RiderCoaches
Our RiderCoaches are certified by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation and the State of Colorado's MOST program. They aren't just educators, they're seasoned riders, bringing real-world experience to every lesson on the range.
Marisol Ortega
Marisol has coached at Northpoint since it opened and runs the coach roster. She came to motorcycles late, in her thirties, after years of telling friends they were too dangerous, and she still thinks that first Basic RiderCourse was the best money she ever spent.
Senior RiderCoaches
Celeste Marchetti
Celeste raced club-level roadracing for six seasons before a knee injury turned her attention to teaching. She still gets to the track a few times a year and brings what she learns there back to the range, mostly about vision and body position.
Reuben Achebe
Reuben is a retired firefighter who took up motorcycles the week after his last shift. He says the Basic RiderCourse was the first class he had taken in twenty years, and that being bad at something again was good for him.
RiderCoaches
Priya Natarajan
Priya commutes by motorcycle year-round and is Northpoint's resident advocate for riding in weather. She took the Basic course to get her endorsement, came back for the Experienced course a year later, and was coaching within three.
Tomas Lindgren
Tomas grew up around motorcycles in his father's repair shop and can usually tell what is wrong with a bike by listening to it. He rides an old air-cooled twin he has rebuilt twice.
Naomi Castellanos
Naomi came to coaching from teaching high-school physics, and it shows: she explains countersteering with a pencil and a coffee cup and it somehow works. She rides a small adventure bike and camps off it whenever she can.
Kelsey Brandt
Kelsey is Northpoint's newest RiderCoach, certified last season after two years as a range assistant. She rides a 400 and is the loudest voice on the range in favor of small bikes for new riders.
Jordan Feeney
Jordan spent eight years as a motorcycle courier in a city with terrible drivers and considers the Basic RiderCourse street-strategy material the most useful thing anyone ever taught him. He rides a supermoto, badly on purpose, in the dirt on weekends.
Hank Delacroix
Hank has ridden for forty years and coached for the last five, after his daughter took the Basic course and he came along to watch. He rides a cruiser, slowly, and says the range is the only place he still learns something every weekend.