There has been an update from the business owner from my bad review of last week. As it turned out, the excuse that I hadn’t completed the notes was used just the once to give the owner time to have a conversation with me. Thereafter, Mr Rodriguez-Lay was told that he was on a waiting list. A standard fob off in the hope that he would take his business elsewhere, which as we know, he did. So, everything in the review was a lie – except for the statement that I didn’t like him. Oddly, Mr Rodriguez-Lay had just enough self awareness to recognise that, but not enough to understand why.
Response from the owner 3 hours agoFirstly, congratulations on passing your test, the more bikers the better. I’m a little confused, you’ve left a review for the wrong training school – B-Bikers Bristol is where you did your CBT, this is B-Bikers Ltd (Newport). After completing your CBT at B-Bikers Bristol, you insisted on being added to the test waiting list – so your CBT must have been satisfactory at the time. You managed to pass the DVSA’s basic riding test via another school (who are a very well established, successful national franchise that really don’t need your help with their PR) – which means you didn’t have any actual further training from B-Bikers Bristol. In short – You’ve left a vindictive little review for the wrong company, for training you didn’t do purely because you didn’t get priority over other clients on a waiting list. As to your instructor – “Never judge a book by its cover”, his calm demeanour belies a lifetime of more miles on more bikes than you or I can only hope to emulate and the fact he chose from his collection a brand new 400cc Royal Enfield to ride that day is immaterial to your training outcome. Also, being likened to James May from Top Gear is not an insult given the other two options. As to the fact you felt your instructor didn’t like you, it transpires he’s a good judge of a man’s character after all.
That last sentence is a nice little burn.
As I said in my comment on the original post on this story, I cringe in embarrassment when I think about what a cackhead I was as a teenager. But really, still behaving like a teenager when you are in your forties, that is cringeworthy.
Yup. Most of us grow out of it. This one didn’t.
Actually, I wasn’t obnoxious like this guy, I just didn’t have my shit together. I could always hold down a job but I was sort of drifting through life without much purpose.
During the day that I spent with him, he boasted that his approach to conflict is to get into a fight. Now, ask yourself, is it any surprise that I wanted no part in his training? This is a man who has reached middle age, but has the maturity of a school kid.
Like you, I went through a period of drifting without any sense of purpose, but neither of us is in the same league as Rodriguez-Lay.
Thank you for the follow on to a satisfactory conconclusion.
Mr Rodriguez Lay seems to have Frances Begbie as a role model.
An’ by the way ‘n’ that,
Happy New Year.
Same to your pig chorus.
I’m happy to read this. Happy new year to all.
Revisiting this post I have to say that this response is just excellent. The guy has just been completely humiliated and destroyed. If you are going to make a tit of yourself, doing it on the internet has the potential to make you a globally famous tit.
In many respects, it’s better than the response I made in the previous post. Rather than go through each lie in detail, he’s responded in a more general way and demolished the whole thing, with the final burn at the end.
Speaking purely as an observer l get the impression this guy’s major experience of riding bikes comes from video games. Apart from the obsession with leaning inside the bike he also has no awareness of the importance of shifting your weight forward and aft.
Anyone with any off road experience (which he seems to claim) would be aware of this.
Went for a ride xmas eve and took a note of my own riding – most of the time in line with the bike but where I had any doubts about the grip l found myself leaning the bike more than myself. Seems l counter lean.
Didn’t know tHat but might be because of several years of motocross where l learnt the bike is a lot stronger than l am ie adOpt a riding style that allows the bike to move around while you still have control.
Seems your student didn’t actually have any real experience.
He was fairly typical of a self-taught rider. Machine control was okay, but sloppy with bad habits. One finger on the levers and revving the engine unnecessarily. Most people who come to us like that are at least open to the possibility that they can improve and tidy up their riding. Not this one. He thought he was a motorcycle god. But didn’t understand counterbalancing. Never watched speedway, I presume. As the day wore on, my initial neutrality became active dislike. I’ve got no time for tossers.