Heard a very brief blurb on the local TV news this am that the MSF is changing their course at Camp Pendleton in an effort to prevent the large number of military rider injuries and deaths despite the standard MSF course they must pass in order to get a license. Any one know exactly how they are changing the course? It was also stated that the MSF will begin offering the revised course to civilians in the spring but the report gave no details. Obviously someone finally figured out that teaching people to ride small bikes on an empty parking lot does NOT really prepare them to ride a pwoerful bike on the busy freeways of SoCal. DUUHHHH..... Imagine what the freeways would look like if car drivers went out there with as little training as what bikers are sent out with.Yikes.

 

I don't think the MSF ever believed that their licensing course was all a rider needed to become a skilled rider. It's a beginner course.With the experienced rider course, riders practice u turns, figure eights, emergency braking, and cone weaving among other skills. It's a course meant to improve riding skills but nothing takes the place of practice and experience.

 

barjbar... the only different between the range portion of the ERC and the BRC is the ERC uses your bike. They teach the same thing, and neither has much to do with riding on the street. I'm not saying that they are bad, just that the BRC and ERC are basically the same thing on the course.

 

If it is the same thing the Navy did with us, it's just the ERC. This will do nothing to stop a young knucklehead from doing wheelies down I-5. It's just another CYA move by the military.