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Join Date: Feb 2024
Location: SW Missouri
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Springfield, Missouri Share the Road training day
Springfield Police put on a free, one day, motorcycle skills training course.
Attended today with my Dad who's in his 70's. Talk about a humbling experience! Lots of low speed clutch/brake work, tight turns etc. Well worth looking into if your local police motor units offer anything like this. https://www.springfieldmo.gov/5289/S...orcycle-Course ![]() ![]()
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Elburn, IL
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It's good that they do that. My experience with the one day MSF Advanced Rider Course was an eye opener on my own bad habits. The Basic and Basic 2 courses didn't exist when I got my license (mumblemumble) years ago.
Here in Illannoy, IDOT(one letter short of idiot)had a change in leadership that gutted the $25 MSF program. SIU, Southern Illannoy University, took over the program and has just about killed it off through ineptitude and a 'my or the highway' attitude towards the instructors and students. Many of the instructors have taken the highway and waved bye bye. The students are stuck with just a couple of class sites in southern Illannoy. That leaves the good but $350 courses offered through HD in the north and central parts of the state.
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Join Date: Aug 2024
Location: Gainesville, Florida, USA
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I lived in and around Springfield for years (grew up in Lebanon, 50 miles northeast of there). I didn't ride at the time, but just thinking about those Ozarks twisties has me wanting to pay a visit once I'm on something fit for long trips.
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