California Motorcycle Safety Foundation Course

[alanmcorcoran]

If anyone is interested, I just completed the California MSF BasicRider Course at OCMT in Anaheim. If anybody is contemplating taking this and wants a preview/review, fire away.

FYI, I do not recommend this course for experienced riders. It is most appropriate for complete noobs, and it's probably a less intimidating way to pass the CA riding test, but the first day of it is spent on material you can easily read in David Hough's book and half of the second day is looking at, or duck walking the bike. By the third day, you get into some useful exercises, but, given the class size and the typical skill distribution (12 riders, and at least two will be bike droppers) a very large percentage of your time is spent sitting around waiting.

There's a figure eight portion of the test that I found to be a bit challenging - I was surprised how well some of the complete novices did on it after only one day of riding.

-Alan.