So I think I'm going to give instructing at the MSF classes a shot. Apparently there's a state-run training program. Prior to enrolling in that program, you're required to attend and assist at four Basic Riders' Courses; then the program, which gives you your instructor's certification; and then the teaching part. Once all the instruction is out of the way, you get paid a couple hundred bucks for teaching a weekend class. It's not enough to make me rich, but I generally enojy teaching (witness my several years of teaching sailing classes), it'll help me keep my skills sharp, and a couple hundred bucks is certainly better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Also, it would seem that instructing allows bikes and bike gear to be a writeoff on one's taxes, which is most excellent indeed. [smirk]

So, anyway, right after the Great West Coast Ride, I'll start assisting at classes. The training program is in September or October, and then I guess I could start teaching. Apparently an instructor is generally obliged to teach a class a month, in order for the instructing company to get their money's worth from them. That should be doable.