Abilene Safety Instruction

BUYER BEWARE if the student is a minor. Texas DPS won't accept completion of this course as an exam waiver for anyone under 18. This was never explained to me while I visited with them to sign their various papers, but they were happy to take my money anyway. The entire point was to have an exam waiver on a bike provided by the school, as the student does not have one of his own. Called Abilene Safety after an embarrassing trip to the DPS who sent us packing after waiting in line.

The person I spoke with told me that the info was listed clearly on the Abilene Safety website. It was and is not. The aloof attitude of the person at Abilene Safety who took my call. "So other than that, what else can I do for you? You're just going to have to be mad" - tells me all I need to know about these people. TL;DR The curriculum is fine, but their business practices leave plenty to be desired. Edit: After second phone call from ASI nothing is different. Verbal treatment kind of veered into patronizing.

I know that I repeated my grievance. That's what normal people do when their input is blown off or disregarded. Bottom line is that we changed many plans to enable our son to take this course, and were not informed that he would have to perform a driving test at the DPS with us providing a motorcycle. Vendor needs to be very clear about policy when minors are involved.

Took the Basic Riders Corse1 with Mort and Glen as the instructors(I think they rotate instructors) Mort was great and like to joke around some but is serious when needs to be. Glen looks really intimidating at first but he was very cool and gave lot so good feed back. I have never rode a motorcycle meaningfully before and now know how to least get going and basics of what to do. No one got kicked out and they do seem to work with you as much as they can but it is pretty fast paced. Had a lot of fun and learned a ton.

I required a little more help that most, but they provided as much extra encouragement as they had time for. If I could go back, I would probably be a little more comfortable with shifting before doing the course, as they don't give you much time to get used to the motorcycle before they want you to crank up the speed. There were a few times I didn't feel comfortable and they did make me feel like I was slowing everyone down, which I felt was unsafe for myself and their motorcycle.

The course is advertised for beginners, I paid the same price as everyone else and wasn't super happy about that. At the very least, I feel like a heads up would have been nice before taking the course as to what they expected you to already know. As someone stated before, it was mostly just long term riders who were looking to get street legal. I probably would recommend them to friends and family, but I may suggest they go elsewhere.

Of note is that it could have just been the instructors I had and as they rotate, many other people may have had a different, and more pleasant, experience. I got my motorcycle license and all is well, so they did their job.

Mort and jeromy are awesome instructors with great experience as well as they are great veterans! Would highly recommend!

Mort was a knowledgeable and awesome instructor. The school was clean and very comfortable. There equipment was well maintained and easy to learn on. Mort answered all questions I had and passed on very valuable information from his many years of riding. I will be sending my wife and daughter back to this school to get there license as well. I recommend this school to anyone needing there motorcycle endorsement. Thanks mort for a great experience!

Can only give a "3". A three for the instructors, but not the course as given. It's advertised as for "beginners" but 3/4 of the students were long-time riders just getting legal. If you fell behind skill-wise they would work with you.to a point. Eventually, the show must go on. The pace was too fast for this beginner, but the skills keep stacking. For what that's worth.

Went through the MSF course a couple years ago here, and the instructor was real nice and patient with people. Definitely recommend coming here for all the MSF courses(basic & advanced)

Instructors were very professional. They made everyone from the person who had never been on bike to the lifelong rider feel comfortable. They were thorough with the instruction and made sure everyone understood the curriculum.

This place was great. The guys that run the course are amazing. I never touched a motorcycle before this course and left an MSF certified rider. They do a great job to teach you and let you know what you need to improve on. Anyone can pass MSF if you come to these guys and listen and learn from what they say. If you can't pass with these guys it's not thier teaching or anything to do with thier facility, the only way you would fail is your own inability to listen and learn to their teaching, especially if you go in thinking that you know it all you will certainly fail trust me, because I had guys in my group who failed previously and admitted it was thier own fault. So take this class, learn, listen, and you will be fine.