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[hdaliaconis]

Agreed.  There is a benefit to living with in driving distance. 

[Royalroadie]

Wasn't saying it wasn't worth it, just that Many won't take it due to the cost. I would have been all over it a few years ago if I lived close.
For those of us living far away  we have :
Class fee with rental.       $900
Air fare                            600.
5 nights accommodations.  500
Rental car.                         300
Food.                                 250
Total.                                $2550.
Most won't lay out that kind of money for training, even though it's cheaper than an accident. Especially with three classes with each more expensive.

I did one class with the KCMO police dept. years ago.  It really helped.  We spent a lot of time working on slow control.  It improved my handling of the weight and balance of the bike.  It rained the whole day and the only thing we did not work on was high speed avoidance due to the slick conditions.  Why temp faith.  By the end of the class most of us could do the 18 ft circle figure 8s, which when I got there I said there was no way I could do that.  It is all in rear brake dragging.  Think of how the feathers on an arrow cause drag which keeps it going straight forward.  Try shooting a arrow with out the feather and see what happens.  I have alway felt that good training is a lot less expensive that going down.  One costs some cash, the other a pound of flesh, or even more,  I can always make more money.

[08glide]

watching riders enter parking lots is comical sometimes. I just got thru a one on one with a female ( good friend of mine's girl friend) he is amazed at the improvement in her skills. we just got back from watching faifax, va motor squad perform at orange,va. my friend & few others comment on my saying for "duck walking", I call it the "fred flinstone" fetish. YABBA- DABBA- do!