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joseaventurero said:
I want to do the m1 exit but :confused:, with so many school's where to go, any tips ,recommendations, I live in the gta,
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I did mine with RTI and it was worth every penny. I learned a lot and passed (not everyone did) and it was definitely challenging at times especially the low speed stuff. But I did take a lot from them, it was professional, informative and mature.

However I've heard great things about other schools like Learning Curves as well so it's really whatever is easily accessible to you depending on where you live. Good on you on choosing to attend a riding school - I'll tell you right now.. be smooth and look where you want to go.. It'll make things a LOT easier if you figure this out before the course.
 
RTI because of the variety of bikes offered. You can try many different ones, which will help you decide what to get later on if you're not set on something yet. I believe they also offered free retests, not sure if other courses do.

Humber is another popular option but they mostly have small cruisers and that's it. Unless things have changed recently.

I haven't heard too many negative comments about any of the courses offered in GTA. They are mostly run by passionate people who care about riders and motorcycles.
 
Learning curves. Also a variety for bikes available to try. Knowledgeable first class instructors.
 
I did mine at Centennial college, Ashtonbee campus. Learned a lot from these guys, I had never been on a bike before. Unlike some of the other schools, this one does offer 3 types of bikes but you need to choose one from day one and you stay on it for the duration. It's a great learning environment, the instructors were top notch and you are definitely ready for the test. If you happen to fail, they charge $45 for re-tests.
 
I went with Learning Curves and loved it, but I had riding experience. My buddy went with me without even knowing how to drive standard and never sitting on a bike before and he was asked to come back to a smaller class cause he couldn't keep up. He ended up failing and going to Sheridan or Humber, can't remember now but he said the instructors were more patient etc. with him and he passed. As always YMMV and they have different instructors.
 
Macs said:
I went with Learning Curves and loved it, but I had riding experience. My buddy went with me without even knowing how to drive standard and never sitting on a bike before and he was asked to come back to a smaller class cause he couldn't keep up. He ended up failing and going to Sheridan or Humber, can't remember now but he said the instructors were more patient etc. with him and he passed. As always YMMV and they have different instructors.
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I hope your buddy talked to our office to let us know how he felt. We usually have a bunch of people in each class that have never driven a stick shift before and often some who have never even driven a car. We do our best to pay extra attention to these people to ensure that they don't fall behind. If he felt that our instructors were not being patient enough with him we'd like to know, we try our best to make all of our students successful.

Learning Curves does also offer free retests, which includes some practice time with an instructor.
 
Lunatic said:
I hope your buddy talked to our office to let us know how he felt. We usually have a bunch of people in each class that have never driven a stick shift before and often some who have never even driven a car. We do our best to pay extra attention to these people to ensure that they don't fall behind. If he felt that our instructors were not being patient enough with him we'd like to know, we try our best to make all of our students successful.

Learning Curves does also offer free retests, which includes some practice time with an instructor.
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He spoke to Don about it at length, he doesn't blame anyone though and he says the college course was insanely easy cause of the skills he picked up. I do remember our class was all relatively experienced though, he was the only one who was *that* new. I guess he just needed the seat time. He still raves about Goldie and Cat, lol.
 
Macs said:
He spoke to Don about it at length, he doesn't blame anyone though and he says the college course was insanely easy cause of the skills he picked up. I do remember our class was all relatively experienced though, he was the only one who was *that* new. I guess he just needed the seat time. He still raves about Goldie and Cat, lol.
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Yeah, some people do just need more seat time. I'm glad to hear he talked to the office though, we get a lot of great positive feedback but if nobody ever tells us what they didn't like it's difficult to fix it.
 
Acadian1974 said:
and some pretty cool discounts on gear with RTI's vendor partners

www.ridertraining.ca/partners
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Throwing in discounts, well the owner of Suzuki of Newmarket said I can offer a discount to all Learning curves students. If I'm not specifically your instructor, just bring in something that shows you took the course. I work up stairs selling gear, accessories and parts.
 
Not sure if Learning Curves still uses the same location as I did my course a few years ago but if they do, it's right across the street from Burger Priest, that alone should be the deciding factor.
 
SRADguy said:
Not sure if Learning Curves still uses the same location as I did my course a few years ago but if they do, it's right across the street from Burger Priest, that alone should be the deciding factor.
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Yes, we're still at that location, as well as Honda's head office off Elgin Mills in Markham.
 
I took mind at Ashtonbee as well and loved it. Honestly, pick any school you want and you can't really go wrong. It's all essentially the same curriculum and will get you started just fine. Have fun!
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