How We Will Do This
The Program
On an average day in the United States, 17 riders die and 226 are seriously injured — and that has been true, decade after decade. Our aim is to drive those numbers toward zero. This page explains how.
Start With the Real Cause
Motorcycles have never been safer. Brakes, tires and electronics have all improved enormously, and yet the crash statistics have barely moved. That tells us the machine was never the weak point. The rider is the part nobody ever finished training.
Most riders in the US are effectively self-taught — a weekend course to get the license, a few tips from friends, then years of trial and error on public roads. So the program goes after the rider's skill, deliberately and in order.
Explain, Demonstrate, Practice
Every skill is taught the same way, as a curated video lesson in three parts. First we explain the skill and why it matters. Then we demonstrate it done properly, close up and at real speed. Then we set you up to practice it on purpose, rather than hoping you happen to get it right on the road.
The lessons build on one another, so a brand-new rider and a rider with thirty years of habits both have somewhere sensible to start.
See it for yourself. Here is a sample lesson from the teaching series, exactly as every rider gets it — free, complete, and nothing held back. This one teaches a basic skill, from the beginning of the series — the lessons progress all the way to advanced skills.
And here is the practice assignment that goes with it — the drill, the setup, and the exact standard to pass, ready to print and take to the parking lot: the Lesson 1 practice assignment (PDF).
Feedback While You Practice
Watching a lesson is not the same as executing it. That is the gap the technology is built to close.
Coming next: the ThrottleWise app will read your bike's telemetry during practice and coach you — "improve this point" or "you nailed it, next lesson" — so any rider, anywhere, can train on their own schedule, without needing an instructor beside them.
Free, With No Account Required
Every lesson is free to every rider. No account is needed to watch them. A free rider account exists only to hold practice logs and progress history — no account gets better training than any other.
How It Is Paid For
The ThrottleWise nonprofit 501(c)(3) funds one thing: free rider training for everyone, paid for by donations, grants and corporate sponsorship. The training is never gated, never sold, and never held back for a paying tier.
What the $1.5 Million Funding Goal Goes to
Free training still has to be built. Here is what donations pay for, and why the goal is the number it is.
Producing the teaching series. Filming and editing every lesson — the skill explained, demonstrated at real speed, then turned into a practice assignment you can go out and do. Free to every rider, permanently.
Building the practice-feedback technology. This is the single largest cost. It is three pieces of engineering: the app on your phone, the system behind it that holds your practice history, and a telemetry unit on the bike accurate enough to tell good technique from nearly-good technique. That last part is harder than it sounds — a simple tilt sensor cannot read lean angle on a motorcycle that is actually cornering, because the forces in a turn fool it, so it takes precision GPS and motion sensors working together. Planning estimates put the whole technology effort at roughly $400,000 to $1.1 million, with the hardware alone at $250,000–$750,000.
Keeping it free. Hosting, ongoing maintenance and the people who run the organization — costs that never stop, for training that is never sold.
We are spending it in a deliberate order. Rather than pour donations into custom hardware first, we are building the app and proving the entire teaching loop against proven off-the-shelf sensors — roughly $150,000 to $300,000. Riders get working lessons sooner, and we only commit to building our own hardware once real riders have shown us exactly what it needs to do. It is the least expensive way to do the job right.
At the top of those ranges the technology alone approaches $1.1 million. That leaves about $400,000 of the $1.5 million goal still to account for — the part we can describe honestly but cannot yet price to the dollar. Here is exactly what it is.
What the last $400,000 of the goal covers. That balance funds producing the teaching series alongside the engineering, hosting and day-to-day operations across the whole build, and a reserve against a hardware estimate whose own range spans half a million dollars.
An important note. Board members are never paid for serving on the board. Donations pay only the people we hire to build and deploy the teaching series and the technology behind it — and as of today, no one, the founder included, has drawn a salary. When staff pay begins, it is set in advance by the board’s independent directors using the IRS’s recommended process, and it is reported publicly on our annual IRS filing.
For operating costs and other incidentals that come up during the completion of the technology build and teaching series, we would rather say "we do not know yet." Those costs have not been quoted line by line, and until they are we are not going to invent figures to make a total look tidy.
And if it costs less, nothing is wasted. If the technology lands at the bottom of its range, the goal was simply conservative. The difference does not disappear — it becomes more lessons, more riders reached, and more runway before we have to come back and ask again.
These are planning-grade estimates rather than contracted bids. Real numbers will differ, and we will say so plainly as they come in.
What Happens Next
ThrottleWise launched publicly on August 4, 2026. The teaching series comes first, the practice-feedback technology follows. Your donations will fund the completion of the technology to coach every rider, and complete the teaching series, and keep it always free for every rider. Your support will help us permanently change the status quo and save lives!