About Us

Where did the name Exceptional Rider Training come from?

The founder of Exceptional Rider Training Mr Ronn Tapp was conducting a restricted or A2 course back in 1999. There were 6 students on the course, (back then 6 was the maximum allowed by the DSA. It is now been reduced to a maximum of 4).

Ronn recalls, ” when I found out there were 6 students on the course, I remember thinking.....How I am going to keep 6 students safe out on the road?!!”

My answer was to take them to a nearby industrial estate and work with them on junctions and roundabouts until everyone of them was able to complete the course I had set out for them before we headed out onto the road.

Three days later we were at the test centre at Wallington in Croydon. The test centre was in the old Town Hall. Behind this is the Wallington Library and between the two was a cafeteria where we would base ourselves prior to the tests. It was a very busy test centre with three motorcycle examiners.

So the students started going out for their tests. First one passed, second passed, third passed....
....There were a number of other instructors from the area present and a buzz started to go round the cafeteria that I had three passes and three to go.
Normally by lunchtime the number of instructors and students thins out to just the people booked for afternoon tests. This day most people stayed to see the outcome.
Number four passed, number five and when I returned with number six we were greeted by a standing ovation. Six out of six, not a bad days work!!

When we returned to the office we had a comments book for the students to sign. The comment that stuck in my head was from one of the six, “ I have just had the most incredible day of my life, Ronn is nothing short of Exceptional!!”

Ronn then thought, “If I ever get to start my own riding school that is what I shall call it. Exceptional Rider Training!" and in May 2007 this dream became a reality...