Riding motorcycles can be a breath taking experience, but unfortunately in some cases it can also be a life-taking experience. The odds are in favor of the rider with more experience and knowledge of safety, than the reckless new motorcycle owner. Everyone has heard horror stories of friends or family members getting into horrific accidents on a motorcycle, which leads your mom to say she’ll kill you if you ever get one. However, this motorcycle safety course may just save your life, and have your mom saddling up on her own Harley!
A “Basic RiderCourse” is offered at a motorcycle safety school named Pioneer Valley Safety School in Westfield, Massachusetts for $275. This course gives you very practical training before you ride free on the road, and even has some money saving benefits when it comes to your MA Motorcycle Insurance policy (not to mention the discounts associated with combining this policy with your MA Auto Insurance and other Massachusetts Insurance policies). The course gives you five hours of classroom training and knowledge, and ten hours on a motorcycle in a “controlled” environment. The instructors will teach you how to turn, take sharp corners, make emergency stops, and gives you many safety tips. The course seems to be very reasonably priced, as the price reflected above includes a practice motorcycle and helmet (and you get your Motorcycle license at completion!). The instructors are called “RiderCoaches” and they will also illustrate how driving under the influence of either drugs or alcohol can impair your driving.
These are few sobering facts from Motorcycle-accidents.com: (2006)
- Virtually three-fourths of motorcycle accidents involve another vehicle, usually a passenger vehicle
- The average speed 0f a motorcycle before a crash is 29.8MPH, the average speed at the time of impact is 21.5MPH
- Out of all the riders that experienced motorcycle accidents in 2006, 96% of them were males
- Only 40% of the riders that were involved in accidents were wearing their safety helmet
- 73% of riders involved in accidents were not wearing the proper eye-protection, and in many cases it seems impaired vision was part of the cause of the accident
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