The more I thought about this motorcycle thing the more it seemed doable. I felt sure I could still ride a smaller bike but I wanted to be certain. That is when my on-line research turned up the Motorcycle Safety Foundation http://www.msf-usa.org/. I checked into classes in Kansas and turned up some possibilities, talked it over with my wife and kids and decided that I would take a class to see if I still could and even if I still wanted to. Sue (wife) and our daughters Julie, Sheila and Pam went together and gave me the class for my 63rd birthday. I took the MSF course at Hutchinson Junior College (Kansas) the last weekend in June. There were 12 of us, I was the oldest of course, ten of us passed. I felt I held my own with the younger riders but there was no competition, everyone was pulling for everyone else, such is the nature and appeal of the motorcycling community.
I should mention that Sue owned her own motorcycle back in the day and was a good rider. She had a 250cc (YDS-3) Yamaha twin and I rode a Honda CL-77. That was before kids.
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