Guitarist Maddox Kennerson is a 16-year-old of many talents. Not only is he in three bands while attending school full-time, he’s been cast in “Shop Class” on Disney+, he’s featured in numerous commercials, and he has many hobbies, including dirt bike riding. Maddox says his mom was “super nervous about me riding at first,” but…
Jerry Foster-Julian, now 80, recently hung up her RiderCoach hat, but she hasn’t hung up her helmet yet. The former middle school teacher, who started riding in the 1960s and has traveled the world by motorcycle, served as a RiderCoach for more than 20 years. While you won’t see her on the range anymore, you might catch her on the road on her Vespa.
Friends Jaime Gabaldoni and Lazaro Amaro had big plans for a long-distance motorcycle ride. Not only did they want to ride from Miami to Sturgis for the huge motorcycle rally, Laz had plans to reconnect with his brother, whom he hadn’t seen in nearly 30 years, and Jaime wanted to stop in Kansas to visit…
What our parents thought would be a fun weekend hobby quickly turned into racing motocross around the southeast together, and an obsession with the sport and motorcycles that would carry into adulthood.
Life was wall-to-wall stressful for filmmaker Pamela Romanowsky, a self-described “crazy little rogue artist.” Cue: Motorcycles. She put one in her film, but found that it was exactly what she needed in her life. Motorcycling opened up a whole new world for her, helped her find serenity (with a shot of adrenaline), and brought her…
By Joyce Louis-JeanFilm producer and social media personality Life is all about new experiences and conquering new challenges. After a rough couple of years through the pandemic, I wanted to try something new. I don’t think of myself as athletic, so DirtBike School was something completely different for me. I was a little worried, but…
In honor of MSF turning 50 this year, here is my story on how I started riding. When I signed up for the MSF Basic RiderCourse in November 2015, my plan was to have a fun weekend and then move on to the next fun thing. I was not planning on getting my own bike.…
Actor Ian Ziering used MSF DirtBike School training to unleash an ADVnado of riding fun in Alaska. A longtime motorcycle enthusiast, Ziering, producer and star in the popular Sharknado film series, expanded his riding skills through the MSF’s DirtBike School. He credits training for preparing him for the ride of a lifetime. See highlights from…
I entered the world of motorcycling as the unwitting victim of what, in retrospect, was a kind of scam. Decades ago, in the fourth-floor hallway of Copley Hall, my dorm at Georgetown University, a casual friend a couple years ahead of me was graduating and needed to unload his Honda Passport (aka Super Cub). Easily…
I can be stingy. (Economical, my friends would say.) I also like to try to make everything I do fun, including my dull 20-mile commute to work at the newspaper. The solution I came up with: I’m gonna get a motorcycle! I can save fuel and have an exhilarating commute. (Who ever thought those two…