Risk Management Magazine

Just get back from a deployment? How about a mid-tour leave? Or maybe you’re just getting ready to ride again after a winter break. If you’re like me, you’re probably itching to take your bike out for a long-overdue ride along some back country roads.

Exactly six months after I bought my first motorcycle, I had my first accident. It’s a day I’ll never forget.

After nearly two decades of riding, my confidence level when operating a motorcycle is quite high. Having experience in varied conditions — from clear and sunny, rainy and overcast, hot and muggy, cold and snowy, and the bliss that is 68 degrees and light clouds — I just love the time spent in the saddle.