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It depends on the type of person she is and how she learns. If she gets flustered or embarrassed easily when she is learning than take her to an empty parking lot so she can gather some sort of confidence on a bike before the MSF. She doesn't have to ride it. She can sit on the bike with it running, push it in a straight line, put it on full choke so the bike will move under idle. It will allow her to understand the weight of the bike and how everything works.

Some people are timid. Some people hate learning in groups. Some people don't want to feel embarrassed. If you give the person an opportunity to feel a little more comfortable they will get more out of the class.

Excellent Idea BrowningBAR..Great advice...and so true Some woman need a little head start cause they might feel a little intimidated by class full of mostly guys... I don't think it would hurt just to show her how things work and like you said she doesn't have to ride the bike before MSF. Even though I had some very limited dirt bike experience a long time ago before I took the MSF class, I think if just someone would have shown me the controls it would have made me more comfortable.

My first wife and most of my girl friends were a little timid. They were a little intimated by situations like a male dominated MSF class or ski class.. My current wife wouldn't listen to any thing I would say so I would send her to MSF without a head start..I can't teach her anything... I am sure she would be correcting the instructors in 30 minutes..i.e. she questions everything.. I tried to teach her to ski.. I gave up after 20 minutes. Paid someone else to.. Best money I ever spent..

 

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Good suggestion. My wife hates manual transmissions even though she had a old VW bug with a stick when I met her. My dental hygienist got a scooter and her husband rides a cruiser.. She loves it, and she keeps up with her husband easily

 

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LOL:lol: Excellent Point.. Even though most of us are all married and we know she makes all the decisions. Because we have less memory (and it's less accurate) we still make the same mistakes over and over i.e. we will try to make the decision for her..;-) Thanks for the reminder...My wife remembers every thing and can recite things back word for word.. I am lucky to remember what I had for lunch..