Lik

I'd go with Pacific Riding School ( http://www.pacificridingschool.com ). Some of the instructors from other schools were originally taught by Dat and Kramer and PRS. PRS has tons of street cred and a very strong following over at BC Sportsbike. At $745 now, the course is not cheap, but I guarantee you it is money well spent. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that if I could only spend $750 between taking riding lessons from PRS or spending the same amount on protective riding gear, I'd go with the course. (Of course, I'd never ride without proper protective riding gear.)

Stature is generally not a problem, although the length of your legs / inseam certainly plays a role. At PRS at least, the shorter folks will most likely be assigned to ride the cruiser MC instead of the taller dual purpose bikes. Assuming a typical torso-legs ratio, 5'3" should not give you any problems with the learner bikes.

The only "problem" you'll run into down the road is, because of your shorter stature, bigger bikes will present a bigger challenge to you should you choose to ride them. The big cruisers, in particular, are really heavy and you'd have to be extra careful should you choose to ride those. Bike selection will also be more limited to you because of your height. When you're out looking to purchase your own bike, chances are, you'll find the smaller displacement bikes (600cc or less, but most probably 400cc or less) make for a better match for your physical size.

-Lik

Lik

By scooter, if you mean the 50cc kind where no license is required, I would not recommend you to go that route. You may think you know the rules of the road all too well because you've had your class 5 for the longest time, but lemme tell ya -- when you're on a bike, it's a whole different ball game.

-Lik

Lik

oh, by going to the scooter route, i mean getting a licence first, then start riding a scooter.  then move on to sport bike. (if i don't have the resistence from my hubbie.  haha)

does PRS have priva ...
Mini 發表於 2009-6-21 23:10

If you are doing this, make sure you take the licencing exam on a proper manual shift motorcycle. If the road test is done with a shiftless/auto-shifting vehicle, you would not be allowed to ride manual shift motorcycles with that licence.

Once you have a proper MC licence, there is little reason to ride 50cc scooters (other than the slightly lower insurance cost). 125 -250cc scooters would all be perfectly good choices, but each engine size makes the scooter behave very differently. Then again, bigger bikes and cars are like that as well.

-Lik