I'm open to hearing good and bad things. Keep in mind..... my goal in all this is to
A: build confidence (safer)
B: be smoother
not so much to go faster
for starters, i think anyone that rides a motorcycle at all should do level 1 @ CSS. if you never intend to set wheel on a track again maybe you don't need to go beyond that, but level 1 is a must in my book.
your A and B there is exactly what you will get out of CSS L1. CSS is NOT a go fast track school, it's a cornering school. there's no qualifier there about how fast you go around said corner. if you're getting the material they don't care how fast you're going.
since any maroon can ride a bike in a straight line, it's basically just a school for how to ride. L1 is *really* slow.. you spend a lot of time doing drills like 4th gear, no brakes. but it positively will build your confidence and make you a much smoother rider.
as for the rest of CSS, yes, you'll probably start to go faster. because you get better at cornering and that's inevitably what happens. but seriously, they don't care how fast you go if you are learning the lessons.
lessons.. which brings us to reg pridmore. there are, imo, two major problems with CLASS:
1) there is no, or there is only barely a, cirriculum. they have a general idea of what they want you to do but you'll also hear, a LOT, "try this. if it doesn't work for you, don't do it." at least for how i learn, that's way too effing vague. compared to CSS where they have a very set cirriculum, reg is wayyyy too whatever dude. if i'm kinda nervous and want to know the right way to do something, their laissez-faire method makes me.. more nervous.
2) there are two ways to get through a corner: straighten it or shorten it. CSS teaches the former, CLASS teaches the latter. there's nothing 'wrong' with either approach... but there's a reason why you don't see any racers.. in any race.. hugging the inside of every corner. so while the shorten the corner method might be effective when you are less experienced and slower, you are inevitably (via more instruction or just because you practice) going to start to go faster. and this is where the 'nearly irresponsible' thing comes in.. imo the CLASS method should be saved for goldwing owners.
