BAMT Standby Fee

Usually coming back as standby student is the cheapest and fastest way to finish your class.  If you come early and often, you can usually finish your class within a week.

The state gives you 60 days to finish your class, but BAMT gives you 6 months to come back as a standby in the hope that you will use it to practice before you go on the street with your own bike.

Even though BAMT gives you 6 months, you will still have to complete all potions of your class IN ORDER and WITHIN 60 DAYS.

Standby works as a LAST MINUTE waitlist.  Students arrive early to the class they would like to get into to see if there is a last minute open seat created by late or otherwise unprepared students that are registered for that class, so unfortunately the office is NOT able to give notice when there might be openings ahead of time.

Please do NOT use the number of open spots in a class to determine if you should try to get in as a standby, since we may reduce the seats or cancel it altogether if there are too many open spots to run it.  On top of having more students and therefore more potential for a spot to be available for a standby student, a class is much more likely to run if it is sold out than if there are a lot of open seats in it.

You may also choose to pay for a confirmed first riding session or second riding session instead of coming back as a standby student.  Confirmed seat availability changes constantly, so please check these links often.

Generally locations that have the most students coming at once have a higher likelihood of having an open spot.  Since San Francisco usually has the most students coming at once, it usually has the best chance of having an opening, then Alameda/Oakland and then Vallejo.  San Francisco almost always has several open seats.

You must work with the office to get onto the roster as a standby student for each class you are panning to try to get into as a standby, so if you would like to try to get into both the morning and afternoon classes for that day you will need to be added to both the morning and afternoon rosters, and you will need to sign the waivers for both classes BEFORE you arrive.  If you are not on the roster for the class you are trying to get into or your digital waiver is not signed, you are not be eligible to be let into that class even if there is an open spot.

If you are not prepared to join the class immediately, you may not be let into class, so have everything ready to go IN HAND.  If you do not have your digital waiver signed BEFORE you get to the class, ID and gear ready to give/show the instructor during check in you may not be let into class and/or the next standby that is actually prepared may be let into class instead, so be sure to have everything required ON YOUR PERSON(NOT in your car, for instance) and ready to go as soon as you arrive  Every instructor has a different process, so please do not bother to check in if you are not fully prepared.

This standby fee is non-refundable and not transferable, and is only offered to students that have already paid in full for a confirmed seat with Bay Area Motorcycle Training within the year.  By paying this standby fee you are agreeing to abide by the conditions above.  Please contact us if you have any questions.