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I wanted to get a motorcycle endorsement on my driver’s license, and in Pennsylvania the method was to take a class from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. Each class had three two-hour classroom sessions and three one-hour riding sessions. The classroom sessions concluded with a written test and the riding session concluded with riding test. Pass both and you received your endorsement.
During the first classroom session, in between video safety shorts, one of the instructors asked almost off-handedly, “why do motorcycles have clutch-type transmissions?”. This engendered a lot of responses like, “for fuel efficiency”, and “automatic transmissions are too expensive”, and “it’s more fun”. The instructor nodded, acknowledged each answer in turn, but said, “yeah, those are all good, but there is better reason”. Then he let it drop and he started the next video safety short. This was repeated at the end of the mid-class break during the second week. There were more offerings from us students and the same response, “yeah, but there is better reason”, but no further explanation.
At the end of the final classroom session it was time for the multiple-choice test. I start and I think that I am doing pretty well, I feel prepared. Then I get to this:
10. Why do motorcycles have clutch-type transmissions?
A. For fuel efficiency.
B. Keep engine costs affordable.
C. To rev the engine at traffic lights.
D. So that the engine speed matches the road speed.
Well dang. I’m going with D. I finish and turn in my exam which was graded right as I stood there in front of the instructor. He marks question 10 correct, and winks at me. Perfect score I pass. Turns out that for years no one got a perfect score, most often stumbling over question 10 . . . .
I wanted to get a motorcycle endorsement on my driver’s license, and in Pennsylvania the method was to take a class from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. Each class had three two-hour classroom sessions and three one-hour riding sessions. The classroom sessions concluded with a written test and the riding session concluded with riding test. Pass both and you received your endorsement.
During the first classroom session, in between video safety shorts, one of the instructors asked almost off-handedly, “why do motorcycles have clutch-type transmissions?”. This engendered a lot of responses like, “for fuel efficiency”, and “automatic transmissions are too expensive”, and “it’s more fun”. The instructor nodded, acknowledged each answer in turn, but said, “yeah, those are all good, but there is better reason”. Then he let it drop and he started the next video safety short. This was repeated at the end of the mid-class break during the second week. There were more offerings from us students and the same response, “yeah, but there is better reason”, but no further explanation.
At the end of the final classroom session it was time for the multiple-choice test. I start and I think that I am doing pretty well, I feel prepared. Then I get to this:
10. Why do motorcycles have clutch-type transmissions?
A. For fuel efficiency.
B. Keep engine costs affordable.
C. To rev the engine at traffic lights.
D. So that the engine speed matches the road speed.
Well dang. I’m going with D. I finish and turn in my exam which was graded right as I stood there in front of the instructor. He marks question 10 correct, and winks at me. Perfect score I pass. Turns out that for years no one got a perfect score, most often stumbling over question 10 . . . .
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