[ST] Re: ST/RS Turning Radius

[sprint_st@xxxxxxx]

Dan,
I got a reply last night from the SC Rider Education Organization who do
the classes.  The guy said it was a standard 4'/15' course.  Sorry, but I
have never come across a standard 4'/15' course and to me there are still
some missing dimensions.  I think the 4'/15' refers to two cones four feet
apart with one on the centerline and alternating in direction away from
the centerline.  There are five pairs of cones 15 feet apart.  The one
dimension I have yet to nail is how far from the centeline can the bike
travel while making making the turns.  I also don't know if the course I
was on was actually measured out correctly or not.  Again, getting info on
this from DMV has been mission impossible.  The SCRidED guy says that
bikes like mine do it all the time after their instructors show you how. 
I have a minor problem with that, why do you need to learn how to be an
observed trials rider on the street?  I'd also like to see a Gold Wing or
Dyna Glide go through that puppy.  Right now I wish my wife had bought a
Suzuki Savage a year or so back.  I think that thing can do a u-turn on a
sidewalk :-)

I'm in the process of contacting a local instructor to see if I can watch
a class actually do it.  Maybe I'm all screwed up as to how you are
supposed to do this guy.  I hope I'm just missing something.
Thanks,
Rod


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