Registration opens for Motorcycle Safety Forum

Registration is now open for the 2014 Motorcycle Safety Forum.

This rider-focused event is facilitated by Iowa?s motorcycle safety team, a diverse partnership of motorcycle safety advocates; the Iowa Department of Transportation, motorcycle trainers, dealers, and riders.

The forum is April 25, at the Iowa Events Center, Hy-Vee Hall B, in Des Moines from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Register online at www.iowadot.gov/mvd/ods/motorcycle.

Registration is $15 and includes a continental breakfast, lunch, breaks and an opportunity to enter a drawing for an Aluma motorcycle trailer.

Last year?s forum sold-out.

A change in venue for the forum will allow more space for vendor exhibits.

This one-day, interactive forum will feature several presentations, safety displays, an exhibitor tradeshow and other motorcycle-related exhibits.

Presenters include Reggie Showers, Stacey ?Axe? Axemaker, Laura and Kenny Wulf and Slider Gilmore.

There will be be giveaways and a photo booth where participants can have their photo taken with a motorcycle inside the conference center.

Participants are asked to be prepared to share ideas and thoughts with forum committee members and other riders throughout the day.

Throughout the past three years, an average of 43 motorcycles riders or passengers have been killed on Iowa highways.

?All highways deaths are preventable,? said Toni Kerkove, IDOT event organizer. ?By encouraging safe riding behaviors through efforts such as the Motorcycle Safety Forum we can all work together to reach the goal of zero fatalities on Iowa?s roadways.?