Survival Skills -- sponsor of TRC -- Discounts for Members

Survival Skills Rider Training is pleased to be a sponsor of TheRevCounter.com

We're making a range of special offers available to all forum members, with discounts on both our training courses and our e-books on CDROM.

Training Courses
Survival Skills offers a range of courses for all levels of rider. Here are a selection:

Advanced Courses in Kent and Oxford

1 day Bends course - sort your cornering with the core skills required to read and ride corners; steering, positioning, the Vision Line, reference points, "Point and Squirt" and more!
* £160 - save £10 plus 1 free e-book (Course Notes) worth £13

2 day 'Double Bends' course - as above plus an extra day for additional cornering techniques on challenging bends, learning additional techniques like body-shifting and pre-leaning, hairpin technique and learning trail braking into bends to deal with unexpected hazards and decreasing radius turns!
* £310 - save £20 plus 1 free e-book (Course Notes) worth £13

2 day 'Survival Skills' course - use risk assessment and risk management techniques to ride more safely in both busy urban and quiet rural environments, with a full discussion of riding systems and positioning, as well as an introduction to steering, positioning, the Vision Line, reference points, "Point and Squirt" and more for safer, smoother cornering.
* £310 - save £20 plus 1 free e-book (Course Notes) worth £13

3 day 'SuperCourse'
For the rider who wants a bit more time to work on cornering, the Three Day SuperCourse is the answer, offering riders the chance to explore the key skills of the two day Survival Skills course, then add the extra 'Double Bends' day.
* £450 - save £30 plus 2 free e-books (Course Notes + Tarmac Tactics) worth £26

4 day 'SuperCourse' - if you're looking for the ultimate in advanced rider training, you must take look at the Survival Skills Four Day SuperCourse. You'll cover the full content of the two day Survival Skills course on the first two days, the 'Double Bends' day on day 3, and finally on day 4 look at collision avoidance, advanced urban riding skills and an introduction to rider psychology.
* £570 - save £50 plus 2 free e-books (Course Notes + Tarmac Tactics) worth £26
(Please note these prices only apply to training in Kent and Oxford NOT the Tour training)

Advanced Courses - Spin on Tour

Training is available in Tideswell (Peak District), Montgomery (Mid-Wales) and Totnes (Devon) at interval during the year. These courses are usually run 2:1 but 1:1 training is available on request. Drop me a line for prices!


Get out of London

2/3 day 'Escape to the Country' course - if you spend virtually all your life locked inside the M25, and wish you could find some great roads for riding, then this is an opportunity to escape from "The Smoke'.

Our carefully planned route to mid-Wales starts near Oxford (just over an hour from central London) over brunch, then follows a selection of excellent twisty B roads through the Cotwolds and the hills of Worcestershire and Shropshire, with lunch in Tenbury Wells, arriving in the early evening in Montgomery in the Welsh borders.

Accommodation is in a comfortable, mid-priced hotel, with good food and wine on offer, as well as some excellent real ale for the beer drinkers.

Next morning the two day course then heads down towards Llanbister and Presteigne before returning to England and more great roads back to Oxford in the early evening, covering around 300 miles in total.

If you opt for the extra day, then the second day heads up and over the Cambrian mountains and back via some narrow mountain roads (weather permitting) and then back to Oxford on the third day, with around 500 miles being covered over the three days.

* 2 Day / one person £230
* 3 Day / one person £440
* 2 Day / two persons £345
* 3 Day / two persons £535
* for larger groups contact me for a price

Please note this will be a mid-week course to avoid peak tourist bookings and weekend traffic. As the emphasis on this course is enjoying the roads as much as the training, the training element will normally cover my normal "Bends" one day course. Prices exclude accommodation.


Training in France

1 day 'Continental Riding' - not been over the water on a bike before? Worried about touring? Concerned about hairpins in the Alps or Pyrenees?

