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The Knee Down courses are run at various locations in the UK, with prices starting from £199 per day. It’s a full day of theory and exercises, with plenty of time for riding. Group size is limited to six learners to allow enough personal coaching for everyone. The aim is to grow the learners’ confidence and ability in cornering safely, controlling the bike, and ultimately getting the knee down. The bikes are provided by i2i, so you just need to bring your own riding gear (preferably leathers with knee sliders).

For further information: i2imca.com

round in circles with no hands on the handlebars. Doing something like this would have seemed like sheer madness at the start of the day, but now it made perfect sense. And, what’s more, it wasn’t even that hard!

As I was taking a breather and sipping a cup of coffee by the training ground, I couldn’t quite believe how far we had already come in such a short space of time – and we hadn’t even ventured into the knee-down bit yet. At the start of the day we had all been visibly nervous and unsteady, but looking at the guys now, circling around with no hands on the bars, it was like a different group had taken over. Before I was able to congratulate myself too much, it was time for the day’s main event: the kneedown practice. Tom started by talking us through the correct body positioning we needed to adopt to get our knees down safely and in a controlled manner. We were each going to move our body sideways to the inside corner, make sure that our spine lined up with the bike, put the balls of our feet on the pegs, anchor the outside knee to the tank, turn the inside knee out, and… well... that was it! No twisting around or desperately stretching to reach the ground, just a slight adjustment to our riding position, while still in full control of the machine. It all sounded simple. Jumping on the bike, my first couple of circles felt okay, but my knee was nowhere near the ground and I knew I could push for a bigger lean angle.