I'd like to echo JP's sentiments loner   An extremely selfless gesture you are making there mate   It's a brilliant example of how BMers like to help each other   Come on folks this venture just gets better and better   With an offer like the one above   Someone must be tempted surely                                                                                                                                                                              

hi  loner   . again id like to  thank  you  for  your  offer, its very sporting of you . my  idea was to wrap  up  the  lesson around  4pm on the  sunday (depending on tiredness of students) .. but  everything  is  flexibled .. reguarding the  hazzard perseption test i  kept  failing it  the  first  few  times  for the  exact same reason .  you  need to  wait  till  the  hazzard   actually  develops into  causing you  to  change your  speed or  direction . you  have to  put your  mind  into  the  head  of  a  learner  and  not  an  advanced  rider/driver.

Ta lads,just wanna see more bikes on the road(despite the government).One final thing about people going just so there's no cries of favouritism can anyone who wants to go please put their name on forum FIRST and then pm me regarding pick up time and place and remember date is to suit majority,Cutty Sark has been there 50 years,they just spent millions on her,she ain't going nowhere in  next few months.                                                                                                                                                                             

i  think  the  only  thing  missing  now  is  a  definate  date .  so  im going  to  suggest . the  1st  week in september .. arrive  friday  31st   aug  evening.  train  on sat  and  sunday  , go  home  monday  3rd   sept  .. ??

OOPs sorry forgot KISS is that weekend and I'm going to that one too! My fault! ANY other is fine,KISS & Friskney I,m busy                                                                                                                                                                             

yep  i  picked  up  on that  in the  main chat  room tonight .  so  once  again  im asking  you  gals  to  get  your  heads  together  and  come  up  with  a  mutual   date  suitable  to  most  ??                                                                                                                                                                              

met  my  first  BMer today .  made  steady  progress through  the  cbt  syllabus . well  untill  the  heavens  opened   lol ..  ive never seen such a  small  girl   throw  a  cb 600f  onto  its  center stand ..  after a bit  of  coaching  offcourse ..

just goes to show Buzz that with the right coaching, little girls are capable of big thinigs!!                                                                                                                                                                              

I have the last week in september off, if thats any help  I can also take people in the car if anyone would like a lift!!!

I'm still up for this, hope others are                                                                                                                                                                              

Come on folks grab a bargain on training next year it get all that much harder and more expensive. I recon you will save enough for a good deposit on a bike at this price                                                                                                                                                                               

Annette Cookson Thank you sooooo much for all your patience and encouragement, and the extra hours you had to put in to get me ready for today. Massive thank you to Emma too for constantly putting me at ease with my riding and being there with me today, I ... had the best training team I could have asked for. Will now be telling EVERYONE about how great Rochford motorcycle training scheme...eme is!!! You guys just need to set up a a school up north now ;)     thanks  annie      .  hope  you  dont  mind  me   copying   and  pasting  from  our  fb  page                                                                                                                                                                               

Don't mind at all Buzz!!

couldn't have done my CBT today without you guys

For those of you BM'ers still thinking whether the afforadable training week-end with these guys is worth it, the answar is YES, YES, YES!!!!!! Today was my first day EVER on the road and thanks to these guys I got up to fourth gear and 40mph at one point. Don't seem like much, but it's only because of the confidence my team instilled that I felt confident enough to do this. I even carried on riding in a rather horrific downpour of rain!!!

I just wish now I'd have done my cbt sooner, so that I too could take my test with Buzz and the team this year

If I have enough road experience between now and next year I will deffo extend my visit down south and attempt my mod 1 with The Rochford Motorcycle training scheme

Thanks again Buzz,

Annie

                                                                                                                                                                             

your  welcome    and  thankyou                                                                                                                                                                               

i  think   this  is  what  annie   was talking  about  http://youtu.be/7dUYgXH3SXo                                                                                                                                                                             

I'd love to join in, but can't make September, so maybe another time in the future.

Got my CBT on 26 August, which is fine, done it before (twice, well 2 and half if you count the time I was trying on a 125 and ended up in the big metal fence around the schoolyard!).  The last CBT I tried again on a 125 but struggled so finished on a scooter. 

My husband bought me a 125 but I still couldn't manage (it was a marauder so it seemed to be very long, a bit like a baby Harley!), so he sold that and got me a 125 automatic scooter.  I tried but I was frightened to just go around the block on my own.  Bless him he never complained or moaned, just said it was one of those things, yes he would have loved me to get through my bike test but if I didn't feel confident, that was fine as I could still ride pillion.

Now I am widowed so if I want to be on 2 wheels I have to do it myself.

My son, has some holidays due and he is taking his CBT on 26 August as well so he could well be interested. 

When you have some firm dates, let us know and all being well one or both of us could come down.  My son and I both drive (and both have cars)  so we would be happy to do a car share. We are in South Yorkshire.

You know what? I'm stupid, we are talking about ladies only training and I say my son would be interested! I'm not even going to claim a senior moment, it was 100% Barbara moment lol.

I suppose I could always put him in a dress!
                                                                                                                                                                             

  LOL Barbara, you fit in so well, and so quickly, I haven't had to knit a virtual 'blonde' wig  for a while.   A Barnsley lad wearing a dress? Mm rarer than hens teeth I'd say.                                                                                                                                                                             

hello  barbara thanks for  your  post  . Are you doing  cbt  on a geared  bike  this  time  ? have you  got  anyone  to  spend  a bit  of  time with  you  before  cbt  to  gain the  confidence  with  clutch/gears ..   i  dont  have a problem with  your  son  being  involved  , this  weekend  initially was suggested  as   "females  only"   but  i  dont  think  that  really  applies  now .   You  both  will  be looking  for  mod 1  training  for  this  weekend  if  we can  get  it  arranged .  with  a  bit  of  mod 2  thrown in for  good  measure  . have  you  started looking at  the  theory /hazzard perception test  yet  ?  its  something   that  you  need  to  do  either  b4  cbt  or  very soon after  .   buzz                                                                                                                                                                                  

Hi Sandi, thanks for the offer of a virtual blonde wig, starting to think I may need one.  Guess its my age, well that's the doctor would say anyway.

We aren't natives of Barnsley, which is becoming cosmopolitan - even has a Costa now - we are originally from Leeds. Must admit, yet to see a Barnsley lad in a dress, tends to be shorts in all weathers, not a pretty sight,

Buzz, hi.  Will be doing my CBT on a scooter again, need to build up my confidence again, and thinking about gears as well could be a step too far at the moment. This will be the first time I have been on 2 wheels since May last year. 

Thanks for saying Gary would be welcome, he's only just 20 so will be keen.

Will be looking at doing Theory test shortly, I did it before in 2009, so have a good idea what to expect.