Passed the MSF today!
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 16,013
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From: Sandy Eggo's North County
We have riders that have ridden "hundreds of thousands of miles", take the BRC, and still learn something.
As others have said, "Practice your skills, as they are perishable."
As others have said, "Practice your skills, as they are perishable."
Novice
Joined: Jul 2017
Posts: 22
Likes: 5
From: VA
Best thing I ever did!! My first bike was a 2006 Sportster XL1200 and when I finally got my endorsement I would ride it up and down my "cresent" shaped road until one day some old crotchety lady at the end of the road called the cops on me because she didn't think I had a license! Luckily, I wasn't that dumb!
I still tell myself the "push down left to turn left and push down right to turn right" sometimes!
I still tell myself the "push down left to turn left and push down right to turn right" sometimes!
Road Warrior
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 1,764
Likes: 50
From: Gilbert, AZ
When I started riding again in 2007, I took the MSF course because it seemed to be a better way to get a motorcycle endorsement. I was glad I did, because after not having ridden for 25 years, I was maybe a bit rusty. My point is, it wouldn't hurt anyone to take the course.
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Jan 2015
Posts: 16,013
Likes: 7,139
From: Sandy Eggo's North County
Best thing I ever did!! My first bike was a 2006 Sportster XL1200 and when I finally got my endorsement I would ride it up and down my "cresent" shaped road until one day some old crotchety lady at the end of the road called the cops on me because she didn't think I had a license! Luckily, I wasn't that dumb!
I still tell myself the "push down left to turn left and push down right to turn right" sometimes!
I still tell myself the "push down left to turn left and push down right to turn right" sometimes!
Grand HDF Member
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 4,530
Likes: 607
From: Raleigh NC
Just wanted to share my success today and let anyone know that if you are thinking about getting into motorcycles but you've never touched a bike before, you should consider the MSF course. The class was great and it gives you an opportunity to learn critical skills on someone else's bike.
Looks like I'll be sitting by my mailbox until I get my card in the mail.
Looks like I'll be sitting by my mailbox until I get my card in the mail.
a FAR cry from "my lessons:
Jimmy opens fridge and takes out 2 beers
We walk outside, and open the beers...
This is the foot brake - this is the clutch - this is the shifter, down one for first, up for 2,3,4 - This is your front brake... NEVER touch it or you'll go flying over the handle bars (We'll remove first chance). here is HOW you start the bike (retarding timing) and how to kick start the bike
Then Jimmy sat down in the shade, and instructed me to kick start the bike....
98% of what I was told was BS... but that's what he believed, and that is what he had been told....
Times have changed, and most of the BS that we believed, and passed along to subsequent generations, is no longer even THOUGH... let alone said
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Road Master
Joined: Apr 2011
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From: Ill Annoy
I have both. Flying is a serious money pit. Stay safe either way!
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 471
Likes: 19
From: Grapeland Texas
Times have changed since I got my motorcycle license at the ripe old age of 15 in Houston in the early '70s. I got my MSC on gulf freeway, loop 610, telephone road, old Galveston Rd, and wayside when I got feeling I was indestructible.