Mandatory motorcycle courses
Motorcycle SafetyDiscuss Mandatory motorcycle courses in the Other Topics forums; Effective today in FL., a mandatory state motorcycle course is required to get an endorsement for your license. You used to be able to take a course like MSF or ...
Effective today in FL., a mandatory state motorcycle course is required to get an endorsement for your license. You used to be able to take a course like MSF or the like and just take the certificate to the DMV, not no mo!! The article in the paper said the course was about $200, not bad, I paid $285 3 years ago and and glad I took it, not only to get re-aquainted on two wheels but I did learn some things . Ride safe and have a safe holiday weekend with all the explosives!!!!
This is a sore point for me where my passions run high and my words tend to be strong. If a course is to be mandatory it must be more meaningful.
The MSF instructors deserve great credit for what they do out there on the course. If it were not for them I would not be on two wheels. I respect them in the utmost. That being said, from my perspective there are deficiencies in the course that must be addressed.
Here a just two:
In light of the fact that crashes due to the fault of the rider are often caused by lack of skill, the course is simply too short. It should be a series of meetings where the individual skills of the course are introduced, drilled with the group, practiced by the individual riders and then tested.
Real traffic challenges are encountered by the learner permit carrying rider before they take the licensure test, but not in the MSF course. Considering how many riders are killed or maimed by automobile drivers it makes no sense that the course does not include mock and real traffic challenges.
It is time these courses become sum totally about the rider. If riders whine, they should consider the consequences of most crashes and get on with the business of saving themselves from themselves.
Okay. Roe Vs Wade is a topic I would not like to see on a motorcycle forum. Way too many folks get into nasty arguments about it.
It's not the first time it's been on this forum, hope it's the last. No argument here, I was just agreeing with frisco-rigid.
JC
You're the boss man, you set the rules and I will obey. I don't want to ruffle any feathers, I'm a team player. Probably should ban the jokes especially the ones with off color content (smut) or politics. Especially politics, to much controversy.
I did not mean, even for a Nano-second, to bring Roe V. Wade into the discussion as an actual topic,, No way..
I am an Adament advocate of Choice about virtually everything and I only meant to use "R v W" as an example of how seldom I hear the advocacy of choice anymore (in the media for instance) except for that..
__________________ "Fill your hands you son of a bitch"
Rooster Cogburn
Frisco- I understand you were using it as an example. I saw Upnorth and seen both sides being represented. I figured I would suggest moving away from that topic before others chimed in. I seen otherwise normal folks go off the deepend on the subject.
Mandatory motorcycle courses 
Me too, also 
Linear Mode
