Shari Ives
Director
Fifteen-plus years teaching, and part of training more than 20,000 students. Has ridden through 40 states, including Route 66 in 2007 and the Canadian Rockies in 2008. Her focus is rider safety.
Fifteen RiderCoaches
The people who'll be standing on the range with you
Retired police motor officers. Riders with half a million miles. People who took the beginner course here themselves and came back to teach it. You will not be handed to someone who learned this last season.
Why this matters more than a star rating
Anyone can put a five-star badge on a website. What you actually want to know is who is watching you the first time you let out a clutch — and whether they have seen what goes wrong.
Several of our coaches spent careers riding motorcycles for police departments. One of them still certifies New Jersey motor officers. Several others were beginners on this same range and came back.
Mike DeProspo
A retired motorcycle police officer with 40 years of riding behind him and roughly half a million miles logged. Three years as a RiderCoach.
Mike Grasso
Motor officer and instructor, certified by the Maryland State Police since 1998, and trains New Jersey police motor officers. Four years as a RiderCoach here.
Janet Santiago
Twenty-plus years riding and over 100,000 miles across the USA and Canada, including two solo cross-country runs — New Jersey to California and back.
Bobby Adamo
Took the Basic RiderCourse in 2009 and came back as a RiderCoach in 2011. Teaches safe, proper technique first.
Irene
Had never ridden before taking the MSF Basic RiderCourse in 2009. A RiderCoach since 2015 — the clearest proof that day one is a starting line, not a test.
Christy
Trained at the Riverdale range as a student and came back to coach there.
Joe
A retired motor officer out of Jersey City with 22 years of riding.
Richie
A veteran with 30 years on everything from sport bikes to cruisers, plus cross-country touring.
Big Mike (Snax)
Thirty-seven years of riding, and says his own riding improved through training here before he started coaching.
Jenn
Twenty years of motorcycling and 23 years teaching mathematics — she knows how to break a hard thing into steps.
Matt
Nearly three decades of motorcycling and long-distance riding across multiple states.
Sean
Close to thirty years in the saddle.
Alex
Years of riding, and a focus on walking beginners through each stage of skill development.
George
Came up through three skill classes at the centre before coaching. Teaches proper, safe riding.
Coach details are as published by Motorcycle Riding Centers. Which coaches are running any given class depends on the date and the range.
Want to meet them?
Pick a class date and you will. Or call and ask which coaches are running the class you are looking at.