No Rider Course for me

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On Mon­day I opened my mail to find a let­ter from the com­pa­ny that I signed up with for the motor­cy­cle Rid­er Course. Appar­ent­ly they’re going out of busi­ness and will not be offer­ing the class­es that they have already sched­uled. The let­ter said that they will not be offer­ing refunds, but that what­ev­er com­pa­ny gets the con­tract to run the course will pro­vide the course for all the stu­dents that have already reg­is­tered. But at this time there’s no news as to who that com­pa­ny will be.

So I’m not going to be get­ting my motor­cy­cle license any­time in the imme­di­ate future. Who knows when the next Rid­er Course will be offered? And who knows how accom­mo­dat­ing they will be sched­ule­wise? I had to wait close to four months to get into the course; they’d bet­ter hold open slots for those that had already sched­uled a class. If I have to call every week for the next four months to get into a course I’ve already paid for, I won’t be a hap­py camper.

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6 Replies to “No Rider Course for me”

  2. I don’t know any of the
    I don’t know any of the details, but here:

    http://www.motorcycleschool.com/

    Bay Area Motor­cy­cle Train­ing is no longer able to con­duct courses.
    All Jan­u­ary cours­es will be delayed.

    If you are enrolled for a course in January,
    you will be receiv­ing a let­ter with fur­ther information.

    No new eroll­ments are being accepted.

    We regret the incon­ve­niences this may cause, but it is unavoidable.

  3. I don’t know what the state
    I don’t know what the state uni­ver­si­ty sys­tem is like in SF, but here in New Haven, Gate­way Comm Col­lege offers sev­er­al cours­es direct­ed by the CTDOT. 

    They run a cou­ple hun­dred dol­lars each, and con­sist of a lit­tle class­room talk, fol­lowed by rid­ing time on train­ing bikes (100 — 350CC or so).

  4. Cal­i­for­nia gives the course
    Cal­i­for­nia gives the course con­tract to sev­er­al small region­al com­pa­nies. Only the cours­es autho­rized by the DMV can hand out the cer­tifi­cate that is the equiv­a­lent of the road test at the DMV. Not only does the Rid­er Course teach the stu­dent how to dri­ve, it serves as the DMV road test, so that a license appli­cant need only take the writ­ten test and present the Rid­er Course cer­tifi­cate. The com­pa­ny that han­dles SF is “reor­ga­niz­ing”.

    I paid my cou­ple hun­dred dol­lars, and hope­ful­ly some­time I’ll be able to get my class­room time and rid­ing time on train­ing bikes.

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