San Diego Motorcycle Training

Negative experience: Paid in full but she over booked the class….Would have been a great learning , experience and environment. HOWEVER I paid the 150$ , received my confirmation email and the instructor was in contact with me. When I showed up for class there was only 5 bikes and 6 students. She was unsure how it happened. Myself and a student decided to share a bike to try and make it work since we were all already there and PAID! Made it through Most of the class but class went over time and I still wasn’t able to learn the last exercises. I reached out requesting a make up for the material I wasn’t able to learn due to her over booking students. I received no email, no text or refund. I am bummed because it was a cool class, till it wasn’t. And I didn’t get what I paid for.

Negative experience: My experience with this business has been overwhelmingly disappointing due to the owner’s lack of fairness and reliability. They canceled classes on me twice due to their own health issues, which I tried to accommodate. However, when I had a personal emergency, they refused to extend me the same understanding and kept my payment. Despite promising to follow up, it’s been months without any communication. This business seems more focused on keeping payments than on building supportive, respectful relationships with its clients.

Fantastic experience: I started riding last fall at age 61. Anne was the best teacher I could've wished for. Really careful, simple rules, thorough repetition, extremely safe as a result. I took all three classes, spaced by two weeks to slowly absorb each lesson.

Negative experience: This is the worst course. There is no classroom. You sit outside in a group reading from a printed out packet most of the time. When you do get on a motorcycle it is on old motorcycles that are falling apart in parking lots that are too small to do any real maneuvers. The second parking lot for the B2 and B3 courses is also very run down with uneven surfaces and potholes everywhere. The instructor Anne also teaches unsafe practices. She tells the students it's more important to be comfortable when riding and that safety equipment does not really protect you. She said that helmets only protect the skull and not the brain. Implying they are not important and the only reason you need to wear something on your head is because it's required by law. She had the students wear gardening and mechanic gloves rather than motorcycle gloves and tennis shoes rather than boots. I refused and kept my motorcycles gloves and Harley Davidson boots on. She claims the gardening and mechanic gloves help you feel the clutch and throttle better and the tennis shoes help you feel the gears better. I think she was more worried about her cheap motorcycles breaking than about the safety of her students. A lot of the stuff she said during the course was very dangerous. I fear she is going to get someone killed. This course is also not an CMSP Motorcyclist Training Course(MTC). You will not earn a certificate for passing this course that you can take to the DMV to bypass the motorcycle driving part of the test. In fact, there is no pass or fail for this course. Basically, this course is a waste of time and money and is potentially very dangerous. Do yourself a favor and take a legitimate CMSP Motorcyclist Training Course(MTC).

Fantastic experience: Great people. They really care about you