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Riding Practice is Rain-or-Shine
The hands-on riding sessions proceed rain or shine. We hope for good weather, but it doesn't always work out. There are a couple of reasons why we proceed rain or shine.
 Once you are licensed, you will be riding your own motorcycle in any weather. You may choose not to set out in bad weather but sooner or later you will be caught by it. And, once you develop safe rain driving techniques, there will be no reason to let rain trap you indoors.
There is a course scheduled every weekend from spring until fall.
Trying to accommodate re-scheduled courses resulting from bad
weather on top of this course load would be impossible. We'd
have to reduce the number of courses we offer, and fewer of your
fellow riders would get the training they need. |
What's it Mean to Me?
Hope for good weather but be prepared for anything. Bring
sunscreen with you, but bring your rain suit too. Here's why
you shouldn't worry about rain.
 If it's raining right from the start, you will automatically develop appropriate rain habits. You'll be reacting to the amount of traction you get on wet pavement from your first time on the bike. Our graduated lesson system will ensure you don't get asked to practice skills beyond your ability.
If it starts raining during the course, we will pause for a
discussion of the kind of control changes you should expect.
Then we'll back off the level of difficulty of whatever we're
working on, and gradually ramp back up while you get used to
the feeling of wet pavement.
If it rains during the skills test,
we have a separate set of
test standards we use on wet pavement. For example, the
distances in which you're expected to stop for the braking
test are increased. |
Exceptions
If the weather actually becomes dangerous, we will wait it
out or reschedule if necessary.
We have encountered lightening, rain so hard we couldn't see
each other, and snow, on course weekends. However, such
circumstances are rare, and you can be pretty sure your
course will proceed rain or shine.
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