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other but had never met.” The team got together in person for the first time at Grodsky’s funeral and found themselves wondering if they should carry on. “We reached out to the folks who had been taking the program, and they said by all means keep it going, so that’s what we did,” says Trow, who took his current leadership role with the program in 2008. More Than Just Safety Instruction “Safety is a huge part of what we do, but if I say to people right off the bat, ‘I’m going to spend the next hour talking about safety: boy, won’t that be fun?’” says Trow. “No, safety to me is the product of the program. I never set out to be a particularly safe rider — I wanted to be a better rider and yes, I was interested in safety. But quite frankly, for years I thought that safety meant they’re just going to make me go slow. We make training fun, and the students tell us they have more fun riding their motorcycle now than they ever did and, ‘Oh, by the way, I feel much, much safer.’” Stayin’ Safe now educates approximately 200 students a year in programs held in nine states across the country. Programs vary from four-hour mini tours at rallies to two-day overnight touring adventures, and motorcycleproductnews.com June 2011 27
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