How to Perform a Routine Check of a Motorcycle

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Jeff Thompson
Vice President of Course Curriculum, Motorcycle Riding Concepts
www.saddleupva.com  
703-491-9102

Motorcycle Riding Concepts provides cutting-edge motorcycle training. Our goal is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to meet the many challenges that operating a motorcycle on the streets of any metropolitan area presents. Our students are instructed by career police motorcycle officers, who ride motorcycles every day for a living.  Our certified instructors have  taught motorcycling skills to students from across the country and abroad. We will provide training motorcycles similar to the customers' personal choices, enabling them to experience and demonstrate learned skills without fear of damaging their own pride and joy. Upon completion of the training, our students will leave with the tools they need to enhance their skills, making them a safer rider and increasing their enjoyment of their motorcycling experience.</font>

Jeffrey Thompson is the Vice President of Course Curriculum for Motorcycle Riding Concepts. Jeff is a Police Sergeant and is currently assigned as a Crash Reconstruction Supervisor for a large suburban police agency. Jeff has owned, built, and operated motorcycles both on- and off-road for 40 years, of which 27 years have been with the police department. Jeff has been a certified Motorcycle Instructor for 20 years and has had the opportunity to instruct students from all over the USA and abroad.

How to Perform a Routine Check of a Motorcycle

This video will show how to perform a routine check of a motorcycle.

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Jeff Thompson: Hi! I am Jeff Thompson at Motorcycle Riding Concepts and I am going to teach you how to ride a motorcycle today. Before we get started there is an important thing that you need to do every day and in every week or so just to check your motorcycle out, we have talked already about motorcycle safety.

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