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Get off the bike and counterweight using your body on the figure eight... it makes it so much easier. That being said, skills test is ludicrously easy. There was this girl that got an 84 on her written test (I honestly have no idea how you get below, say, a 96...). SHe was absolutely horrible at anything bike related on the skills test. She didn't even do a figure eight in the box. She didn't fall off, but she went at least 30 feet outside of the box twice and put her foot down 7 or 8 times. She passed. Adiabatic fucked around with this message at May 22, 2013 around 13:28 |
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| # ? May 26, 2013 05:17 |
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I'll go one further and say if you've been riding for a while and can't pass the skills test you should have the bike taken away from you. It is ludicrously easy.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 14:31 |
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Mikemo Tyson posted:I'm an intermediate rider who has been riding for a few years on the road, I've always just renewed my permit once a year to avoid taking the MSF course because I never needed my endorsement. Now that I want to commute to work I need the endorsement so I can ride home at night, since the permit forbids me from riding after sunset. If you've been riding for a while and haven't developed many bad habits, you'll breeze through the test. Besides, commuting carries orders of magnitude more risk of damage to your bike than a basic skills test.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 16:24 |
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Oh quit being a baby and take the test already. If it makes you feel any better, there's always gonna be somebody that looks worse than you especially if you've been riding for a while.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 16:33 |
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Skreemer posted:Out in the wild hinterlands of Wisconsin they only have 3 schools that run anything other than the BRC. Mainly because there isn't enough people signing up for the class on a consistent basis. Though trying to be ahead of the curve those three sites do offer, the brc i and ii, ARC, the UBB "ultimate bike bonding" (police and gymkhana type maneuvers), and a trike course. (of course all of those schools are within an hour or two of Milwaukee.) Makes sense, no use in having empty classes. As an instructor, is there any leeway in letting someone just do part of the BRC1? Meaning my buddy walks in and says "hey, I'm a returning rider, all the returning rider classes are full or 200 miles away, any way I can just do the riding skills portions with you?" or is there just no way of that happening? Driving 90-120 minutes just to see if there is a walk in spot is silly, but something tells me it'll be pretty bureaucratic and he won't be able to do that. It's not too bad either way. I told him, worst case scenario is he just retakes the BRC and is bored for a while. With how they separate the class time vs. the riding time for the BRC vs. Returning Rider I'd be surprised if they can work something out but you never know.
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I've never ridden a motorcycle before but am interested in giving it a try and buying one. I don't have any freinds who have bikes (that will let me ride them at least. One has a Brand new Ducati and another a twin turbo Hyabusa). Would taking the MSF course before I buy a cheap bike be the way to go?
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| # ? May 22, 2013 22:53 |
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Yes.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:00 |
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Gonna go out on a limb and say you may not wanna ride with those people. Anyone with a turbo busa must be a tool, and as a Ducati owner  , when I ride my Ducati I want to ride like a tool.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 23:35 |
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nsaP posted:Makes sense, no use in having empty classes. As an instructor, is there any leeway in letting someone just do part of the BRC1? Meaning my buddy walks in and says "hey, I'm a returning rider, all the returning rider classes are full or 200 miles away, any way I can just do the riding skills portions with you?" or is there just no way of that happening? Driving 90-120 minutes just to see if there is a walk in spot is silly, but something tells me it'll be pretty bureaucratic and he won't be able to do that. Completely up to what the instructor can get away with. If he wants the card, and the waiver/insurance break that comes with the card, unfortunately he'll most likely have to sit through the whole thing. If he just wants to bone up to be able to take the state test and is chummy with an instructor, they may spend some spare time after a class or on a specified weekend to run through "remedial training". If an instructor allows your friend on a bike without sitting through the class and signing a waiver, that instructor is risking his permit to instruct. At my site if I get caught, I get booted from the program and not allowed to teach in the state anymore. All that said if you know a local instructor, there's nothing that says they can't take your buddy out to an empty parking lot, draw some chalk lines and run him through the course. (again he just wouldn't be able to get the card)
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| # ? May 23, 2013 01:37 |
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| # ? May 26, 2013 05:17 |
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He's already got his M class from the first time he took the MSF. He's doing this purely because he hasn't ridden since then. He's just going to try to walk into a regular BRC and tough out the boring bits I think.
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