Riding Instructor/schools in Sydney?

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:35 pm

Hey all,

the first 3 months of my L's is up and I'm feeling confident on a bike again. I've been riding to work and back 5 days a week for almost the 3 months. So, the time has come to pull my finger out and book a P's test...

This means I need to find some poor sod to show me what I have to do to pass it... Anyone got a suggestion on who to go to for that? I've had no luck googling or looking the buggers up in the yellowpages. Any suggestions would be muchly appreciated!

I live and work in Inner West Sydney, so something on this side of Sydney would be tops

Cheers,

Rob

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:34 am

G'day mate

What sort of thing you looking at. I instructed for a while a few years back and it aint that hard. Make sure you've practised everything they taught you in your L's course. Pay particular attention to slow riding, braking and your basic control skills ie turning, head position etc. So long as you've ridden regularly and practised you'll be OK. The P's day consists of the course in the morning, when they'll show you everything you'll need for the test and get to practise it, the test and a road ride.
Make sure your bike is spot on when you turn up also ie tyres, lights, exhaust etc

PM me with your email address and I'll send you a PDF of the P's test course. It's a bit different now but only because they've made the U Turn area bigger and the cone weave is spaced out more, so if you can get by the one I send you you'll be fine.

I don't know if anyone offers a course to get you ready for your P's. Rightstart used to but they folded a few years back unfortunately.

Make sure you book with plenty of time befiore your L's expire. If you have a stuff up in the test you just have to do a retest not the whole day but you have to wait a week before you can do it. If your L's expire you're screwed and have to do the L's course again and then another P's course.

Good Luck

Colette · Post by **Colette** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:01 am

Rob, try not to worry too much; the day is spent practising everything you will be doing in the test at the very end, so you should be more than ready when the time comes.

Good luck with it all

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:03 am

A friend of mine did a training day, I think is was a pre P's test practice day with Stay Upright, they only do this at the Auburn centre (ie under the M4 near Parramatta Speedway). So maybe give Stay Upright a call I dont know what they charged him though.

Cheers

jewjew · Post by **jewjew** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:47 am

HART also used to hold a pre-p course. Just get the info off the web site, buy some witch's hats (soccer packs, about 20) and get a couple of mates to go to homebush bay one night. We asked for permission from security and they were alright with it, we just went out to the large car park out the back

shadowzx9 · Post by **shadowzx9** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:17 pm

WTF!

Theyve made the uturn bigger?

WHY?!
It was soooo much fun watching the nancy boys on their babyblades try and get thru it

We used to do it on our ZX9's in front of em when they were squealing that it couldnt be done

I miss those days
Still got my Destructors License too...

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:59 pm

shadowzx9 wrote:WTF!

Theyve made the uturn bigger?

WHY?!
It was soooo much fun watching the nancy boys on their babyblades try and get thru it

We used to do it on our ZX9's in front of em when they were squealing that it couldnt be done

I miss those days
Still got my Destructors License too...

Yeah the Uturn's now 6m ie the old dotted line and the cone's are spaced out more.

I miss going through the time beams on the nine at 100km/h and stopping before hitting the grass at Quakers hill

I've still got the license but I haven't taught for three years or more so my accreditation's out of date. It's better having my weekends back though and I wouldn't work for Stuck Uptight.

shadowzx9 · Post by **shadowzx9** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:56 pm

hehe, id rather masturbate with a cheese grater than work for uptight, and its been what...5 years......6 for me.........im so far out of date i could barely get thru morning induction

and we never hit the grass....

remember that pinhead who saw the 3 of us pulling stoppies thru the speed gate who endoed his ZX2....

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:35 pm

oh god i can only imagine.

Woody69 · Post by **Woody69** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:52 pm

things sure have changed, when i got my licence, i just had to ride around the block, and the dude said, yeah you passed ! that was it !

Woody

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:12 pm

Thanks for that guys, it sounds like it may be a whole lot less painful that I was expecting! The witches hat idea sounds like a good plan thanks jewjew. And I'm flicking you a PM now Glen, cheers for that!

While I'm at it, I've heard two schools of thought on the test; some ppl reckon you should hire the beaten up 250s at the center and do the test on them, others say use your own bike... I've got an ER-5 so it's not exactly a handful

Any suggestions?

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the advice!

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:26 am

Gonzo wrote:Thanks for that guys, it sounds like it may be a whole lot less painful that I was expecting! The witches hat idea sounds like a good plan thanks jewjew. And I'm flicking you a PM now Glen, cheers for that!

While I'm at it, I've heard two schools of thought on the test; some ppl reckon you should hire the beaten up 250s at the center and do the test on them, others say use your own bike... I've got an ER-5 so it's not exactly a handful Any suggestions?

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the advice!

Use your own bike I always reckon. The ER 5 will be a gem and you'll feel better on something your comfortable on.

If you don't have witches hats another idea is tennis balls cut in half.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:28 am

mike-s wrote:oh god i can only imagine.

Instructor shenannigans Mike. It's along day and you get to deal with some really stress inducing people so you gotta have fun in the lunchbreak.

All in the name of improving your skills of course.

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:08 am

ah huh, of course glen, of course.

The scary thing isi can imagine the smirk on your face as you did a stoppie there too.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:21 am

mike-s wrote:ah huh, of course glen, of course.

The scary thing isi can imagine the smirk on your face as you did a stoppie there too.

In one unfortunate incident that I'm not particularly proud of we were mucking around doing the 100k's through the time beam and then pulling up really hard at lunchtime.

There were a group of P's course students watching us and we told them that was the stop they had to do in their test. One poor bloke went to get lunch and never came back.