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Tribe Talk Happy Hour – 18 May 2022

How and why we do things is often a theme in understanding what is essential. Tribe Talk’s Happy Hour this week will explore why always going back to the basics is a solid strategy.

Relate the following questions to being a RiderCoach and a student:

1. Why do the basics carry so much value?

2. How does spending time on the basics help students?

3. What basics do RiderCoaches need to focus on to help students?

4. Do RiderCoaches concentrate too much on higher-level training?

5. What basics must RiderCoaches focus on to be better Coaches?

Watch this video and bring some thoughts: https://youtu.be/VWDRzdyWGx4 …

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RiderChoices – Rider Tips #83

Awareness and prediction are a Rider’s responsibility when entering a dangerous area. Intersections are an area of traffic conflict and deserve your full attention. …

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Tribe Talk Happy Hour – 11 May 2022 7:00-9:00 pm Eastern

How and why we do things is often a theme to understanding what is important. Tribe Talk Happy Hour this week will explore exposure in novice motorcyclist training. Relate the following questions to being a RiderCoach and a student:

1. Is the quantity of training the BRC provides enough?
2. Do we fully prepare RiderCoaches for helping students?
3. What content is missing from novice motorcyclist training?
4. What content is missing from RiderCoach Training?
5. Are minimal requirements meeting our minimum needs? …

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Rider Choices – Rider Tips #82

When other road users are near, physically look to maintain the appropriate safety margin. Always keep an escape path available using the Search Evaluate Execute (SEE) strategy. …

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y we do things is often a theme to understand what the future brings. Tribe Talk Happy Hour this week will explore what we believe the future will bring. Relate the following questions to being a RiderCoach in the future:

1. What do you foresee as the future?

2. How will RiderCoaches need to change?

3, What will stay the same?

4. How do we evolve to meet future needs?

5. Is there a place for Rider Education in the future? …

Continue readingTribe Talk Happy Hour – 4 May 2022

As we enter Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month of May, I am seeing the typical Safety Month messages like “Watch for Motorcycles,” “See Motorcycles,” or “Look Twice – Save a Life.” Still, I wonder how others genuinely look at us?  …

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Rider Choices – Rider Tips #81

How Good of a rider are you? Can you understand how others may or may not see you, and can you look where you may not see them? …

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Tribe Talk Happy Hour – 27 April 2022

Why we do things is often a theme to understand what the future brings, Tribe Talk Happy Hour continually asks the following five questions. Relate the following questions to being a RiderCoach or a better person. …

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Rider Choices – Rider Tips #80

How Good of a rider are you? Can you avoid other roadway users before you are trapped with no escape?

Please, stay safe and look for more ways to improve your Ride by looking for our weekly Tips! …

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The Sophistication of Professional Practice

In the words of Rita Lybek Murphy, everything relates to the Basic RiderCourse©.  As I discussed several professional topics with a colleague this week, we touched upon how the depth and breadth of being a RiderCoach would take enough commitment and desire to improve continually.  Without the intrinsic motivation for improvement, we become only minimally competent, ergo, only as good as we will ever be. …

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