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About Us
Welcome to the Begin 2 Ride program at San Diego Motorcycle Training!
Training was started here in our Kearny Mesa facility in 1979 by Ted Summerfield and Susan Townsend,
making us the oldest continuously operated motorcycle training school in the nation.
Ted and Susan retired from motorcycle training in 1998. Joe Elliott was invited to take over operation in 1998.
Joe Elliott was an award winning motorcycle instructor and site coordinating instructor working in LA and Orange counties.
He worked with his mentor, Meredith 'Hoot' Gibson. It had been joked that Hoot had been doing motorcycle training since before there were motorcycles!
In the 1990s, Hoot and Joe were interested in developing instructor training techniques for instructors and were contracted to train Site Coordinating
Instructors (SCI) at the Fullerton motorcycle training facility in Orange County. Much of the difficulty with teaching the instructors was not with the
instructors, which led Hoot and Joe to the realization that a third program was needed for the students, for beginner riders.
Joe, who happens to be an athlete, as well as a scholar
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recognized that there are three general periods in sports skill development; the Beginners Time, the Learners Time, and the Ongoing Participation Time.
It was clear that the current motorcycle training programs had been developed for the Learners Time and the Ongoing Riders Time.
This left people who were just interested in learning about motorcycles (& not necessarily wanting to become motorcyclists),
and future motorcyclists (who are true beginners), without a place to begin.
In 2000, National Motorcycle Training was formed to develop the Begin 2 Ride program.
It consists of three hour riding sessions, with different sessions focuing on different skill sets, to be used as skill building blocks.
In July of 2001 the Begin 2 Ride program conducted its first class for true beginners here in Kearny Mesa.
The mission was to provide information to people interested in learning more about motorcycling without promoting motorcycling..
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* We recommend Riding Session 1, 'Getting Started, an Introduction to Beginning Motorcycling',
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* We recommend Riding Session 3, 'Combination Skills' be completed
* before you have your first motorcycle ride on the street.
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|The Story of how the Begin 2 Ride Program was developed.|
|About Senior Instructor Mark Carroll|
Updated 06.11.08
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