Whats the best you have taken home from a MSF course?

[FZ6biker]

I took my MSF course last year just to get a refresher. The one best thing I learnt was how to use counter steering effectively. And if theres another I would pick learning better braking techniques.

Please list any of your favorites.

Also please state if you did the Basic or Advanced or both.

 

[sfcali86]

how to brake properly and how to aproach hard turns

 

[champion221elite]

Head position... look where you want the bike to go.

 

[FZ6biker]

Head position... look where you want the bike to go.

I picked on that too :thumbup:

 

[C_H_A]

Look where you want to go.

 

[dako81]

Looking through turns better.

 

[codeblue]

I took the basic MSF course back in 2007:
1. I like the braking/swerving course (especially when we did shortly after a major thunderstorm).
2. Figure 8 turning in the tight box.
3. Proper head positioning while turning.
4. Just to hear my drill sargeant yell the words "Turn Your Freaking Head" again. He's a marshall at the Middlesex County Courthouse, saw him there when I did jury duty and was surprised to hear me utter those words back at him, LOL.

 

[Portmore78]

Looking where you want to go. I think this is the best advice EVER! Anytime I'm on an on ramp or off ramp and if I don't look where I want to go the turning sucks, but if I do i feel like a pro with a smooth turn.

And also braking, always use both brakes, unless in certain slow moving situations.

 

[jazzpaintball]

I havent taken a MSF course. I know I know :spank:

 

[Lightndattic]

I just finished it this last weekend. Looking where you're going and 3 steps on takeoff were the things I remember most. Every time moving forward from a stop, we had to take 3 steps before pulling up our feet. We've get tapped on our helmet every time we didn't do it.

I was stuck behind this one lady who absolutely DID NOT want to go fast enough to get into second. The one exercise where you shift up into 3rd and then back to 2nd, then back to third, etc., was a disaster. They put her last in the group, but after 2 laps around, the whole group was bunched up behind her and stalling bikes because we were not going fast enough for 3rd gear.

Got a 100% on the written and 2 points off the riding for going too fast through the 135 degree turn. I braked, looked and followed the outside-inside-outside path and was within the cones, but they said I did it too fast. I also came back the night after the first day and did the box on my bike. After that, doing it on the 250 was a breeze.

 

[necrotimus]

My 'M' designation.

 

[interactive3]

I took the experienced rider course last weekend, about a year after taking the basic class and buying my first bike.

Refreshers:
• Look through the turns - where you want to go.
• The braking extercises are excellent. It's tough for me to keep from locking the back wheel in panic situations.
• Swerving - accident avoidance - nice to know it's easier than I remembered.
• Low speed maneuvers.


New stuff:
• If you come in to a turn too hot and are drifting out - PUSH HARDER on the inside grip.
• We did an exercise with three different radius turns. This helped with juding speed going into and through the turns.
• Accelerating raises the rear suspension (as well as the front)
• The "course" - a narrow autocross like motorcycle course - was a blast to ride through. This allows using a variety of skills in quick succession.

 

[Roadstergal]

I braked, looked and followed the outside-inside-outside path and was within the cones, but they said I did it too fast.

Odd, you shouldn't get points off for doing it too fast.

 

[cbzdel]

Accelerating raises the rear suspension (as well as the front)

strange, I dont see how that happens :don'tknow:

 

[Hellgate]

The torque of the motor through the chain will "lift" the bike. Chop the throttle in a corner and it will squat. Shaft bikes are the worst at this.

 

[Lightndattic]

Odd, you shouldn't get points off for doing it too fast.

You could have flown a jet into my open mouth when he said it.

 

[VEGASRIDER]

Are you sure you about fast? I think they meant too slow. No penalty for going too fast unless you crossed the boundary or slowed down during the turn.

 

[Nefilim]

I was marked for going too fast as well. What's with FZ6 pilots and "too fast" penalties?

 

[cbzdel]

I will tell you next weekend, I take my class the 10th to the 12th..

 

[blchandl2]

Per the MSF skills test, the timed corner is 0 points for a time < 2.91 sec. I just tought a class this weekend.