Race School Instructor

Name: Steve King. Age: 32. Salary: £20,000 (est). Hours: 10 hours a day. Special Requirements: minimum of a national road racing licence. Work Bike: Honda Hornet or FireBlade. Bike Extras: None.

Those that can’t do teach, right? Well, not when it comes to race schools where every instructor has international racing experience – they’ve been there and done it. Steve King has been a bike instructor for the past five years. ” I got the job through word of mouth really. I knew Ron Haslam and he trained me to be an instructor. It’s probably the best job in the world if you enjoy riding motorcycles. ”

Steve spends an average of 5 hours on the track a day instructing people with varying degrees of competency. He instructs at both Haslam’s race school and Foggy’s Ducati Experience and like all great teachers King’s real reward is seeing his efforts bear fruit. ” It’s great when you can change peoples riding for the better. I was instructing this lad, a club racer who’d crashed in each of his 10 meetings. I took him out for three sessions and just worked on his smoothness. He raced the that Saturday and won – that was pretty satisfying. ”