MSF Range Exercises and Progression
Requirements Exam
Exercise 1: Motorcycle Familiarization
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate familiarity and proper use of primary controls before progressing
Exercise 2: Using the Friction Zone
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate balance, friction zone control and smooth braking
Exercise 3: Starting and Stopping Drill
Needed to Progress: Imperative student demonstrates adequate clutch, throttle and brake
coordination and a adequate ability to start and stop smoothly and in control
Exercise 4: Shifting and Stopping
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate overall control and smooth clutch, throttle and brake use while
maintaining good safety margins.
Exercise 5: Basic Skill Practice
Needed to Progress: Adjust speed and use controls smoothly to maintain overall control of bike
Exercise 6: Pressing to initiate and adjust lean
Needed to Progress: Negotiate a curve smoothly while maintaining the designated path of travel
Exercise 7: Stopping more quickly and tight turns from a stop
Needed to Progress: The ability to stop quickly and smoothly
Exercise 8: Stopping distance demo
Needed to Progress: none - demonstration only
Exercise 9: Limited Space Maneuvers
Needed to Progress: demonstrate controlled maneuvering in low speed, limited path of travel
situations
Exercise 10: Stopping in a curve
Needed to Progress: demonstrate basic skills for stopping in a curve
Exercise 11: Curve Judgment
Needed to Progress: Demonstrates overall control while negotiation curves and stays within marked
path
Exercise 12: Multiple curves and lane changes
Needed to Progress: Properly negotiating curves and makes effective lane changes
Exercise 13: Crossing and obstacle and swerving
Requirements Exam
Exercise 1: Motorcycle Familiarization
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate familiarity and proper use of primary controls before progressing
Exercise 2: Using the Friction Zone
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate balance, friction zone control and smooth braking
Exercise 3: Starting and Stopping Drill
Needed to Progress: Imperative student demonstrates adequate clutch, throttle and brake
coordination and a adequate ability to start and stop smoothly and in control
Exercise 4: Shifting and Stopping
Needed to Progress: Demonstrate overall control and smooth clutch, throttle and brake use while
maintaining good safety margins.
Exercise 5: Basic Skill Practice
Needed to Progress: Adjust speed and use controls smoothly to maintain overall control of bike
Exercise 6: Pressing to initiate and adjust lean
Needed to Progress: Negotiate a curve smoothly while maintaining the designated path of travel
Exercise 7: Stopping more quickly and tight turns from a stop
Needed to Progress: The ability to stop quickly and smoothly
Exercise 8: Stopping distance demo
Needed to Progress: none - demonstration only
Exercise 9: Limited Space Maneuvers
Needed to Progress: demonstrate controlled maneuvering in low speed, limited path of travel
situations
Exercise 10: Stopping in a curve
Needed to Progress: demonstrate basic skills for stopping in a curve
Exercise 11: Curve Judgment
Needed to Progress: Demonstrates overall control while negotiation curves and stays within marked
path
Exercise 12: Multiple curves and lane changes
Needed to Progress: Properly negotiating curves and makes effective lane changes
Exercise 13: Crossing and obstacle and swerving
