| Girls Angels created quite
a stir when we opened early in 2003. In March last year no one
had ever seen a pink hi-vis bib. By July our ‘highly responsive’
trademark fluorescent stuff has been spotted from Donnington
to Brighton, in a number of national newspapers and on TV.
There’s more to GA than pink though.
Our colour isn’t a gimmick; it’s a state of mind!
We learnt to ride a bike the usual way. With a bunch of blokes.
Just like everyone who learnt to ride before GA was born.
However, we felt there might be a better way to bring people
to biking, and GA is it. We specialise in training women.
But we’ll teach anyone to ride a bike, ride it well
and ride with a smile. CBT classes are kept single-sex –
let’s face it, if you’ve never ridden a bike before,
then CBT is the toughest day you’ll have for a long
time.
The last thing you really want to deal with,
if you’re a terrified grown-up woman who’s having
a bit of trouble with the whole balance issue, is staying
out of the way of the smug guy who’s already up to changing
gear. The single-sex classes work well, students have a great
time and everyone is able to learn at their own pace.
Girls Angels isn’t about feminism, political
correctness or positive discrimination. It’s about bringing
a different outlook to a very traditional industry. Any experienced
biker will tell you that you can’t ride really well
unless you are enjoying yourself. At GA having fun is part
of the equation, right from the start. Our instructors, male
and female alike are picked for their enthusiasm and people
skills as much as their competence on two wheels. Something
all our instructors have in common is their un-common approach
to teaching and life alike.
Earlier this summer, we moved from our Fulham
base and came under the experienced wing of Get Bike Training
in Hanwell. We have state of the art facilities, lots of off-road
parking and are able to offer everything you could possibly
need to make your transition onto two wheels as painless as
possible: from training to insurance, scooters to superbikes,
MOTs to helmets, it’s all here under one roof.
Our address may have changed but our philosophy
remains the same. Our company motto “Serious Fun”
came from the one of the people we value most at Girls Angels
– our students.
As our second season winds down, we have taught a lot of people
to ride motorbikes, and half of them were women. That feels
about right. There are roughly equal portions of both in this
world – it would be silly to ignore half of them wouldn’t
it? Men and women are different, people are different, and
so are The Girls Angels.
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