GS Training With Académie Ridaventure

I did a one day off-road skills training event with Claude Gagné of Académie Ridaventure (not to be confused, I think, with the ridaventure.ca forums) organized through Ottawa Motorrad / Ottawa Goodtime Centre. This event was significantly more "hardcore" vs. the event from the previous weekend. All "level 1 GS" content but included forest single track on slippery / muddy trails and a dirt bike track with both deep sand and deep mud sections.

As I've mentioned before, I'm a novice with no experience with other off-road tires, but I was very happy with the results. There was much falling down but I never got stuck. Fell over in the deep mud and deep sand but powered out of both no problem. Likewise on a hill climb with deep sand. Just gave it the beans and away I went. Front wheel tracked very well, rear had a tons of traction under all conditions.

And my new Touratech crash bars have been thoroughly tested and passed with flying colours.

The guy in the first photo is not me ... someone helping me pick the beast up.