Intro to Adv Off-road Training

Do you want to improve your adventure bike experience? Off road skills can be useful even if you are not interested in becoming a dirt rider.  Sometimes you find dirt in unexpected places and you will need to navigate this terrain.   As an additional bonus, it is a recognized fact that dirt skills improve your street riding.

Many of our National Parks have some of their most incredible natural wonders at the end of a dirt road. Let's use Death Valley National Park as an example. Death Valley is America's second largest national park, but it sports only 150-miles of paved roads, while there are over 1100-miles of dirt roads. Imagine that...in actuality, almost all of Death Valley's most incredible views and natural wonders are 10 to 30-miles into the back country on rough, dirt roads.

For additional perspective, consider this fact: more than 95% of the world's roads are unpaved. Just to prove the point here are a few statistics from some of the great places in the world to visit.

The U. S. has more than a third of its infrastructure unpaved. We have about 4.5 million miles of roadways in the U.S. and nearly 1.3 million miles are dirt roads and trails. Who says there’s no place to ride?

In our "Intro to Adventure" program  we will teach you a series of "building-block" skills which will get you comfortable with the basics of riding off road.

INTRO TO ADVENTURE TRAINING WILL INCLUDE:

• Bike Setup
• An introduction to dirt riding techniques
• Body position for effective off-road riding
• Throttle, brake, and clutch techniques (requires more finesse than street riding).
• Weight-shifting techniques for steering.
• Balance techniques
• Turning techniques using counterbalancing.
• How to control front and rear wheel skids.
• Hard acceleration technique on dirt and gravel.
• Hill climbing & traction control.
• Descending steep hills in a controlled manner.
• How to recover from a stall on a steep hill.

We will meet at Denny's in Patterson, CA (15001 Rogers Road ) @ 8:30am and ride as a group to the training facility

Lunch, snacks, and water are provided during the event