Listen, I can't teach anyone critical thinking skills. That's why I'm sincerely hoping that if you're reading this piece (or heck, RideApart in general; might as well aim high, right?) that you already have them. And also, that you have a reasonably good grasp on how to tell what's real from what's not, whether or not you agree with it.
I also have a sense of humor about most things, probably including things that I shouldn't. But motorcycle safety is a topic I take pretty seriously, and that's why it makes me incredibly mad that someone seems to have taken advantage of an unfortunate yawning gap in MSF basic motorcycle safety course options in the Northern Illinois/Chicago area to completely hallucinate a course that appears to have NEVER existed.
At the top of our piece, you'll find a screenshot taken from an extremely sketchy-looking article that calls itself, "How to Enroll in the College of DuPage Motorcycle Safety Course." Now, if you have zero familiarity with the Chicagoland area and its geography, nor with how MSF training has been offered here in recent years, then none of this will spark your spidey-senses.
