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Monday: 9AM - 5PM
Tuesday: 9AM - 5PM
Wednesday: 9AM - 5PM
Thursday: 9AM - 5PM
Friday: 9AM - 5AM
Saturday: 6AM - 6PM
Sunday: 6AM - 6PM
Bay Area Motorcycle Training offers beginning and advanced rider classes in San Francisco and Vallejo, with Vallejo classes held at the Solano County Fairgrounds. They provide the DMV riding test waiver for students who pass. Motorcycles, helmets, and gloves are provided for beginners. Classes run on weekends year-round and on weekdays in summer, with both online and in-person classroom sessions. The office is remote but reachable by phone or email on weekdays. Instructors are described as great, thorough, and firm on safety, doing demonstrations to ensure understanding. The class is considered straightforward, with a simple written test. The approach is strict but forgiving for new riders. The advice is to come with a learning attitude for a fun and educational experience focused on motorcycle safety.
Whole class was told to show up at one time, had to wait nearly an hour both days for class to start. Instructor had a completely different time than the one mentioned in our sternly worded email that emphasized SHOWING UP 15 MINUTES EARLY. During our evaluation on day 2, class was called because it was too dark. Whole class got an email saying they would have to PAY for a make-up class the next Saturday. After some back and forth they put together a class where we could come complete the course without paying. So we all had to go 3 times. Each time we had to wait for 30 minutes to an hour at the gate for class to start. If class had started on time we'd have finished...read full review
They are strict but it’s important for motorcycle riding also allot of the bad reviews are from people who didn’t pass the class so keep that in mind. My only thing that I would like then to improve on is better bikes but I bet they would just get stolen.
Carl and Anthony were great instructors, very thorough with each section. Carl would do demonstrations more than once to make sure we understood what to do and would tell the class what to look out for. As long as you come with the attitude to learn and leave the ego at home you'll have plenty of fun and learn a lot about motorcycle safety.