Do you know how to ride? It’s not a question that you should be ashamed of asking yourself. Every rider that has thought about buying a motorcycle isn’t granted the natural ability to operate a motorcycle.
I can tell you I learned to ride with my father and brother. We had dirt bikes and it was kind of a trial under fire. My Dad taught me the basics with the clutch, throttle and gears but the first time I had to stop was a complete nightmare. What can I say, I was 6 years old.
Later in life I joined everyone else on the road and found it was much more difficult riding in traffic than off road. All though it’s you and everyone else out there the bottom line is you have to watch out for you because no one else is going to.
I had a nasty crash when I was 22 years old. It was the high statistic crash. Single motorcycle going into a curve at a rate of speed I couldn’t control. This side lined me for about 4 months due to surgery on my knee. My first venture out was not a happy ending. A car swerving through traffic rear ended me and I broke my tail bone and totaled my bike. This crash kept me off a motorcycle for next 12 years until I decided to take a basic rider course provided by MSF located in Delaware. I cannot begin to tell you how much I learned that I didn’t know before taking this class. I thought I was a good rider at the time but this class made me better. I learned so many things friends and family neglected to show me before. My technical skill was always there but this class made me better in ways that I could never imagine.
I have no affiliation with the MSF or any other organizations but I tell every rider I meet to take either the basic rider course and experienced rider course after they have purchased their new ride.
Taking this course doesn’t mean you don’t know how to ride. It only makes you twice the rider you started out to be. It polishes skills you already have and teaches you skills you didn’t think about before.
Be safe and have fun.