If you want a relaxed introduction to riding on the right, our carefully planned route out of Calais gives you an excellent sample of riding opportunity on a wide variety of roads including around a dozen hairpin bends - ideal if you are planning an alpine holiday and a full explanation of Priorite a Droit!
* £170 - 2 free e-books (Course Notes + Tarmac Tactics) worth £26


Intermediate Skill Building Courses in Kent and Oxford

1 day Confidence Builder - for newly qualified riders. Boost your basic skills and enjoyment of riding with our specially designed one day Confidence Building course
* £160 - save £10 plus 1 free e-book (Course Notes) worth £13

1 day Creaky Rider - for returning riders designed to bring your riding up to a level of performance that suits modern bikes and traffic conditions and get you up to speed with new training methods. Nevertheless, a free-form element of flexibility is retained to deal with any specific problems you know you have
* £160 - save £10 plus 1 free e-book (Course Notes) worth £13


Assessments

Worried about whether you are up to advanced training? Want an independent opinion on your riding? Just want to meet me before you commit yourself to a course?

Take a 3 hour Riding Assessment with Survival Skills for £50, and have your riding checked out by a qualified instructor and be recommended the best route to continue your development.


For more information check the website at www.survivalskills.co.uk
or drop me a mail!

OFFERS FROM THE SURVIVAL SKILLS SHOP

SURVIVAL SKILLS e-books on CDROM: Survival Skills offers three e-books for riders

Survival Skills (Course Notes) - Course Notes is a structured guide to developing the basics of advanced riding skills. It explains the techniques in a logical progression, tells you what they are for, how to apply them and what the pitfalls are, and also suggests alternatives where there are areas of riding where expert riders hold different opinions. Explanations of how your brain operates allow the reader to see how to use that knowledge to further enhance their learning and riding skills:

"I bought Survival Skills and Tarmac Tactics some time back when he had a special offer on for the pair of them.

They're very well written, and the great thing about them is that they're not "cookbooks" (i.e. to get the end result, follow this recipe...). What you get is a clear and very readable explanation of the hows and the whys of riding, carefully broken down into the individual aspects so you get the fundamental understanding to build on, rather than having to try and take a more complex situation apart.

Plus I found some of the stuff in there downright fascinating, particularly the sections on how you think and react while riding, and how to train your instinctive reactions into doing the right thing in an emergency. Plus there's a selection of stories from his experiences as an instructor - some of which had me laughing, and some of which had me cringing. So, er, yes... they get a big thumbs up from me."

Tarmac Tactics - looks at different scenarios you'll encounter on the road. It shows how to assess the dangers as you ride by looking at accidents statistically, so that you can better see where dangerous situations are likely to arise and you can choose to approach them with a better awareness of the risks

Getting Started - has everything you need to know if you are thinking about learning to ride or just starting out on two wheels. Guides to law and licences will explain how to get onto two wheels. Once you have your provisional licence, the CDROM will offer you comprehensive help from a qualified instructor to get you through your test with minimum fuss
v2.0 now covers Module One Off Road Exercises

* buy one for £12 - saving £0.99
* buy two for £23 - saving £2.98
* buy all three for £34 - saving £4.97

Other Stuff from the Shop

CE-approved impact resistant, frameless wraparound sunglasses

Available in smoke, iridium, clear and contrast enhancing yellow.
Also available are soft, protective carry cases for these glasses.

* £11 per pair - saving £1
* £9 for the carry case - saving £1
* £18 for one pair of glasses and the carry case - saving £2


Teeshirts

Corded earplugs

Hi Vis sleeved "waistcoasts" and Poloshirts (perfect for instructors doing summer CBTs!)

Recommended Books for Rider Improvement (order via the link direct from Amazon.co.uk)

SPECIAL SUMMER 2010 OFFER!

As well as the TRC discounts of £10 per day on all courses, if you book and pay a deposit in July and August this year for training in August and September, there will be a FURTHER DISCOUNT of £10 per day:

• a one day course will cost just £150 - saving £20!
• a two day course will cost just £290 - saving £40

Start saving now !!