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Oklahoma Highway Patrol Riders School

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Yeeha! Stephen

Yeeha! Stephen

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BMWDFW traveled to Durant OK to participate in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's MC Rider course. Full day event in the Durant High School parking lot featured several exercises for our riders to use as skills improvement. I had grill duty and lunch break was Johnsonville beer brats, potato salad, fresh green salad and some delicious cookies. The weather was breezy but was otherwise cooperative !

And did I mention it was FREE!

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I've done the same thing with the Chandler AZ moto squad. I have a car tire on the back of the Wing so low speed, tight turns are not my forte, but I did learn a lot, especially in the panic braking training. The ABS on the Wing can really help to haul that big girl down to zero. My training was also free and I highly recommend it to anyone that has this available to them.

Your group is in stark contrast to mine which was mainly very noisy v-twins with riders wearing jeans and long sleeve plaid shirts, although everyone was required to be wearing a helmet.
 
I had grill duty so I did not participate but one of the exercises was (don't know the speed... maybe 20?) to get up to speed, hit the brakes when your front wheel passes a traffic cone and stop before the rear wheel passes the same cone. That one looked fun.
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Yeeha! Stephen said:
I had grill duty so I did not participate but one of the exercises was (don't know the speed... maybe 20?) to get up to speed, hit the brakes when your front wheel passes a traffic cone and stop before the rear wheel passes the same cone. That one looked fun.
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Just spitballing numbers here with a lot of rounding, but assuming a seven foot long bike, and 20mph being about 29 feet per second, that would mean the bikes are accelerating at around 2G. Not even MotoGP bikes hit that, I think averaging around 1.8Gs.

15mph comes out to just about 1G of acceleration, which I would take a pretty good bet on the the number the instructors want you to aim for.
 
How does the DE-cell figure out on that. We had the whole parking to get up to speed.
7 feet is a good guess. My BMW is just under.
So I guess we were attempting to stop in 7 to 8 feet.
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When I was living in SE Oklahoma, I took that class at the OSU campus in OKC. It was good. Free. Nice pix of the event in Durant!
 
There looks to be an age bias in the demographic. Where are the young guns in on their sportbikes? This kind of training keeps people alive.
 
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