Originally Posted by Ducatista
Did mine a few years ago.
Changed my riding dramtically and I would encourage anyone to do an advanced riding course whatever stage you are at. If you are early on in your learning curve then it will give you a good grounding and a lot of confidence, if you've very experienced it will pick up your bad habits.
If I had my time again I wouldn't bother with IAM and would go straight to Rospa.
Much cheaper to start out and they actually keep their members up to scratch with a re-test every three years at no charge.
Most IAM members do not take further training (it is there but it's voluntary so few take it up).
We go on both sets of rideouts and you can see the difference in standards between the Rospa group who are continually re-tested and the IAM who do it once and then after a while drop their standard.