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Conclusion
Along with this
outline, you should be given verbal instruction by
the Road Captain or Officer of you chapter. Study this
workshop outline, the road rules, and you should know them
like the back of your hand. It is of the utmost
importance that each rider knows and abides by
these rules and guidelines. Safety should be the primary
goal and concern of all motorcyclist. Your Road Captain
or Coordinator of a ride does not
want to have to remove you from the group, nor does
he want to have to attend a funeral or go to the
hospital to visit a member who was needlessly
injured due to the lack of a persons lack of
knowledge..
One last item to be
covered is personal safety. Always carry on your
person, (riders and passengers) a next of kin
contact list, known medical problems, allergies,
and any medications you might need while you are
on the ride. If you pass out because you are a
diabetic, the Road Captain needs to know you are a
diabetic, so he will know how to handle your care
and what to tell the emergency personnel.
It is recommended that
all road Captains
carry Jumper Cables, a first aid kit, water,
band-aids, a siphon hose, and tools to handle just
about any emergency situation. If we all do our
part by being ready for the ride, straight, sober,
alert, and with all the necessary items for our
ride, the Road Captain should never need to break
out his emergency equipment.
Although this workshop
may have seemed pretty elementary to some, you
must remember that we also have new motorcyclist
out there who
may not have your experience. This workshop was
designed to refresh seasoned riders who may need
to break some old habits and at the same time
provide an insight to riders with less knowledge
of the dos and don'ts of pack riding. No matter
how much experience we might have, every ride is
different in on each event and a lot of times you
are riding with people you do not know and have
never ridden with before. Each time you mount
up you may be riding next to a different person
than the last time your rode. It is for this
reason that we must all strive to watch out for
one another and the responsibility to correct a
riders who may be performing unsafe practices
during a ride. Thank you for attending this
workshop. It is our hope that each of you are
taking something away from here that will be of
benefit to you and possible save someone's life.
Please check our educational section as well and you may find it
very informative when you are out and about on
rides.
  
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