BakerBoy
It's all small stuff.
We're Impaired 
Today was a snowy day, so I set aside the time to take an online refresher eCourse through the MSF website. I chose the Street Strategies course here. It was $19.99 and took just under 4 hours. It was a good refresher of fundamentals, with many video clips and graphical examples covering many topics. While it seemed the majority of the clips and pictures showed naked sportbikes, most brands and types of bikes were used in the examples.
I'd recommend the course for the relative ease, low cost, good overall content, and general refresher value. But that's not why I made this post.
Two uses of specific bike models in the examples were memorable to me:
1) At one point in the training, as it was covering the unusual demands on both the rider and the motorcycle for touring (as if it was a real stretch for both!), they used a FJR. Good for Yammie to get that awareness (even if accidental).
2) And somewhat humorous... When the training addressed various types of impairments (alcohol, drugs, emotional state, tiredness, etc.), they included age. Further, they used images of a graying gentleman wearing his Aerostitch 1-piece, putting on his helmet and riding away on his ST1300! An old man's bike! That was the sole use of a ST1300 in the 4 hours of training. And they used a 55 to 60 year old man to show age impairment. (Of course I understood the point regardless of how old the man was and what bike he rode).
But it actually gave me a chuckle.
Edit ... LOL, mis-spelled thread title!
Today was a snowy day, so I set aside the time to take an online refresher eCourse through the MSF website. I chose the Street Strategies course here. It was $19.99 and took just under 4 hours. It was a good refresher of fundamentals, with many video clips and graphical examples covering many topics. While it seemed the majority of the clips and pictures showed naked sportbikes, most brands and types of bikes were used in the examples.
I'd recommend the course for the relative ease, low cost, good overall content, and general refresher value. But that's not why I made this post.
Two uses of specific bike models in the examples were memorable to me:
1) At one point in the training, as it was covering the unusual demands on both the rider and the motorcycle for touring (as if it was a real stretch for both!), they used a FJR. Good for Yammie to get that awareness (even if accidental).
2) And somewhat humorous... When the training addressed various types of impairments (alcohol, drugs, emotional state, tiredness, etc.), they included age. Further, they used images of a graying gentleman wearing his Aerostitch 1-piece, putting on his helmet and riding away on his ST1300! An old man's bike! That was the sole use of a ST1300 in the 4 hours of training. And they used a 55 to 60 year old man to show age impairment. (Of course I understood the point regardless of how old the man was and what bike he rode).
But it actually gave me a chuckle.
Edit ... LOL, mis-spelled thread title!
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D@mn kids in those fireman suits on those motorsickles!
