AFMC Sport Bike Course to teach bike safety at Robins Published March 7, 2008 By Holly Birchfield 78th ABW/PA Robins Air Force Base, GA -- Robins is among several Air Force Materiel Command bases to host a Sport Bike Course to teach riders how to be safer. Robins began training instructors for the sport bike course March 3 and will continue preparing people to teach the course through March 15. The Sport Bike Course, an Air Mobility Command inspired class which teaches riders how to properly handle their sport bike on the road, will come open to people with base access beginning in April. Staff Sgt. Bradley Humphrey, a Motorcycle Safety Foundation instructor and a Sport Bike Course instructor at Robins, said the course is intended to cut sport bike-related mishaps. "It's a more intense training program for sport bike riders to teach them what the capabilities of their bikes are and how to handle them properly," he said. Jerry Morningstar, a program administrator in the 78th Air Base Wing Safety Office, said the program is wide reaching. "We're basically a test and evaluation bed for (the course)," he said. "If everything goes right, (the Air Force Safety Center) plans to put it out Air Force wide." Mr. Morningstar said AFMC has made the course available throughout the command. Robins will hold the one-day course at least two times each month at the Robins motorcycle training area beginning in April. Donn Johnson, senior motorcycle safety instructor at Robins, is helping Mr. Morningstar determine pre-requisites and scheduling for the class. He said the course isn't for new riders. "It's an advanced class, so we don't want to put somebody who's just now buying a bike into that class," he said. "They need to get some basic experience by going to the Bike Rider's Course and the Experienced Rider's Course that we provide here before we put them in the Sport Bike Course." Mr. Johnson said he hopes the Sport Bike Course will change riders' mindsets and bring safety to the forefront.