Comments on: Motorcycle Training – CBT & Direct Access Training with PRIDE in Taunton http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Bill Bennett http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1183 Bill Bennett Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:59:47 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1183 Thanks for the review, I've just booked my CBT with this company as a result :) Thanks for the review, I’ve just booked my CBT with this company as a result :)

]]> By: David Hurst http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1182 David Hurst Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:26:09 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1182 Simon, Great to hear from you. I blog most events of importance in my life, so I'm afraid you and Gordon have been immortalised on my website. But, from the emails I've had, a few people have been to PRIDE for training as a result of my comments, so that's great. In fact, my friend Mike Southby starts his training with you next week - he actually lives in Swindon. I have been rather remiss in not getting on and doing the advanced training. I do still want to do it, and the year is rapidly running out. Can you send me the info please? I'm almost 8000 miles into my riding career now. The SV is gone. I have a 15 year old GSX1100F and a new FZ6 Fazer to choose between, so I've got a bit of 'cross-bike' experience. The car-park incident has been the only hiccup in that time. I attribute that to the quality of my training. Cheers, David Simon,

Great to hear from you. I blog most events of importance in my life, so I’m afraid you and Gordon have been immortalised on my website. But, from the emails I’ve had, a few people have been to PRIDE for training as a result of my comments, so that’s great. In fact, my friend Mike Southby starts his training with you next week – he actually lives in Swindon.

I have been rather remiss in not getting on and doing the advanced training. I do still want to do it, and the year is rapidly running out. Can you send me the info please?

I’m almost 8000 miles into my riding career now. The SV is gone. I have a 15 year old GSX1100F and a new FZ6 Fazer to choose between, so I’ve got a bit of ‘cross-bike’ experience. The car-park incident has been the only hiccup in that time. I attribute that to the quality of my training.

Cheers,

David

]]> By: Simon http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1181 Simon Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:54:48 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1181 David, I'm glad to hear you're getting on well with being a 'biker' but sorry to hear about the car park incident. I look forward to hearing from you when you're ready for some post-test training. Simon. P.S. I knew nothing of the previous postings until one of my recent pot-test trainees made me aware of this page. David,

I’m glad to hear you’re getting on well with being a ‘biker’ but sorry to hear about the car park incident. I look forward to hearing from you when you’re ready for some post-test training.

Simon.

P.S. I knew nothing of the previous postings until one of my recent pot-test trainees made me aware of this page.

]]> By: David Hurst http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1180 David Hurst Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:36 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1180 Gordon and I have been in touch and there's no hard feelings - just a misunderstanding. This article is about my motorcycle learning experience, which happens to include PRIDE, as that's where I did my training. It was not a review, as such, of PRIDE's training abilities. If it were, I would have been more careful to clarify my comments. Gordon spent much of the CBT shouting at a girl who was struggling with a 125 and slipping the clutch. As we had radios on, we got the full force of it in our ears too! Gordon actually only shouted at me a couple of times and neither time was about my slipping the clutch. It had more to do with missing cones out of the slalom. I felt I didn't need the shouting - I was already angry enough with myself for not doing it right, but you can't expect the trainers to know what you're thinking. Any business owner would be concerned with comments that can be misconstrued, and PRIDE gain the vast majority of their business by word of mouth. As I've said before, I totally recommend them, and clearly the training worked as I sailed through both CBT and test. Gordon and I have been in touch and there’s no hard feelings – just a misunderstanding. This article is about my motorcycle learning experience, which happens to include PRIDE, as that’s where I did my training. It was not a review, as such, of PRIDE’s training abilities. If it were, I would have been more careful to clarify my comments.

Gordon spent much of the CBT shouting at a girl who was struggling with a 125 and slipping the clutch. As we had radios on, we got the full force of it in our ears too! Gordon actually only shouted at me a couple of times and neither time was about my slipping the clutch. It had more to do with missing cones out of the slalom. I felt I didn’t need the shouting – I was already angry enough with myself for not doing it right, but you can’t expect the trainers to know what you’re thinking.

Any business owner would be concerned with comments that can be misconstrued, and PRIDE gain the vast majority of their business by word of mouth. As I’ve said before, I totally recommend them, and clearly the training worked as I sailed through both CBT and test.

]]> By: Mike http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1179 Mike Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:16 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1179 David this account was excellent, you have not said anything negative. Gordan if you read the post again you will see nothign is negative towards you, i feel you should retract your statement, Dave has even said he will be going back to the same place, must be good eh! Maybe you have been watching too much of the dog whisperer! Dave thank you and i will use this when i complete my own test. David this account was excellent, you have not said anything negative. Gordan if you read the post again you will see nothign is negative towards you, i feel you should retract your statement, Dave has even said he will be going back to the same place, must be good eh! Maybe you have been watching too much of the dog whisperer!

