camriderReviews of camrider.com

No great, I booked the complete course, CBT instructor was excellent, then every other instructor was a nice person, BUT, never really taught me anything! Never had same instructor twice,When I took my test I failed, and after examiner de briefings realised I was totally unprepared. Waste of money really, could another company now, like night & day difference.

They don't pass you and ask for another £95! Having purchased day CBT course,I was surprised that not ALL elements of the course were done during the day. The instructor felt myself and others on the course were not ready for the road, and had to go away and practice more? I don't have my own bike. The whole point was that their instruction (if good) would prepare us for the road. Came away a little down beat. Having been told I would need to book another course at £95. Wonder how many times this happens?!

I’ve been riding for 15 years just in the US so need CBT and some help becoming familiar with UK laws. So signed up for a full license class CBT to Mod2 with CamRider. The instructors were great and the class size is limited to two so everything seemed fine. It all went side ways very quickly. On the day of my CBT I was paired with a novice rider which was fine, she wanted to learn to ride and it was great the instructor could give her more time. She was having a hard time but didn’t give up. I personally didn’t think she was ready to go out on the road after lunch, but I’m not an instructor so what do I know. Well 30 mins in to the ride she crashed in to a parked car. She was ok luckily, just a little shook up. Because of this we didn’t get to finish the CBT that day, which was completely understandable. I went out the following week and completed the rest of the CBT and all was good in the world. Two weeks later I was back out there for another day on the 125cc and to start the 600cc riding. Well the first part of the ride on the 125 consisted of sitting in traffic for over an hour on our way to the testing centre to check the other students documents. Fine it was still a road ride and it’s good to have experience in traffic. Then we spent another hour in traffic getting back to the training centre. At this point they were going to switch us over to the big bikes. However I couldn’t get comfortable on the bikes they had. A year of lockdown and lack of flexibility were the issues, my fault not theirs. They gave me a bunch of options and in the end it was decided that I would take the time until my next class to work on myself to be comfortable on the bike. I decided that the 3 weeks wasn’t enough and asked them to reschedule 3 weeks after that. They said no problem and everything was a go for July 21st class and Mod1 test on the 22nd. On July 19th I get a call saying that since it had been a long time between my classes they wanted me to book another day on the 125cc at £160 since I would be rusty. I’ve been riding for 15 years… what’s another day on the 125 going to do to help? It just seems like they were looking for a quick way to get another £160 out of me. I will say they did promptly refund my remaining classes without issue, but now I stuck without my license and summer will be over before we know it. I would seriously consider other training centres before Camrider.

A very mixed bag! Unfortunately, there appears to be a trend with motorcycle riding schools in that they tend to employ ex-services / forces personnel. What this means is despite being in your mid 30s you will be spoken to like you are a 17-year-old recruit. I.e. prepare to be sworn at and at times shown very little respect. This would not be acceptable in any other services industry, and it certainly felt that the fact I was paying for a service was lost on them. The standard of tuition varied considerably with each instructor. One day you would have a lot of input and feedback around technical aspects of your riding and how to improve. Other days you would just get "why are you doing that!" One-way radios are also an issue, particularly when you can't hear what is being said and can't ask instructors to repeat themselves. I'm confident that the only reason I passed was because I was riding a bike for 4 days straight and with enough practise, you'd get it anyway. Having days where the only instruction was "turn your f'ing indicator off" had very little to do with it. My DAS course took place in Werrington Peterborough.