WHAT’S ON IN THE SURVIVAL SKILLS UNIVERSE
ONLINE TALK EVENTS - it’s your LAST CHANCE to book up for July’s ONLINE TALK SERIES event - it’s on cornering, but it’s not your usual ‘better skills’ approach to cornering. A significant number of crashes and riding fatalities happen when riding corners and most riders underestimate the risks. I’ll look at the causes of cornering incidents - where things go wrong, how they go wrong and why they go wrong. I’ll explain the clues that can warn us we’re about to make a mistake, and then what we can do to stay out of trouble if we possibly can. Finally, I’ll talk about how we can get out of trouble when we find ourselves in it. The previous event (overtaking) got excellent feedback and one viewer described it as a ‘masterclass’.
Tickets to all these events cost £5 and you can book up here:
BOOK AT: https://survivalskills.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events
MINI RIDE-OUTS - I’ve added an EVENING MINI RIDE-OUT on Weds 13 July to the event on Sat 23 July. Don’t forget, these gentle rides, limited to just FIVE riders. Hope to see you on one of them. A couple of other points -
rides will be WEATHER DEPENDENT and if it looks like a wet day, I'll postpone. They're meant to be fun rides.
rides are PRE-BOOK ONLY - no turning up with a bunch of mates on the day. If you want me to put a ride together for you and a few friends, let me know
if a ride is fully booked, drop me a line and I'll put you on the reserve list and offer you a place on a repeat ride from the same location. But if you realise you can't make it, let me know so I can offer your place to someone else.
You'll be riding with an experienced trainer too and whilst it’s not a training ride, I'll be happy to discuss riding. And I may just have a few copies of my books with me!
Daring-do not needed, just come along for a nice pleasant ride!
GROUP TALKS - I’ve just got an invite to head back to Devon for a talk next year after a very successful presentation to the local IAM group last month, but I’m also looking to book GROUP PRESENTATIONS either live or online for the rest of this year too. So if you are a member of a motorcycle group, why not mention Survival Skills and my talks to your events team?
COURSES NOW BOOKING - The days have stretched right out and we’ve now had some lovely warm and sunny days. And that means it’s time for EVENING TRAINING too - I simply split a day’s training over TWO evenings. Drop me a line and see if I can fit you in with a course from my start points around the M25, within convenient distances of much of SE England. Courses for all riders from newly qualified to advanced. Whatever you ride, however you ride, just bring along some enthusiasm! Choose between various topics and different length courses:
BRONZE one-day: £269
SILVER two-day: £499
GOLD three-day: £719
PLATINUM four-day: £929
LAST MINUTE AVAILABILITY - Save some cash with a last minute booking. Check your diary, drop me a line and find out how much you can save!
ONLINE COACHING
And if that doesn’t work for you, because of cost or distance, why not think about an inexpensive forty minute online coaching session? As Martin Hide explains:
"The online session worked really well, we were able to cover a lot of ground and it increased my understanding of several key areas of Kevin’s approach to safer riding. I would recommend anyone to give an online session a try, I think you’ll be surprised at just how much you’ll get out of it."
I have a range of pre-prepared topics. Alternatively present me with a question or problem, and we’ll take it from there.
FROM THE ARCHIVE for supporters / subscribers
ToT July 14 Biking Basics for New Riders #9 Role models (2020)
SoS July 18 Stability, deceleration and steering (2020)
SoS July 11 Stability, quick steering and rate of roll (2020)
ToT July 7 Biking Basics for New Riders #8 The Farmer Brown Test (2020)
SoS July 4 Stability and momentum (2020)
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AND FINALLY, LAST WEEK’S ROUND-UP
MOST RECENT POSTS - These are dual-hosted on FB and Ko-Fi, but the links below take you direct to my Ko-Fi page to enable you to sidestep Facebook where they are FREE TO READ for 60 days.
MYTH-BUSTING MONDAY July 4 ‘Commentary riding is good’ (actually it isn’t)
READ NOW…
Elevenses 251 Sun 3 Jul
WATCH NOW…
SoS July 2 Cueing yourself - Pt 2
READ MORE…
SOBS 1 July The difficulties of 'See and Avoid'
READ MORE
Elevenses 250 Wed 29 Jun 250th Edition SPECIAL
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ToT June 28 Five items for every bike journey #2 Waterproofs
READ MORE…
And from the 60 Second Safety series on YouTube… a ‘special’ on counter-steering
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Kevin Williams / Survival Skills
www.survivalskills.co.uk