Over the weekend I took the MSF Basic Riders Course / Riders Edge course. (Riders Edge is just a Harley branded version of the MSF course…).

Passed. Book work was nothing. First riding day was a bit boring and simplistic. It’s designed for folks with absolutely no riding experience at all.

But second day got a little bit more interesting, with focus on slow speed handling and what not. Even managed to
scrape the pegs on an exercise.

Spent most of the last two days riding a Buell Blast around the Walnut Creek vip parking lot. Those bikes are very light, and somewhat underpowered (360 pounds and a 500cc 35 hp engine ) with a very “lumpy” engine. When I rode my bike to work this morning, the 800cc twin seems silky smooth and incrediably torquey in comparison.

Overall, the course wasnt bad. There was way too much Harley/Buell marketing in it, but aside from that was pretty enjoyable.