Ride-drive.co.uk

[chococo]

I have a special birthday present to buy for a tiv owner, and I wondered if any fellow owners would recommend or have used a company I have found in "the Sprint" magazine called Ride-drive.co.uk who deal in training days for handling your tiv on skid pans, and at speed etc. Before I spend quite alot of money just wanted to ask you guys if you have any experience with them? Answers please, as Christmas is a-coming!Cheers!

[roy e6]

Yep been there done that. Brilliant. Worth every penny,helps you to completely understand the handling characteristics of your car.

[Terry Tibbs]

two day course

[garstead]

If you do go for it ask for an instructor who is an advanced police instructor rather than an advanced driver to get the most from the day. There is a difference, especially if the advanced driver is the old class 2.
Enjoy.

[SVS]

Hi there,

I highly recommend RideDrive What a great Christmas present!

By way of comparison, I've also done a wide variety of other road and track courses in the UK and abroad. RideDrive is one of the very best out there.

I've done 2-3 days with RideDrive in the car, plus their OCN Level 3 accredited course on the bike. (For anyone interested, I found the OCN Level 3 course to be the motorcycling equivalent of HPC.)

garstead said:

If you do go for it ask for an instructor who is an advanced police instructor rather than an advanced driver to get the most from the day. There is a difference

I second that. Some sort of instructional expertise is a bonus that's well worth having. I asked for, and got, an ex-police driving school instructor. He was utterly brilliant

I also second the comment about doing a 2-day course. You get more than twice the value out of it. E.g. doing two half-days is far better than one single day.

Hope this helps, but please don't hesitate to ask any more queries

Edited by SVS on Sunday 2nd December 17:55

[PetrolTed]

Another vote from me. Great fun.

[pbond]

I definitely recommend Ride-Drive.

I did their two-day advanced TVR handling course in September 2003 and reckon it was the best performance enhancement I could buy for my Chimaera 450.

I went to Leeds from the South coast, purely because they had the use of an oil & water skid pan (no, I didn't take the Chimaera on that!) and found the instructor excellent. At the time he was a Police instructor, but I think he was intending to retire from the force in 2004, so he may be doing Ride-Drive courses all the time now.

Highly recommended and anyone who hasn't done one of these courses and thinks they don't need to is fooling themselves.

[Fat Audi 80]

Absolutely fantastic. Can't recommend them highly enough!

[ipsg.glf]

I've done 1.5 days with them over the years. Very, very good.

[SVS]

pbond said:

... anyone who hasn't done one of these courses and thinks they don't need to is fooling themselves.

I second that.

(And I'd done numerous track days before my first RideDrive course, but still learned a huge amount .)

[dhutch]

Sounds good, might have to give them a call!!!

[Johnniem]

Definitely go for it! An amazing day!