European and War Graves Tours so far this year.  The new web page is being constructed but will hold a full calendar of trips for 2010.  The Somme, Normandy, Battle of The Bulge, Bruges and Ypres to name but a few.

These are biking trips professionally lead by Police Class 1 Riders to points of interest along some of the best biking roads on offer in Northern Europe. Conveniently packaged into just a long weekend.

The web site will also hold links to our main training page and our popular Newsletter Blog where you can sign up for automatic updates on Advanced Training, Special Events and Monthly Social Ride Outs.

These are exciting times for us here at 1st Class Rider Training as we expand our successful training company.  We will still be offering ‘Learner’ & Advanced Training and we will still be available for the many corporate classroom training sessions that we currently present, but these tours are a natural progression as we look forward to changes in the biking industry in the UK.

Come and join us.  Watch out for news on the completion of www.1stclassridertours.co.uk

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Advanced Motorcycle Course & RoSPA Test

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1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff Four Day Advanced Motorcycle Course.  Leading to the RoSPA Advanced Test.

This is it.  The long awaited (by some) 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff, Four Day Advanced Motorcycle Course.  This is a four day course spread over a number of weeks.  It contains a classroom based, theory element, followed by periods of self practice before on road instruction, with an option to undergo the RoSPA test at the end of the course.  All the training is based on the Police System of Motorcycle Control and is run by RoSPA Examiners & Diploma Holders.

The venue for the theory sessions, we hope, will be our new ‘home’ at Cardiff County Councils’ New Road Safety Centre at Maindy Stadium, Cardiff. (This will be confirmed)

I don’t run many of these through the year so don’t miss your chance for this one.  The cost of the four day course is only £500.  That is only £125 per day.  What?  We charge £125 for a CBT!!

You’d better book your place before I realise my mistake and charge the proper price for this.

The course start date has been set as Saturday the 15th of August, with day 2 the following Saturday the 22nd of August.  Later course dates will be arranged to suit the course participants and will be mutually agreed for the practical road riding sessions.

Visit our newsletter blog to sign up for free up dates on Advanced Training, Social Events and Rideouts.

Just click the link on the left.

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Slow Maneuvering & Emergency Braking Course

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Slow Maneuvering & Emergency Braking Day.

I am running another one of these popular courses. For just £60 you can learn to….well um…Ride Slow and Brake Fast!  The date of this is Sunday the 12th of July.  So, if you want to gain an insight into the sort of training that I had to undergo before being let loose on a patrol bike book yourself a place.

I don’t run many of these through the year but those who have been before said they were of great value…and What?? I’m only charging 60 quid.  Now that is great value. Come and have a go at some of the manoeuvres included in the new motorcycle test.  Would you pass???

I will be limiting this to 10 riders so be quick!  Let me know if you want a place.

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Slow Maneuvering & Emergency Braking Day

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1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff are holding another Slow Maneuvering & Emergency Braking Day.

Sunday the 12th of July to be held at Cardiff County Council Road Safety Centre, Briardene, North Road Cardiff.

Come and learn the skills that Police riders have to master before being let out on the road.

Under close supervision you will be guided through the skills needed to maintain balance and clutch control to aid slow speed riding. Filtering through traffic, tight left and right turns etc.

Also you will get the chance to practice emergency braking, again under controlled conditions.  We believe that emergency stops are rarely practiced by riders after passing their test.  But we believe that this skill, above many others may save your life one day.  If it is something that you last tried on your test, then now may be the time for you to refresh your memory…before it’s too late.

Give us a call on 0845 467 0165 for details and to reserve a place, or visit my newsletter blog to sign up for future up dates on courses and events.

www.1stclassriderblog.co.uk

It’ll be the best thing you ever spent your money on!

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World of BMW Motorcycle Training

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The next series of Blog News pages gives a summary of how 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff came to be formed.

As a result of my close association with Peter Cramp, the Sales Manager at Rydale BMW Motorcycle Dealership, Cardiff I was able to become involved in the World of BMW Motorcycle Training School, based at Ystradgynlais.

Run by Kevin and Julia Saunders I was invited to join them and train BMW clients at all levels from CBT right through to their Advanced and Refresher Courses at the Swansea Valley site.

I am still licensed to train for them but concentrate my time now on 1st Class Rider Training in Cardiff.

As with the other organisations mentioned here and below, I am grateful for the opportunity to work with them, sharing ideas and helping them grow.

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Harley Davidson Rider’s Edge

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Just another chapter, in the 1st class Rider Training-Cardiff formation history.

When Harley Davidson was looking to set up a Europe branch of their Rider’s Edge Motorcycle Training scheme, I wasn’t far away.

The Director’s of the training school based in Builth Wells, Mid Wales needed Direct Access qualified Instructors and in the early stages of the development of Rider’s Edge I was able to assist in setting up an Advanced Motorcycle Training and Testing scheme. (Based on the RoSPA Gold Silver and Bronze grading system), and carrying out training at all levels from CBT right up to the Rider’s Edge Gold standard.

Working closely with Pat, the Motorcycling Director at the time I gained much useful experience and this was another stepping stone towards the formation of 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff.

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United Motorcycle Training

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This, together with the Blog page below, is part of the 1st Class Rider Training-Cardiff, story.

I was asked by Peter Cramp, the Sales Manager of Rydale BMW Cardiff, at the time, if I knew a training school that wasn’t tied to a dealership to pass on any refferals for CBT or Direct Access Training that came into the BMW salesroom.

I approached United Motorcycle Training and it was agreed that I would be issued with an Instructor’s Certificate with them.

Any enquiries that I recieved through the BMW dealership I passed to United, but later found that I wasn’t always given the work that arose ftrom those enquiries.

After a short time, it was decided, in conjunction with Peter Cramp that I would form my own training school, and so 1st Class Rider Training was born.

So, as with Cardiff Motorcycle School, my time with United Motorcycle Training forms a stepping stone in the development of 1st Class Rider Training.

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Cardiff Motorcycle School

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What am I doing advertising Cardiff Motorcycle School, on the web site of 1st Class Rider Training.

Well I am often asked how I got started in Motorcycle Training and it was Stef & Simon at Cardiff Motorcycle School who got me into it.

I was still a serving traffic cop at the time and in the process of introducing Bikesfafe to South Wales. It was through this connection that Stef & Simon suggested I take up CBT training as well. They trained me and sent me to the DSA assessment centre at Cardington and the rest as they say………..

We still have a good working relationship, (and long may it continue) even though strictly speaking we are in direct competition. Any clients that I can’t accommodate (on 50cc ‘twist n go’ scoots for example) I recommend to stef and his team.

He in turn sends any inquiries for Advanced Motorcycle Training to us.

So I must say a big thank you to Stef, Simon and the team at Cardiff Motorcycle School for getting me started and helping me along the way.