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This past Friday we had a "Motorcycle Safety Day" on post between the Army and Air Force. The services are really trying everything to keep Soldiers and Airmen safe out on their bikes. This was supposedly the first time ever for the Army and Air Force to do one of these together. We ended up having about 30 bikes out there. Mostly Harley's but nobody gave anyone a hard time about what they were riding. It was a day of learning from each other, talking safety, and how to check out and maintain your bike in a safe condition.
They had a couple of MSF Course instructors come out and set up the course for us to run through. Not as a test, but as a refresher of our skills for those of us that it's been a while since you went through the course. For me, it's been since 1993!!
I had a couple of soldiers from my unit out there that didn't know the old man could ride. 
I ended up teaching them a few tricks, and I noticed they listen to me a little more after watching me ride.
After the classes and refresher riding, we all went on a group ride about an hour away and stopped at a dealership where they had drinks and snacks waiting for us. We broke up into two groups. The harleys all went together, and all the sportbikes went in a group. Since I was the highest rank of the sportbike riders, I took the lead of the group for the ride. All in all a great way to spend a workday!! It was a nice sunny day, I was in civilian clothes (although I was in my leathers), and I was on my bike. Add to that there were no accidents and it was just a good day of riding.
Here are some pictures that were taken while we were riding on the MSF Course taken by the post newspaper. Guess I'll be in the next edition!
In this picture I'm starting out on the offset weave.
Here I am deeper into it. The guy on the R1 waiting to go kept asking me how I made the cones look so easy. I told him to let me get on his bike and show him how easy they can be. He declined. 
The guy on the flag painted bike is one of my soldiers.
And here we are doing the "panic stop" drill.
Didn't get any pictures of it, but we also had to do the figure 8 and object avoidance drill. Again, the guy on the R1 asked me how I was doing the figure 8 so easily. Some people just get more bike than they can ride.
They had a couple of MSF Course instructors come out and set up the course for us to run through. Not as a test, but as a refresher of our skills for those of us that it's been a while since you went through the course. For me, it's been since 1993!!
I had a couple of soldiers from my unit out there that didn't know the old man could ride. I ended up teaching them a few tricks, and I noticed they listen to me a little more after watching me ride. After the classes and refresher riding, we all went on a group ride about an hour away and stopped at a dealership where they had drinks and snacks waiting for us. We broke up into two groups. The harleys all went together, and all the sportbikes went in a group. Since I was the highest rank of the sportbike riders, I took the lead of the group for the ride. All in all a great way to spend a workday!! It was a nice sunny day, I was in civilian clothes (although I was in my leathers), and I was on my bike. Add to that there were no accidents and it was just a good day of riding.
Here are some pictures that were taken while we were riding on the MSF Course taken by the post newspaper. Guess I'll be in the next edition!
In this picture I'm starting out on the offset weave.
Here I am deeper into it. The guy on the R1 waiting to go kept asking me how I made the cones look so easy.
I told him to let me get on his bike and show him how easy they can be. He declined. The guy on the flag painted bike is one of my soldiers.And here we are doing the "panic stop" drill.
Didn't get any pictures of it, but we also had to do the figure 8 and object avoidance drill. Again, the guy on the R1 asked me how I was doing the figure 8 so easily.
Some people just get more bike than they can ride.
. "It's called practice , beeches" . 
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