we had a small class today, only 7 trainees, and 5 police coach, a lot of one-to-one rides. Experienced some city riding,filtering in orpington area first, then lunch at a road side cafe on A21. In the afternoon we rode on some country lanes near Westerham and Four Elms. it rained and hailed at some point.
I found riding downhill on a left bend particularly scary. Probably I did not ride as well as i normally do, when watched closely by a police officer behind. I think I’ve learnt something, e.g. head up, looking far ahead to plan better; using lower gear high rev to tackle bends instead of higher gear coasting.
Ian, the police officer told me, my bike is capable of doing tighter bends with faster speed than my ability, something like that 
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Looks like you had fun fella. 
So are all of the Bikesafe days which are run in and around London conducted by coppers on their company bikes in full work kit?
When I did mine a couple of years back with Hampshire Police it was a 2 rider 1 instructor session. The instructor did the ride on his own bike wearing his own kit. The reason given was that people don’t tend to ride the way they normally do when being followed by a Police bike, it’s a psychological factor. The instructors can give a better assessment of those on the course when they are ‘undercover’ as it were, as people relax more and ride normally, rather than unintentionally being over cautious because every time they check their mirror there’s a Police bike right behind them.
It’s a great day out though and thoroughly recommended.
At both the Ace and the Warren (the 2 London venues for bikesafe) you get police m/c riders on police bikes wearing police uniform. They clear the road a treat…I’ve never had people moving over for me on the A40 like they did on Bikesafe, before or since
Ahh I see, that’s an unexpected bonus!
London BikeSafe is the same guys that policed the KillSpills rallies. Top bunch of blokes, they are.
Could someone please pm the bike safe details as we are trying to set it up at work, thanks
Jimi
Thats what I liked too - When our group suitably followed some of the car driver took a double take!!. The police officer (Dave) said I was brave being on a CBR125 on the A40, he’d forgotten what it looked like from behind, so skinny.
Should really do another one now that I have and SV!
i done it last year on my daytona 650, id like to give it another go now i got a speed triple, is a top day apart from the class room bit
I did mine at the warren last year with a mate, we both had one to one for the full day :D.
Picked up some great tips from the day which I still use. I was holding back a bit to begin with until the officer said ride as you normally do, so I can gauge you and offer you some hints and tips :).
I even took one of my brothers around the route we used giving him the hint and tips I was shown.