Dave thank you and i will use this when i complete my own test.

]]> By: David Hurst http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1178 David Hurst Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:59:07 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1178 Gordon, I'm sorry that you feel my comments were negative - I thought I had given a fair and accurate description of my personal experience. After all this is my personal website, all about me. I thought I gave you guys a glowing reference, and I have no hesitation in recommending you, and indeed I already have recommended you to two people. If you read the last paragraph, you will see that I did recommend you and even gave you a link (which will have benefitted your search engine rankings, given my high page rank). "An ex-police rider called Gordon took myself and one other guy through our CBT. He likes to shout a bit, which I am not so keen on. I was convinced I was messing everything up, but when he handed us over to Simon for our on-road training, he told him that he wouldn’t have any problems with us - we were great. Maybe I needed to be shouted at - in truth, as much as I didn’t like it, it made me drop all ideas I had about my skill level." As you can see, I recognised the need for the shouting and that it had worked. That said, nobody enjoys being shouted at. I just tried to give a fair description of my personal feelings. I think it would also be fair to point out that I didn't see you after the initial morning's training. You weren't there when we got back from the on-road training, and you were in France during my Direct Access, so there wasn't an opportunity to de-brief, but I didn't have a problem with the training and was grateful to be trained to such a high standard to get my first time pass. Regards, David Gordon,

I’m sorry that you feel my comments were negative – I thought I had given a fair and accurate description of my personal experience. After all this is my personal website, all about me. I thought I gave you guys a glowing reference, and I have no hesitation in recommending you, and indeed I already have recommended you to two people. If you read the last paragraph, you will see that I did recommend you and even gave you a link (which will have benefitted your search engine rankings, given my high page rank).

“An ex-police rider called Gordon took myself and one other guy through our CBT. He likes to shout a bit, which I am not so keen on. I was convinced I was messing everything up, but when he handed us over to Simon for our on-road training, he told him that he wouldn’t have any problems with us – we were great. Maybe I needed to be shouted at – in truth, as much as I didn’t like it, it made me drop all ideas I had about my skill level.”

As you can see, I recognised the need for the shouting and that it had worked. That said, nobody enjoys being shouted at. I just tried to give a fair description of my personal feelings.

I think it would also be fair to point out that I didn’t see you after the initial morning’s training. You weren’t there when we got back from the on-road training, and you were in France during my Direct Access, so there wasn’t an opportunity to de-brief, but I didn’t have a problem with the training and was grateful to be trained to such a high standard to get my first time pass.

Regards,

David

]]> By: gordon kemp http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1177 gordon kemp Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:56:42 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1177 A lot of motorcycle skills are psychomotor, meaning it’s in the ‘head’, car drivers in particular have a problem training the use of the clutch and slipping it in particular. In training there is a need to change the metal state of student a frequently this involves breaking their unconscious behaviour if you what Caesar the dog whisperer he hisses and then touches the dog to break a cycle. Its impossible to touch a student in theses circumstances and at time all that can be used is the voice and that means shouting quick and sharp to break that cycle if you remember you where having a particular problem “slipping the clutch” mainly because you had an inner voice from your car driving days telling you not to do it I had to break that cycle and the method I used worked I would have been more grateful if you had discussed this before putting what could be seen as a negative statement on the web, but at least you know now what that method was used. If you didn’t have a problem you would not have been shouted at. Gordon AKA The bike whisperer A lot of motorcycle skills are psychomotor, meaning it’s in the ‘head’, car drivers in particular have a problem training the use of the clutch and slipping it in particular. In training there is a need to change the metal state of student a frequently this involves breaking their unconscious behaviour if you what Caesar the dog whisperer he hisses and then touches the dog to break a cycle. Its impossible to touch a student in theses circumstances and at time all that can be used is the voice and that means shouting quick and sharp to break that cycle if you remember you where having a particular problem “slipping the clutch” mainly because you had an inner voice from your car driving days telling you not to do it I had to break that cycle and the method I used worked I would have been more grateful if you had discussed this before putting what could be seen as a negative statement on the web, but at least you know now what that method was used. If you didn’t have a problem you would not have been shouted at.

Gordon AKA The bike whisperer

]]> By: Rob Swan http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1176 Rob Swan Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:51:19 +0000 http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2008/06/01/motorcycle-training-cbt-direct-access-training-with-pride-in-taunton/#comment-1176 Congratulations Dayv - sorry to hear about the plonker in the carpark though! Glad PRIDE worked out well for you too :) Congratulations Dayv – sorry to hear about the plonker in the carpark though! Glad PRIDE worked out well for you too :)

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