Ultimately, though, all this track- and skills-based training must be carried over to the road. I would love to see the California Superbike School collaborate with an advanced road-based training or-ganisation to develop a module for those of us who want to maximise the application of the track-based training to the road. In the meantime, I am now looking for an advanced riding instructor with a similar technical knowledge and training methodology as the California Superbike School coaches, who can help me fully achieve that carry over.
Reflecting back on that early conversation with Nick, I now see where the California Superbike School revolution in my riding actually occurred. At some moment on the track or in the classroom at Silverstone, something flicked an internal switch, or reset my dials. Since then, I see riding from a very different perspective. I now really understand the power of knowledge and the necessity of continual training. I better appreciate that riding a motorcycle is so much more than a functional activity to get us from A to B; it is an art-form, a quest for continual self-improvement and mastery of something that generates in us great satisfaction. I respect more the intimate bond, the connec-tion, between rider and machine.
And I am now unequivocal in my view that we all owe it to ourselves to become the best riders we can possibly be, in order to increase our chances in what we all know is a dangerous sport.
Yes - I can indeed see why some call the CSS a religion.
The 2017 California Superbike School training schedule in the UK kicks off in April.
This year the School will also be offering training in Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Nor-way, Latvia, Turkey, Ireland, Dubai and Bahrain.
To view the dates, locations and book a day’s training, click……
http://www.superbikeschool.co.uk/
One of the coaches demonstrating how it is done on a 1200cc tourer
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