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warby221
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Post by warby221 »

well Squiffy seeing how I live in car crime central IE Blackburn honest its worse than central Manchester London Glasgow and a few others and the plod seem to do sod all about it for reasons I wont go into for fear of looking like a bigot (that im not) :x
my insurance is £-----------------------------------------------wait for it 260 for the two bikes tpft remember now one bike is 10 years old and the other is 20 I have full no claims and just 3 points (sp30 of course) and no accidents in the last 20 years car or bike :cry:


But honest squiffy im not bitter :roll:
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Zakalwe
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Post by Zakalwe »

Well, I did the 90 minute assesment (details here).

The asseser was a guy called Andy Griffiths who runs the Northern Route bike training school in Kendal.

To be fair, he didn't really have anything to add to my riding (yes I am *that* good :D* ).... a bit of advice on smoothness and positioning at junctions, but it was still well worth doing. He reckons that I could possibly go in at level 3, definitely at level 2.

So I am going to have a little look into this.....at the end of the day, training is good...and if I decide to do the DIAmond test then that should be worth a bit off the insurance???

I am now gonna investigate the




*this may be an outright lie :oops:
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warby221
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Post by warby221 »

nice one m8
think i'll have to look in to this one to
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sparrowlegs
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Post by sparrowlegs »

Think i'll have to have a go at this....its been a while since i did my advanced and i'm not getting out as often on the bike, i could do woth a polish.
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Post by storminateacup »

http://bikesafe.co.uk/ lists all the venues links to dates etc.
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