Meet The Team

I have been a motorcycle instructor for over 25 years and have been riding, dare I say for over 35 years and counting!

I studied Horology (clock Making) and worked for over 10 years in and around the UK, worked in the palace of Westminster up keeping/restoring their or should I say our lovely clocks including Big Ben, and most of the prestigious clocks around London, since most of the work involved travelling in London and the rest of the country, the birth of my second son Kristian getting up at 5am working all day then sitting on the M25 until 8pm getting home tired then sleep and the alarm going off again! (ground hog day) a long earned family trip to Australia for a month, this was a pivotal point of my life, and decided that I was going to quit the rat race and decided to give motorcycle training a go full time! (I was teaching people to ride on a part time basis).

So with the quitting of a well paid job, money was tight and I had to use my Kawasaki KE 125 cc and took over the payments of a friend’s 600cc bike and 1066 was born! We now have over 40 bikes of various styles and sizes.

Things were different in the beginning, starting from riding bikes to and from home and to various car parks, there had to be another way! While riding around I found Sidley goods yard disused and neglected I approached Rother District Council and with a lot of persuasion and various planning applications, We got it!

1066 was starting to run as a professional training school, my philosophy was simple, a Good training venue, Safe and secure, Instructors who want to be instructors and to incorporate fun in the training. Over the years training there have been huge changes in the motorcycle training and testing and I like to say we have been at the forefront of training ideas and implemented them in a safe and common sense way.

2013! wow what a year! after all the will it or won’t it the government decided that they would fund and start the new Bexhill to Hastings Link road, great news! …..Apart from it ran straight though our training site! so with our lease not being renewed, new premises needed to be found, and this is where we are now, The old bexhill high school, Down road Bexhill, It’s still a full time site with plenty of space, it’s now what we call home.