Instructors

Any riding school can provide track time and many schools have good instructors. But Fishtail Riding School has great instructors who really care about helping students and are willing to provide the individual attention that really makes a difference.  Unfortunately most of them are quite bashful, so when I ask them for pictures, they keep sending me pictures of them riding their bikes.  The end result is these could all be imposters.  Go figure . . .


  1. Matt Foskett

    Matt Foskett Matt is one of our classroom instructors, and he's been riding track days for over 20 years now.  He started in 1986 with a VFR 500, and graduated up to his first European bike, a Ducati 900SS, in '97.  He may look old and slow, but that's only because he actually is.  On the plus side, he runs one of the best interactive classrooms I've ever seen.  Here he is running around the track with his son Kenny on the back.  It turns out Kenny is the only one in the Foskett family that knows his way around the track, so we send him out on the back to make sure Matt can find his way back to the pits.


  2. Mike Dube

    Mike Dube Mike Dube is another guy that’s been around instructing forever.  He got the racing bug a few years ago and has since won a national #1 plate.  He tends to bring 2 bikes with him to our track days, his track bike and his Ducati ST4 with the suspension tweaked for 2-up riding.  Want to see the track from a different perspective?  Mike will be happy to haul you around on the back seat.  By the way, he’s the old guy in the picture, not the young, good looking one.


  3. Steve Doody

    Steve Doody Steve Doody grew up on the south shore of Boston. He’s a high school sports hall of famer. But don’t worry, he got old just like the rest of us anyway.  As you can tell from the picture, he has some weird aversion to fairings, probably dating back to the late 70s when he raced flat track at Bryar Motorsport Park.  Now he gets his jollies racing Formula Fossil (50) where he won the championship in 2007.  When he’s not earning money to pay for his hobbies, you can find him leading students around with us or racing as an expert at NHMS.

    Thomas Patch

    Thomas Patch Architect, helicopter flight instructor, and sometime-racer at Loudon, Thomas also teaches for the Connecticut DOT motorcycle safety program, and he is the creator of our new Suspension Workshop. In a quest to master all things two-wheeled, he has managed to ride at just about every top riding school in the country, sometimes multiple times a year.  With all that going on, why does he contribute to Fishtail?  Because he is dedicated to motorcycle safety, and  he genuinely enjoys working with the students.  We're very excited about what he has brought to our program.


  4. Wes Robichaud

    Wes Robichaud Wes is another Fishtail old timer.  He started riding as a young tike way back in 1972 on a Harley Shortster (think Honda Gorilla but with more testosterone). 
    At some point Bruce Meyers told him people would start questioning his manhood if he didn't start riding something cool, so he bought his first Ducati.  Now he's a certified track day junkie, but more importantly he's one of the best communicators we've ever seen.  Spend the day working with Wes and he'll make you so smooth only half of the stories you tell later will be lies. 
    Oh, and by the way, he's not actually moving in this picture; we propped him up with some cinder blocks and a 2X4 so it would look good.  Apparently he's too bashful to show his face.