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ride well in the parking lot,” says Trow. “It wasn’t answering that question, ‘Alright now what,’ so Larry began working more with riders who were coming off of the parking lot and working with them on the street and providing coaching.” Larry’s one-on-one coaching eventually developed into the Stayin’ Safe training tours, which combine some of the best rid-ing in the country with real-time coaching, skills development, an overnight stay and the camaraderie of riding in a group. Trow, also a former MSF instructor, found himself wondering why he was spending all of his weekends standing in a parking lot watching other people ride motorcycles. “The idea of ‘Wow, I could be riding and training other riders,’ was re-ally appealing, and then as I got more in-volved in the program, I just have absolutely embraced the value of real-time coaching and dealing with real-world situations and providing input to riders in the moment. It is just an amazing thing,” says Trow. Sadly, in April of 2006, Grodsky passed on, creating a watershed moment for the program. “There were about four of us who had been working with Larry in different regions, and we all knew each 26 June 2011 motorcycleproductnews.com
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