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==Rider training==

[[File:Keith Code at California Superbike School at controls of Honda CBR600RR with rider.jpg|thumb|upright |left |Code coaching a rider]]

Code founded the California Superbike School in 1980. The school has taught numerous championship winning riders such as [[Wayne Rainey]], [[James Toseland]] and [[Leon Camier]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Holmstrom |first=Darwin |title=Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGrp5Pjsf4UC&pg=PA306&dq=%22Keith+Code%22 |accessdate=2008-01-20 |year=2001 |publisher=Alpha Books |isbn=0-02-864258-9 |page=306 }}</ref> As of 20092019, riders who have been trained either at his schools or by him personally have won 60 world and national racing championships. His teaching has been spread all over the world.<ref name=telegraph/> His California Superbike Schools have operated at over 90 tracks worldwide in 15 countries and have trained 150,000 riders.

In 2006 he was tasked by the [[United States Marine Corps]] to design a rider training program that would be effective in reducing serious motorcycle accidents among USMC riders. The program, called Advanced Motorcycle Operator School, is now considered the "gold Standard" of rider training by Marine safety personnel due to its graduates' extraordinary safety record over a four-year period.<ref>{{Cite document|url=http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/seashore/smartride/Smart_Ride09.pdf |title=Smart Ride |date=Spring 2009 |publisher=[[Navy Occupational Safety & Health|US Navy Safety Center]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324213109/http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/seashore/smartride/Smart_Ride09.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-24 |df= }}</ref>