World of BMW has opened a second training school, in Stoke-on-Trent.
Like the school in the south-east, the new northern location will support BMW’s “industry-leading guaranteed Direct Access pass and A2 upgrade offers”.
Owned by Ian Biederman, who has been operating motorcycle training schools for more than 20 years, the BMW Rider Training School was started in 2005 in South Wales. In 2012 it moved the school to Royston, Hertfordshire, for a more centralised location in the UK.
The school, which claims to have “the best facilities of any motorcycle rider training school in the UK” says its customers travel from all over the world. Of its Royston operation, it states: “It is housed in a modern building with classroom, lounge, changing rooms, kitchen and toilet facilities as well as the garage for the bikes. No drafty portable cabins on a school yard, or bike parked in someone’s back garden with us.
“Our training arena … is exclusively ours and this allows greater flexibility in training dates compared with schools that rent or borrow school yards or car parks for odd days or weekends.
“The training arena is DSA approved for training of CBT riders. It is considerably larger than the minimum requirement and so is licensed for training up to six CBT trainees simultaneously. It is also large enough to allow training and practice of the Module 1 test manoeuvres including the swerve avoidance and emergency stops. This is vitally important for safe and responsible training of the Module 1 test.”