Just did a track day on a blade at the Ron Haslam School at Silverstone, would recomend it, just make sure you don't pick a day where it never stops raining.
If I was doing one, I think it would be my choice too. I'd fancy a lap or two as the great man's pillion an'all.
You got to do the 600s first which is about £290 all in then you can do the elite which comes in at 389 but you get 5 or 10% off so it comes in a 360, and you get 1 to1 tuition.
Ive done the 600 package was a mint day learnt a lot! was at DP going back 5 years or so haha!! I fancy doing the elite package but never get round to it ;(
have you not seen video clips of how he rides with a pillion. saying that it would be 1 hell of an experience
Ron Haslam was their with his leathers and he does a bit of the data tagging, which shows how big your balls are going into the corners.
You'd have to though Fez. Wouldn't you. If you were there and the opportunity arose you'd not be able to say no. Every scar on my body has come from this single axiom. I'm my own worse enemy and always will be. Especially now that Darth Maul is dead.
When I did mine I was following the instructor down CC I was on the 600rr speedo covered and felt like I was flying!!! Then Ron haslem came in the inside with knee down and a pillion on the blade I then thought I I am shit!! I then went back to Donny a week later to watch motogp and I was 1 minute a lap slower than Rossi haha :-/
I did the 600s at Donny with my youngest which we both enjoyed it .There was a strict no overtaking rule but after a couple of outings and with the instructor in front the boy overtook me just under the bridge before foggys and as i was not expecting it i never lived it down because all i got was i took out the old man at Donnington'' Bastard!!''
The only thing learned was how to position myself correctly on the bike for cornering, to tell the truth i was doing it any way, but now i can tell others exactly how to do it. That, and i learned to slide the beautiful little CBR600 F Sport, under power out of corners, but they didnt tell me how to do that. Its amazing the things you are prepared to try when it isnt your bike! I was not impressed really, first session and i was paired up with a guy on a GS1000 who had passed his test 12 months before and was very slow, i told the instructor that i was much faster than him and that i'd done a few trackdays at the track and he was a lot slower (he was with the guys who i went with, so i did actually know him) than me. The instructor ignored my pleas to be paired up with someone more capable, probably thinking he has "heard this before, and "the so called slower guy was faster than the guy who was protesting" . But it was not so, so i spent the first of only 3 sessions riding round a circuit that i knew well, with only one hand on the bars, sitting up, going a hell of a lot slower than i would have done on the road. I was then paired up with a Sidecar driver, which was a lot better. The following two sessions were fantastic, i wore through my boots to such and extent that i had to put my foot on the clutch cover going round Melbourne coz my socks were showing through the hole. I just wish i had three sessions like that, to be sliding the bike under power on the second lap instead of the last, i really dont know what i would have been doing on the third! Well, yes i do, lying in am amublance, saying "it was all going so well till ................" Anyway, i would enlist the help of a mate who does a lot of trackdays, and who can also tell you what you should be doing while following/leading you round. It would be cheaper and you would get more track time.
