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From: dir@obo586.UUCP (Dan Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: request for guidance in purchasing a first bike
Message-ID: <114@obo586.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 19:02:56 EST
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Organization: obo Systems Inc., Aurora, Colorado
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{for the line-eater?}

A good way, my wife and I found, to learn everything you (n)ever
wanted to know about motorcycle riding and saftey was to take the
"Motorcycle Rider Course" as given by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation.
I'm sure its changed since we took it, but it consisted of 8 hours
classroom and 16 hours on-bike instruction with the bikes and helmets
supplied by the instructor.  The bikes were 75 to 175cc enduro-types.
By the end of the course, they had us doing quick-stops, emergency
avoidance, and riding over railroad ties (4x4).  We also found that
as a result of taking the course, we only had to take the written
test and not the practical when getting the MC validation on our
licenses.  I strongly recommend the course (and am not connected to
it in any way).  Their address is:
	Motorcycle Safety Foundation
	780 Elkridge Landing Road
	Linthicum, Maryland  21090
By the way, I'm currently riding an 82 Kawasaki 750
Spectre and have never had an accident or a ticket.


Dan Rosenblatt
obo Systems, Inc.
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