COURSE TYPES

MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE COURSES

The Motor Cycle Maintenance Course is the most popular and productive course that we at ORBIT Training deliver. Unlike our other courses, we get to work with the young people over a period of weeks rather than a day, which enables our staff to cover in more detail all the elements to riding motorcycles.

These include:

1) Preparation for Legal Road use

Our trained staff will prepare all students for becoming road users,by explaining and describing what training and documents are required to ride a motorcycle on our roads legally, and how and where to get the required documents. and what the consequences will be if they choose to drive a vehicle on our roads without them.

2) Road safety

All future road users have to sit and successfully complete a hazard perception & theory exam as part of becoming a competent driver/rider on our roads. Our mobile unit carries two on-board computers and during this course, all students will be required on a daily basis to sit an hazard perception & theory exam, aided by a member of the ORBIT staff. Not only does this prepare them for their forth coming exam, but also to enhance their knowledge on road safety. Their daily exam results will be recorded, and at the end of the course it is evident their knowledge on the rules and regulations we as road users have to comply to has vastly improved.

3) Daily checks

This is one of the most important things to do as a motorcyclist, pulling away on a faulty motorcycle could be a matter of life and death. ORBIT staff strongly implement this element of the course. We demonstrate how this is done, by using one of our motorcycles, we make this simple by encouraging students to remember to word, B.O.L.T.S. as they carrying out their daily checks.

• Brakes
• Oil
• Lights
• Tyres
• Steering.

We show how this could be done in five minutes, and reiterate how this could save lives.

4) Motorcycle maintenance & repairs

This can work out to be very costly, especially for a teenage rider, most of whom could not afford the repair bill if their motorcycle was to be repaired in a shop, so would carry on riding the faulty motorcycle, enhancing their chances of an accident. This course allows our trained motorcycle engineers to show young people how to carry out the most common faults that occur on motorcycles like inspecting/replacing brakes, carburetor/fuel problems, to checking and replacing spark plugs and many other components.

5) Panel repairs

This is a fun and very productive element of this course. ORBIT staff will demonstrate how the most damaged panels can be repaired using fibreglass and body filler and a lot of hard work rubbing down with sand paper and re spraying panels so they look like new. This is hard work for the young people but the end product is very rewarding and works out to be a very cost effective way to restoring their motorcycles.

6) Importance of crash helmets

Crash helmets are by far the most important part of safety wear when riding a motorcycle, and must be fastened at all times. We deliver this part of our course with with some hard hitting facts. This method of educating young people about the dangers of not wearing or fastening a crash helmet when riding a motorcycle has proved very effective on previous courses and certainly hits home. ORBIT staff also display a crash helmet sawn in half, to show what they are made of and how they are deemed useless when dropped, we also urge young people not to share crash helmets as they do not know the history on whether its been dropped or is older than five years which again would deem it as useless.

SITE REQUIREMENTS

The requirements for OBRIT Training to deliver this course are as follows:

• An open piece of tarmac land, i.e. car park, school playground, with easy access for a 27ft lorry and preferable near a building with electricity supply, and toilets.