Warwickshire/Northants das recommendations

[CraigyB]

So decided to get even purer than the caterham and finally go biking in my late 40s.
Cbt passed, theory test booked. Plan is to get on a big bike before next spring, ready for some road trips.

Does anyone have any recommendations for the das, I’m based near rugby but happy to travel a bit for the right instructor.

[podman]

My daughter used this company for her CBT and they where great, looks like they can offer DAS as well, in Northampton

http://www.90-one.com/das.html

One to avoid from Mrs P experience would be:

http://www.karmenzbiketraining.com/contact/

[Kneedragger95]

Camrider in Kettering. I have done both of my CBT's with them and were really helpful, I'll be doing my DAS with them next year.

[SamR380]

Did my CBT with Nik at Bike-Moore and the tuition, equipment and price was great. I've booked on to do DAS with them in October.

They're based near Banbury - http://bike-moore.co.uk/default.html

[MattOz]

Camrider in Warwick, by the Racecourse have a good rep.

[Mr_Tickle]

MattOz said:

Camrider in Warwick, by the Racecourse have a good rep.

My Dad did his direct access this year with these guys. He passed first time and was very happy with them.

[Pravus1]

podman said:

My daughter used this company for her CBT and they where great, looks like they can offer DAS as well, in Northampton

http://www.90-one.com/das.html

One to avoid from Mrs P experience would be:

http://www.karmenzbiketraining.com/contact/

I had the opposite experience. 90-one bikes were absolutely shot and the instruction wasn't that good.

I did my a2 and full licence at karmenz and the bikes were good and the instruction was good. A laugh was had and they pick up very quickly where you are weak

[bridge87]

I used Rugby Rider Training. Should be relatively close to you.
I don't think they do intensive courses, but you can spread the training out to suit you.
Mark felt like a bit of a hard arse during the training, but you forget all that once you've passed.

ETA: Took me about 2 and a half months from no experience to full license with them with relatively spread out lessons (7 in total I think).

[SpudLink]

Pravus1 said:

podman said:

My daughter used this company for her CBT and they where great, looks like they can offer DAS as well, in Northampton

http://www.90-one.com/das.html

One to avoid from Mrs P experience would be:

http://www.karmenzbiketraining.com/contact/

I had the opposite experience. 90-one bikes were absolutely shot and the instruction wasn't that good.

I did my a2 and full licence at karmenz and the bikes were good and the instruction was good. A laugh was had and they pick up very quickly where you are weak

If you do it with 90-one, you’ll ride past my front door, as they are based on the same road.
My only contact with them was when I wanted to do an assessment of my riding, just to address bad habits. Nothing to complain about, but I can’t comment on the quality of instruction for DAS.

[WhisperingWasp]

I used Simon from here:

http://www.ridertraining.biz/direct-access

Ex-Tornado pilot so good enough for me!

[CraigyB]

Thanks all - really appreciate your time to reply.
I'm more of a carrot than stick sort of person, so will ring around and try to get a sense of what will be best for me.

[mattcooke99]

I used https://www.circuitbasedtraining.co.uk/,

I lived in Warks at the time, they’re technically over the boarder in Leics. Zero to hero in a week. No complaints.

[Roadrunner23]

podman said:

My daughter used this company for her CBT and they where great, looks like they can offer DAS as well, in Northampton

http://www.90-one.com/das.html

One to avoid from Mrs P experience would be:

http://www.karmenzbiketraining.com/contact/

Surprised as I had a really good experience with Karl and karmenz. Passed Mod 1 and Mod 2 first time. Check his Facebook page out as there is some really useful feedback on there.

[CraigyB]

Booked in with Camrider, Kettering. Also pretty handy as that's where the test centre is. Towards the end of October. Thanks again all.