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The Burton & District Sporting Motorcycle club has provided a training facilities (based at Shobnall Leisure Centre, Burton on Trent) for off-road basic and advanced motorcycle training and has offered a service to the local community since 1995 until December 2006.
Our establishment has been well supported by local MPs, Councillors and has received good press coverage.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, our rental agreement was terminated to make way for an alternative development. Working with the local council and the Auto Cycle Union, and viewing eleven alternative sites, a new location was secured with planning permission granted finally in May 2008 for a new all weather track to be build at Kingstanding, Newborough Road, Needwood, Staffordshire.
Our training establishment is a non-commercial venture, run by dedicated volunteers who strive to provide structured motorcycle training, both basic and advanced, giving focus and purpose to all individuals who participate. We have previously worked with youth groups and we are willing to make our facilities available for use by the Police and other authorities to help, support and guide, and hopefully reduce and educate offenders who ride irresponsibly.
As we are not a commercial venture, costs are kept at a minimum to allow more people access to our facilities. Our ethos is simply to provide a friendly, family-like atmosphere which is conducive to the excellent results achieved (whatever level) by our members.
Training sessions took place every Saturday morning with attendance numbers of 30 maximum. We concentrated on younger riders with rev and go and motocross machines between the ages of 6 and 16 for the basic training sessions. All riders were grouped according to age and machine capacity and following risk assessment and briefing, riders participated in basic riding skills and were instructed to a basic level in mx skills.
First time riders from the age of 6 years are coached in basic control skills. Riders of above basic control skills ability are taught, in addition, control under low level adverse conditions (machine control, braking and turning right or left whilst negotiating 6 inch deep loose sand). Riders with suitable ability are coached to negotiate man made ramps and traversing static logs pinned to the ground etc.
Once a rider has achieved a green certificate level of riding skills, they were invited to take part in the training sessions at Kingstanding on the MX beginners/novice training track.
Saturday afternoon sessions adopted the same risk assessment and briefing but focused on the more novice controlled sliding skills on grasstrack/speedway machines. Maximum numbers in attendances was 25. Training takes places where riders are educated in controlled cornering/sliding techniques on the purpose built speedway style circuit, together with manoeuvring the machine off the start line in a controlled and efficient manner.
All training exercises are undertaken and supervised by accredited and certified coaches of the highest calibre
The riders who have attended our training sessions have benefitted enormously from our experience as coaches and the club can boast of nine National Championships in various disciplines in the last two years. Others riders have attained Centre and Club Championships titles all over the country.
We are proud of the fact that we are the only ACU Affiliated Club who has provided weekly training throughout the year and this in itself makes us unique in the services we provide. There are so many riders out there anxious to receive basic and advanced training and it is a facility which has been lacking in the last 18 months since the closure of the track at Shobnall.
Below is a list of some of current and previous members who have benefitted and progressed into the world their chosen discipline. Everything they have achieved is through their own determination. Using our facility gave the opportunity to train and we can only take credit for opening that door for them.
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09/09/2010 13:56
We are sorry we can't make the bar b q sunday but we are at silverstone
