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So I'm finally starting my MSF course tonight

lots of peeps use it as an intro to riding having never been on a bike before. can't hurt to brush up on the basics. :teeth this course won't teach you how to corner or anything like that. just to show you how to ride a bike.

oh ya, heard a story of an older woman in her 40s or 50s taking the course. rides a harley. doing it for insurance benefits. thought she knew all there was to know about riding. she revs up the 125, lets the clutch out and the bike wheelies. doesn't know what to do and doesn't have the strength to close the throttle (she's hanging onto the bars basically). BAM! goes and hits a wall and dies. BTW, she wore a half helmet and no other gear other than some basic gloves and designer boots. don't know if it's urban legend or if it really happened but just food for thought.
 
Yeah dude..the average person was a 40+ year old woman who has a Harley...I felt out of place.
 
don't even concern yourself w/ that. :hand :D just learn as much as you can from the class and get your $'s worth. ask any questions ya have about riding. that's what they're there for. just don't ask em how to drag knee in the corners or wheelie (not that they can't but they probably won't answer you w/ a serious answer. :D)
 
I was the only one in class answering his questions. I hope I'll learn something on the riding day. I have to be there at 6:45am on Saturday morning....if its not wet maybe I'll take my bike. Haha..
 
ha...good luck frOng!

I remembered that!....pretned to mount on the bike in classroom...

yea, remmeber to close your visor during the riding test.....have fun and good luck!
 
"It looks like a great day to ride"
"I feel like I'm getting better with every turn"
"I've been waiting for you for [too long]" husband hands over keys
"Honey, we're out of shampoo!" couple uses this as an excuse to ride to the store
"What do all these riders have in common? They all took the MSF/CMSP course"
:p

Yeah, yeah, I probably butchered all those quotes. Stay alert, don't be late, and have fun!
 
Pay attention to the part about counter-steering and looking through the corner. It will save your life and bike on countless occasions.
 
MackeyStingray said:
oh ya, heard a story of an older woman in her 40s or 50s taking the course. . don't know if it's urban legend or if it really happened but just food for thought.
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It's got to be an urban legend, because I believe they don't let you ride your own bike??

I know the classes up this way don't let you use your own.??
 
agent87 said:
"It looks like a great day to ride"
"I feel like I'm getting better with every turn"
"I've been waiting for you for [too long]" husband hands over keys
"Honey, we're out of shampoo!" couple uses this as an excuse to ride to the store
"What do all these riders have in common? They all took the MSF/CMSP course"
:p

Yeah, yeah, I probably butchered all those quotes. Stay alert, don't be late, and have fun!
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lol

"They all know the joy... of riding!"
 
You can ride your own bike if its 350cc or less...otherwise they give you 125cc or 250cc, and I doubt you could pop it up on a 125 that easily.
 
Class

Oh I remember about that, pretending to mount and dismount on a bike while sitting in class. I think my class there was some morons that could not even do that much. 5 of them rode HD, the reason they took the MSF class was that they all failed the DMV skills test LOL.

BTW, None of the MSF cours up northern California lets you take your bike for pratice since it is against DMV insurance crap. Have fun on Saturday. The only thing I hate was to take the helmet off/on every time we dismount/mount on the bike since I heard they got sue for a coouple millon dollars becuase some idot could not hear the instructions correct.
 
Make sure you eat your wheaties cause you gonna push your classmate accross the parking lot and you have to walk the bike for 1/2 a mile till they let you turn on the engine :teeth
 
Chrono said:
lol

"They all know the joy... of riding!"
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:laughing

i don't know if anyone else caught this. in the "dont-drink-and-ride" video, and the "know-the-locations-of-everything-on-the-bike" video, they've got those two annoying actors/models that yammer back and forth and finish each others sentences and stuff.

it looks like the videos were filmed in the early 90's ... but i thought the guy-actor looked really familiar, but couldn't quite place him.

turns out, it's "Chip" from Drew Carey's improv show "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" on ABC.

ok, *I* thought it was funny.
 
fr0ng said:
You can ride your own bike if its 350cc or less...otherwise they give you 125cc or 250cc, and I doubt you could pop it up on a 125 that easily.
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My son didn't have any problem wheelying an RM-125 in the dirt when he was first learning to ride it ("you have to rev it up a bit before letting the clutch out. Arrggh! DON'T LET IT OUT SO QUICKLY!!"). Of course, he wasn't able hang on to it as it flew off upside down and landed a couple of feet from a new car. We lucked out with no injuries to anyone or anything on that one.

I'm sure the story about the 40 year old woman is in the urban legend category.
 
these aren't 2-strole dirt bikes??

they're cruisers, and standards. I rode a kz250?, I think?
 
Hey a word of advice come in at least 20 min early to the first class ... they mess up the class room #'s in DeLa Mar my friend was taking that class not too long ago they locked the door ... one person was 1 min late cause of the #'s mess up and they told her to reschedule .... strict
 
Eric in Davis said:
Be sure to get into an argument about counter-steering. They love that. Try and convince some of the other students that the instructor is a jack-ass, and tell them that if they want to go right they should turn right ;)
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Crap, Eric - you just made me spit diet Coke all over my nice clean monitor!!! :laughing

-BMT
 
just be a good student and have an open mind. think how all the training relates to your riding, even the "air bike" drills. that kind of stuff can help you in a panic situation when you don't remember your right from your left, stop from go, etc. :p in alot of classes you run simulations - shooting guns, driving a car, piano, what have you. how real can you make it in your head. now they'll put on the bike. Go! remember smoothness counts even at these speeds. have fun!
 
I took my class in the late summer and it was just too hot. Sitting in on the hot parking lot waiting for your turn. lol

Just remember FINE-C, took me a few mintues to start the bike before the instructor fliped the kill switch for me.

Rob
 
"it flew off upside down and landed a couple..."

I took my MSF class in 1989. We has a guy do the same thing Bad Dads son did. He was on a DR250? It was the Honda Dual purpose bike. Had a 1/4 fairing on it. Gray in color.

The only other accident we had involved a middle aged woman. She rode her 125 Rebel straight off a parking block WFO in 1st gear. Hit the chain link fence, bent it into the bushes and was thrown back into the parking lot. That was a rather comical sight.
 
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