Skills Competition and Training
The Keystone State Motorcycle Skills Safety Seminar and Competition is a public service event to promote motorcycle safety and the benefits of motorcycle training. Motorcycle Officers are at the forefront and are often considered the icon of a skilled motorcycle operator. However, with training and practice civilian riders can also reach the same level of skill and proficiency in an effort to produce safer motorcycle riders on the highway.
The Keystone State Motorcycle Skills Safety Seminar and Competition is a public service event to promote motorcycle safety and the benefits of motorcycle training. Motorcycle Officers are at the forefront and are often considered the icon of a skilled motorcycle operator. However, with training and practice civilian riders can also reach the same level of skill and proficiency in an effort to produce safer motorcycle riders on the highway.
Eligibility
- Competition is open to all sworn Law Enforcement Officers (active or retired) as well as Civilian riders. (Please be advised that the Advanced Divisions are more demanding than MSF ERC standards).
- Registration fee will be $65.00 per competitor.
- All competitors shall sign a Release / Waiver of Liability form prior to practice or competition.
- All competitors shall have insurance. Government agencies will be considered self-insured.
- A Rules Committee will be established to settle all disputes that cannot be settled at the Judges level.
- All decisions of the Rules Committee are final.
- The Chairman and Vice Chairman will be decided by the Committee members
- However, no one on the Rules Committee will be from a department/group that is involved in the dispute.
- The Chairman of the Rules Committee will preside over the committee unless his or her agency/group is involved in the dispute. In that case, the Vice Chairman will be the Chairman.
- All questions submitted to the Rules Committee shall be discussed and put to a vote by the committee.
- Majority vote rules.
- The Committee members of the agency or group involved in the dispute may participate in any discussion but shall not have a vote.
- In the event of a tie vote, The Committee Chairman shall not cast a second vote to break the tie, and the dispute or proposal upon which the tie occurs shall be referred back to the Chief Judge. The Chief Judge’s decision is final.
- A Chief Judge will be appointed, whose duties will consist of the following:
- Official Score Keeper
- Supervise Judges
- Mediate scoring disputes
- If any rider disagrees with his/her score, then he/she must notify the Chief Judge immediately. If the Chief Judge is unable to settle the dispute, then the matter will be referred to the Rules Committee.
- Riders must attend MANDATORY Riders meeting as scheduled before the competition each day. Failure to attend can result in disqualification of the rider from the competition.
- Riders must compete on a motorcycle of at least 1000 cc’s that is equipped in the normal deployment configuration as delivered from the factory. However, original equipment saddlebags, saddlebag guards, lights, engine guards and windshields must be present on the motorcycle. Lowers and mirrors may be removed from a motorcycle if so equipped. If a motorcycle enters the completion staging area with aftermarket equipment, the equipment shall remain on the motorcycle unless excused by the Rules Committee.
- Motorcycle instructors will be required to ride in the Motor Officer Expert Division.
- Riders’ placement in the Expert (Civilian or LE) or Advanced division may be changed based on the riders’ ability. The rider may be moved from either class, up or down, on the recommendation of the rules committee.
- Riders must wear a properly fastened D.O.T. approved helmet, full-length pants and over the ankle shoes. Gloves and long sleeve shirts are suggested while on the course. This also includes the practice day.
- No rider shall enter the course or challenge pattern prior to attending a safety briefing and signing a liability waiver. This includes the practice day on Thursday.
- Registration placement numbers shall be properly affixed to the headlight of the riders motorcycle prior to entering the course. Wristbands will be issued to all participants. The wristband must be in place in order to enter the competition area unless escorted by a member of the event staff.
- Riders are responsible for maintenance and repairs of their own equipment. Should a rider experience and unexpected malfunction he/she will be allowed 15 minutes to repair or replace a motorcycle and continue participation. (Riding order may be altered if necessary). Once a rider starts an event, excuses for breakdowns will not be allowed.
- All competitors will display sportsmanship-like behavior at all times.
- Any person(s) injured shall immediately report the incident to event staff.
- Anyone who displays or engages in unsportsmanlike conduct as determined by the competition committee may be disqualified from the competition. All judge’s rulings are final!
- To be eligible to win the contestant MUST compete both Friday and Saturday.
- As safety is of paramount concern, all riders moving from one area to the next must do so at idle speed or not more than 5 miles per hour as appropriate or risk disqualification from the event.
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