Stories

Motorcycling can be gritty and sometimes uncomfortable, but we love it because we are all motorcycle addicts!

Autumn Holley and Eric Trama met through an MSF Basic RiderCourse. Autumn was taking the licensing class with a friend, and Eric happened to be one of the coaches. But things didn’t happen right away.

My pedal bicycle had just been stolen from where I’d locked it while I was hanging out at a dive bar called the Zeitgeist, where Motorhead was in heavy rotation on the jukebox and MotoGP played Sundays on the TV, so maybe it was meant to be.

We eat, sleep, dream, talk, ride, live, and love motorcycles. I’m paraphrasing an old sticker that sums up my love of bikes.

By Eva Rupert Event planner, writer, adventure-seeker, and MSF DirtBike School Coach I took my first motorcycle camping trip in New

From a very early age, I was always fascinated by anything with wheels, mostly cars. But as I approached my middle teens, I learned that a motorcycle was not only fun, but could be ridden legally at age 15 with a learner’s permit.

Quinton Washington, a videographer and producer based in Los Angeles, found that motorcycling has given him another outlet in which to be creative.

At some point, I think every rider is asked by someone how they got into riding. My answer lives somewhere between wanting to be a fighter jet pilot and being awestruck by the absolute coolness of the “motorcycles” in the movie “Tron.”

Half your car friends end up being bike nuts. The other half think the whole idea is nuts. 

I first became aware of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation in late 1989 – not by choice, but by order.

Whatever I am doing next, whether it’s continuing my career in the military or retiring in a few years and moving on to other things, I know my life will always include a motorcycle.

She turned and smiled a smile I will never forget as her body and mind connected to perform the act of balancing on two wheels. That was magic, that was her point of discovery.

The Motorcycle Safety Foundation is celebrating 50 years of rider education and training, which really means celebrating 50 years of RiderCoaches, DirtBike School Coaches, site administrators, program managers — everyone in our training community — who have helped millions of people realize their dreams of two- and three-wheeling.

When Miles was in second grade, his dad saw that the Motorcycle Safety Foundation offered DirtBike School for anyone ages 6 years and up. He signed Miles up so that he could try something new, and Miles was instantly hooked.

Richard King joined the Marine Corps in the 1970s and became an infantry scout/sniper for a Surveillance and Target Acquisitions unit. He soon found that his love of motorcycling was of use to Uncle Sam, and he was chosen to take the Combat Motorcycle course to become a scout/messenger, which he did during Desert Storm.