freq

Motorcycle License/Refresher- If you don't have your motorcycle license yet, or you'd like a refresher, the MSF (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) course(s) are a must-do: https://www.msf-usa.org/. In my opinion it's the only way to learn, and it will make you pretty safe and able on the street right out of the gate, rather than enduring approx. 2 months of panic every time you ride when you start out. It's how I got my license. I did the course for free and it allowed me to skip the road test portion of my NJ license test. They even gave you a bike to ride (and potentially drop, worry-free) to use for the course.


Tim,

Ignore everything else in the post above. Take the MSF course ASAP.

This is how I got my license back in '86 and how Tammy got hers as well. It's REALLY good stuff and you WILL learn stuff that could save your life.

freq

Drool inducing.

CJ2006

Lol!

MSF course definitely = "REALLY good stuff and you WILL learn stuff that could save your life!"



Hey freq, in your class, did you guys ride over a 4x4 piece of wood to show how to go over obstructions you couldn't avoid? Blew my mind when we did that!

freq

Yes we did ride over 4x4s.

I did the course twice. Once back in '86 (ish) and again with the wife for moral support in "07 (ish)

CJ2006

Commencing drool...

Loving that cafe/scrambler seat and the semi-knobbies! It's like a cafe scrambler. Looks cool on that parallel twin.

There are soooo many cafe conversions on CL right now.

This one is wild, I've never seen one taken so far or have so much time/money invested into it: https://southjersey.craigslist.org/mcy/5808615789.html

Probably not the direction I would go personally, but if only half of what he says and shows is accurate, that was quite a time/money investment to build!

CJ2006

Cool. My dad was a re-entry rider when I started riding (He rode from the 60's to the early 80's, then stopped.), and he took it with me as a refresher/for support. He learned a ton too. I did it in 2000. Did you do yours in Sea Girt on little GN125s?

freq

I'm in Eastern PA, my first course was held at Lehigh County Comm College. The second time was at Blackmans Cycle in Emmaus. It was always on their machines, little 125.

CJ2006

I'm in Eastern PA, my first course was held at Lehigh County Comm College. The second time was at Blackmans Cycle in Emmaus. It was always on their machines, little 125.
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Cool. I'm in South Jersey, so Sea Girt was a distance to go for us. One of those little 125s shot me across the practice lot when I accidentally popped the clutch early on the first day on the bike. Everyone laughed, once I got it stopped and pushed it back, and I did too, but I wasn't laughing while I was rocketing across that patch of pavement at, oh, say a blistering 15 mph, max, lol. I was already a very experienced stick shift car driver. Bikes are so different. That day, I learned that they're all fast enough to scare you given the proper conditions. A tiny, slow bike on a narrow mountain trail can be a lot scarier than a literbike on a wide straight road, that's for sure.

They have a really good teaching style and curriculum- starting from the very basic building blocks and incrementally building from there. Good stuff!