The Adventures of Bren and Sven

The Final Day

Sven here, taking over for Day 2 of our MSP (Motorcycle Safely Program) experience. I was feeling mighty sore that morning. I learned that I shouldn’t have shaved my head extra short right before spending an afternoon in Corona in mid-August… lesson learned. But thankfully day two started at 6am and was fairly cool and overcast. With our morning coffee in hand, things became a tad more tolerable and promising. It was business as usual once the instructors and bikes were ready to go. We conduc...

Day One

The class consisted of a mix of 12 experienced and novice riders, all led by a very charismatic and experienced instructor named, “Doc” (yes, he is a Doctor).  Now, I will jump through the class section rather quickly because even though it is important, it is boring as hell, and all I want to do is get a vibrating engine between my legs… preferably with two wheels and handle bars attached to it. So the class; well it consisted of relatively recently made movies (not the outdated ones staring wa...

The Two Wheeled Odyssey Begins

Ok, so the journey really began when our wee nads decided to drop and we discovered the need for speed and adrenaline on our first bicycle…. But to save the reader from boring recollections of childhoods past, our bike journey began on the 14th of August, 2009 at around 6:30 in the morning. This is where, as sensible young riders (I know that is a big oxymoron, but we did decide to be smart about this), the brenandsven team found ourselves in Norco, California for our first day of Califor...