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No, here its a big ordeal. its like they are trying to discurage you from riding. you gotta take a two day coarse costing $200.oo. So a lot of riders down here aren't riding with an indorsement
Bad move, unless they've been riding for years and have seen it all...like me. And, maybe even if I had taken some kind of riding course back when I was 15 1/2(in 1967) and first received my California "Learner's Permit"(the test basically consisted of little more than showing some guy at the DMV that I could ride my little Honda in a figure-8 pattern without putting my foot down, and which allowed me to ride a motorcycle solo after I received the permit) then maybe I wouldn't have had my first accident at 16 on that little Honda.
I mean, if your wife or teenage kid wanted to start riding, wouldn't YOU advise them to take a course run by expertly trained and experienced riders with a knowledge of how to train others???
(...just makes sense to me, anyway!!!)
I am just stating facts. The rule is the problem though. most people would go sit in a class for a few hours and watch a movie or bring there bike up and ride an obstacle coarse or something and pay $50-$60 bucks. When you ask for 2 days and $200.oo most people just skip it. Its just a fact. I run into more people here in Texas without an endorsment than I did in other states with less draconian rules. Arkansas you go one day and take a written test about safety to make sure you understand what you are getting into. Then on another day you ride up to the DPS and the officer inspects the bike and gives you your endorsement. I never met a rider there who doesn't have their endorsment.
I taught my son to ride but when my wife gets ready she will take the coarse because I can't teach her.(personality)
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