Motorcyclists Pushed to Limits at Pendleton

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Lonnie Etter, Class II instructor from the California Superbike School, gives a class to service members on cornering techniques at the Helicopter Outlying Landing Field on Camp Pendleton.


Motorcyclists Pushed to Limits at Pendleton

By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jan 18, 2009 9:27:43 EST

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — One after another, the riders drove their motorcycles around tight curves, knees dangling just inches above the ground.

Across the vast expanse of concrete and asphalt, a handful of riders — all but two on sport racing bikes — pushed their machines to 60 mph before pressing the brakes and coming to a quick stop.

Military transport helicopters typically land and take off from this Helicopter Outlying Landing Field at Camp Pendleton’s northern training area. But on Tuesday, the 4,000-foot airstrip, surrounded by hills and a peak at the Pacific Ocean, became a racetrack of sorts for three-dozen sport bike riders.

The riders were participating in the second day of a two-day Advanced Motorcycle Operating Skills course, part of the first of three “beta” tests conducted by the Corps with a private motorcycle training school.

Marine officials invited Keith Code, founder of the California Superbike School, to run the courses, with an eye toward pushing the Marines’ riding limits and expanding their motorcycle skills. It’s more than what they’d get at the Corps’ own basic, experienced and advanced motorcycle courses.

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[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Per friends of mine the Dept of the Navy has issued new rules for MC riders

military and civilian. Recurrent training, some of it dependent on the bike being ridden. Many perceive it as an attempt to make it oo hard for service members to ride.

[Duckhunter935]

2. I am afraid that is what it will come too

Just make it too much of a hassle to ride or register motorcycle on post. Will not limit off post riding except for active duty but they do not always follow the rules either.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. It applies to scooters too, which are great gas saving vehicles