Advanced Rider Course

This course is open to all types of motorcycles. Riders will enhance skills to improve cornering, swerving, and braking techniques, as well as develop additional expertise in the areas of risk management, decision-making, riding strategies, and rider behavior. Riders are required to use their own bike, and must have proof of ownership and current registration, proof of insurance, and must have a current license with a motorcycle endorsement.

The Advanced Rider Course is for experienced motorcyclists who want to enhance their skills and get the most out of their ride. Using techniques developed by sportbike riders on and off the track, riders learn how to maximize their turning abilities, how to stop as well as their machines can manage, and how to swerve around that large object.

Although this course is based on techniques developed by the sport riding and racing community, the techniques and enhanced skill development will help riders improve their skills no matter what type of motorcycle they ride.

In the classroom, you with start with a self-evaluation, which you will have an opportunity to revisit after your range activities. The course moves into Cornering, then Braking, followed by Swerving, Safety & Risk, Perception, Rider Behavior and Risk Offset modules.

On the range, we start with a warm-up Basic Control exercise. We then move into Quick Stops, including a stop and evade component. Next is a stopping demonstration to show the effect of reaction time on your total stopping distance. Curve Adjustments, which includes a "swerving in a curve" activity and an opportunity to experience the effects of slowing in a curve (trail braking), also acts to begin using your body as a cornering tool. The Cornering and Swerving  exercise further refines the use of the upper body to turning and allows the student to experience the difference between the body positions used for cornering and the upright position needed for effective swerving. Multiple Curves lets you put together what's been learned, and moves right into Decreasing Radius Curves, allowing practice in decreasing radius situations as well as additional practice with quick stops. Finally, to re-orient the riders to the traffic mix and to identify safety margins, we end the range with Gap Analysis and Safety Margins.

The introductory price for this course is $175.

Join us for an entire day of training. Learn to stop dragging parts in the turns. Stop like a pro. Get the most out of your bike, while improving your ability to deal with hazards.