Geezer with a Grudge: Training for Actual Motorcycling

Nov 4, 2017

Training for Actual Motorcycling

David Hough recently posted an excellent article about the purpose of motorcycle training, “Situational Awareness.” I strongly recommend reading the article and the concepts he’s presenting.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Wow, that is good.

When I was a youngster my dad used to tell me "there is no such thing as an accident". Having been in multiple accidents (all cars), a few of which where I was a passenger, I vehemently disagreed with him. He held firm.

It wasn't until I after started riding and got a few years experience that I realized how right he was.

Ever since I was teaching the MSF course I've always told beginners that if you crash, it's your fault.

Trying to impress on people that safe motorcycling is more a mental than physical skill is tough.; 11/5/17, 10:15 AM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.