Kansas Motorcycle Safety Course
Verified against Kansas Approved Motorcycle Driver's Education Schools ·
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Whether Kansas mandates a motorcycle safety course by age is not published by the state's own program. This page covers who runs the course, what it costs, how long it takes, and exactly which tests completing it can waive.
Kansas's motorcycle safety course requirements — including completion waiving the state skills test — are verified against Kansas Approved Motorcycle Driver's Education Schools (see K.S.A. 8-240(a)(2)-(3) (motorcycle safety training exemption from written and driving tests)), current as of 2026-07-28.
Kansas Motorcycle Safety Course at a Glance
| Program | Kansas Approved Motorcycle Driver's Education Schools |
|---|---|
| Who runs it | Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles, Driver's Education section, which approves and lists both commercial motorcycle schools and community college motorcycle training programs |
| Delivery model | State-approved sponsorsThe state licenses sponsors, who set their own tuition; the rider picks among them at market price. |
| Typical cost | — |
| Course length | — |
| Mandatory under age | — |
| Waives the riding skills test | Yes |
| Waives the knowledge test | Yes |
K.S.A. 8-240(a)(2) exempts a Class M applicant who has completed prior motorcycle safety training under Department of Defense Instruction 6055.04 or the Motorcycle Safety Foundation from further written and driving testing, on providing a copy of the completion form to the Division before the license is issued; the statute states no age limit and no currency window on this exemption. The Department of Revenue's own approved-schools list names four commercial providers — Motorcycle Rider Education (Wichita), Motorcycle Rider University (Hays), Rawhide Harley-Davidson Riding Academy (Olathe) and Twister City Motorcycles (Park City) — alongside community-college programmes at Butler County Community College and Cloud County Community College. Each sets its own tuition and schedule; none is centrally priced by the state.
What Kansas’s course covers
Kansas teaches the Basic RiderCourse (BRC), developed by Motorcycle Safety Foundation. Full detail here.
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic RiderCourse is designed for beginning riders aged 16 and up, pairing about five hours of classroom or online learning with about ten hours of on-motorcycle training, and it ends in a written knowledge test and a rider skills test.
Once you complete the course, see license requirements in Kansas.
Source Notes
Where a source is stale, conflicting, or required a judgment call, we document it here rather than presenting a single confident-sounding number. See our methodology for how these calls are made.
- License, permit and fee rules come from the Kansas Statutes Annotated, chapter 8, as published by the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Training facts come from the Kansas Department of Revenue's list of approved motorcycle driver's education schools. Helmet and eye-protection rules come from the Kansas Statutes' motorcycle-equipment section.
- Kansas prices the Class M license by the applicant's age at issue — $12.50 for ages 21 through 64, $9 from 65, $20 under 21 — rather than as one flat fee.
- Kansas requires a Class M motorcycle instruction permit holder to ride accompanied by an experienced Class M license holder at every age, not only while under 18, which differs from most other states' permit rules.
means no primary source publishes that figure — left blank on purpose rather than estimated or copied from an unverified aggregator.
Sources
Data last verified: 2026-07-28 (verified by: agent) | Source: K.S.A. 8-240(a)(2)-(3) (motorcycle safety training exemption from written and driving tests)