Group riding

My dad needs to watch this.

Thanks Marc. I just put it on my clubs FB page.

And I thought I was the only one who spelled Marc with a c...Not all that common...

My mom loved Charlie better.

Yup...You never stop learning...Too many know-it-alls out there...I take the advanced MSF course every few years...

Of course

Yep their effin experts!

If'n I got to be all Proper and all to ride in a group.
Don't look like I will make it.
Been riding too long to get all proper
I know how to ride and where my space is.

I rode in the 70's with a biker club and there were at least 40 bikes running speeds to 90 miles an hour.
Nobody ever complained about how I rode.
I was told if you screw Up the guys behind you are gonna run over you and they will go down.
And if the guys in front of you screws up, you will run over them
And we don't want an accordion .

I have to ride with people I know and know they ain't gonna run over me.


I've had somebody to go down in front of me running 75mph. I managed to go to the right hand side of them and git off the road and turn my emergency flashers on at the same time to warn traffic behind me.
I was scared a cager might run over them.
A helicopter had to come and fly one of the riders to a Hospital.

Nope !

Don't care to get out and ride cones or ride like a Pro.
Put my OL threw a class years ago.
Talked to 3 instructors who taught riding classes and advanced riding.
They all said if I have been riding since 1964 and still here
They wouldn't want to change nothing.
Never said I was a pro.
Don't care how a pro rides
I ride my ride .
not looking for any badges or reward s
Just like to ride.
Not interested non nothing but bring retired.

Seems like everybody seems everybody needs classes for everything now days.
I grew up in the country.
We learn by doing things.
seems like you learn more common sense.
People in the city learn by taking classes on everything.

True but the more exposure to others experience the better. The MSF course is a very good thing. Not everybody is from the country.

Put the OL threw the Riders Edge Class at a Harley dealership.
she said they was so hard they tried to get everybody to quit.
3 guys dropped their bikes. One busted his chin on the blacktop.

Sounds like rider participation was weak. Not everyone should ride a motorcycle. 3 guys dropped their bike is the 3 riders fault. Better to drop the bike and fail MSF then to be passed thru and experience catastrophic failure in real life for obvious reasons.

I hear what your trying to say but its like trying to blame a referee for a loss. If you're good enough you will rise above the obstacles and hurdles, no matter what is thrown in front of you.

OL said 3 rich city slickers went down and bought Harleys and had them delivered to their house. And non of them had a motorcycle license, or had ever ridden a motorcycle. That was the 3 that dropped them.
They had them riding over like 2x6's and stopping, And making turns and all kinds of stuff.
This class was like wed -friday nite in a class room
And saturday and sunday with the bikes.
It was in the winter. It was like 30* outside.
1st day with the bikes they pushed them and shifted gears standing on the side of them and use the clutch for over an hour to show them what to do.
She said it was a Hard Class.
OL was glad I had bought her a FXRG jacket, gloves and a FF helmet..

Couple girls got to crying she said the instructor was so hard on them.


I had bought her a 500cc Buell months before. Showed her how to ride it.
She had been riding in the neighborhood. So she had a heads up.

Lots of folks with more dollars than sense(cents) out there today.

HD has not always been a popular status symbol as it is today. I remember back in the day only cops or robbers had an HD and everyone else was following the leader...he was on a Honda,lol. And the average person had nothing good to say about an HD motorcycle. And know every asshat and his brother has or wants to own a Harley. Can't blame them for being a little slow on the uptake. And it has been good for buisiness but it has diluted the quality brotherhood that really isn't and predominant as it once was. Peple throw the word broither around because t sounds cool. They buyt a HD and put on the Biker holloween costume.

I work with a toolbag that had a suzuki when I started working here back in 1989 and had nothing good to say about an HD. Of course today he rides a HD and to hear him tell it he was born riding a HD..what an a**hole.