Motology

This past weekend I had the pleasure of spending two afternoons with the crew from Motology, who graciously put on a free clinic for riders wishing to tune up their skills before the riding season gets seriously underway. Although I was there to offer my own knowledge to those who wanted to learn more about information, there were chances to get the bike on the training course and try and few moves of my own. I consider myself fairly experienced and a decent rider, but know full and well that, even at 60 years of age, there's still a lot to learn and skills can be improved. In my former career as a crane operator, company policy required us to take refresher training and driver improvement courses, to keep up with changes in the industry and combat one of the worst enemies of experienced personnel, complacency.

Complacency creeps in to many facets of a person's life. People take for granted their spouses, their jobs and, in regard to this discussion, their abilities on a motorcycle. The same attitude with a too many motorcyclists is the "I've been riding for years don't need lessons" mentality that can often result in a lackadaisical approach to riding and we know how that can end up.
After rolling my bike around the lot I can certainly say that there's a bit of room for improvement. My thinking is along the lines of  "if better' is possible, is 'good' good enough?" With the poor skills of so many drivers on the roads these days, and a few motorcyclists too, who doesn't want to have every available tool possible to help them have a safe and enjoyable ride? Thank you Motology for giving me, and so many others, the opportunity to brush up on a few things and improve the skill set. And, it was great hanging out and talking about so much stuff, including bikes and rides.

Motology School

l-r, Rebecca, James, Chris and Elle are 4 of the 6 excellent instructors who share their knowledge and skills

Motology runs their courses by the WestJet Building by the airport

Would you expect to not find at least one school bike with a scrape somewhere, or a signal light cracked from a drop! haha

The crew at Motology gave the free 'tune up' rides in trade for a donation to The Magic Of Christmas

Elle shared her skills on the adventure bikes, including some side saddle through the circles.

It was chilly and wet so the heater in the trailer was a nice bit of relief

BlueCircle shared the two days with the great crew at Motology

Rebecca bundled up and threw on the wetskins before her ride

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