Sidecar School

"Learning to ride a sidecar is not difficult - the hardest thing is forgetting everything that comes automatically when you ride a solo" - I can't sum it up any better than a visitors comments after his first ride on a sidecar around the Alpilles - the little alps, our own personal test track and training ground.

If you've never tried it, the concept of accelerating hard into a bend to give the sidecar extra stability seems completely wrong, but after a few hours of 'ground school' and some hands-on experience on our fleet of brand-new Ural sidecars you will see just how straight-forward it all is.

Sidecars have always had a bad press from people who have never tried one but after our two-day acclimatisation course you will be confident enough to tell them otherwise.

Based in St Remy de Provence in the sunny south of France we can offer the perfect environment for your first experience of sidecar riding.  As Ural and Royal Enfield dealers we have a fleet of new machines and the backup to keep them in perfect condition. The Ural is a great bike to start on, its very solid and stable, having been designed from the ground up as a sidecar ensemble it is completely predictable at all speeds.

  The course will start with a classroom session each morning or afternoon where over coffee and croissants we can go through the background to getting the thing to go round corners safely and go straight smoothly.  As the whole point of sidecars is to ride, each session comprises an accompanied ride-out with the routes chosen especially to highlight different aspects of sidecarism.

The two-day course doesn't end in a test - there are no special qualifications needed to ride a sidecar in Europe beyond a normal motorcycle license, rather the emphasis is on riding well and safely, our aim being to wave you off at the end of the course completely capable of riding off into the sunset - indeed we offer courses timed to allow you to join our european tours after your two class days.

Courses cost £350 UK sterling for the two days including bike hire, notes and tuition with a maximum class of three riders. All courses are based in St Remy.

For more details please call us directly on 00 33 432 60 15 66 from the UK or
Europe or 011 33 432 60 15 66 from the USA or use our contact page.