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Off Road Training School Class 1 - Attend or Skip? GEMS and Allan Karl Goes to China

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4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Off-Road Training School - Attend or Skip Class? We look at off-road riding schools beginning with PSSOR this week with Bret Tkacs. Do you really need lessons to ride your adventure bike off road or can you learn through the school of hard knocks. After-all isn't that how the pros learned? Find out on this episode of Adventure Rider Radio. RELATED LINKShttp://pssor.com/pssor-home New Feature: GEMS Our new feature Gems, is a focus on great riding areas or destinations that are not mainstream through the eyes of locals who know them intimately. You need to listen to this so you don't miss some incredible rides as you travel.On this weeks Gem, Spencer Hill shines some light on a great riding and camping area that you have likely ridden right past. It's location? The Pacific NorthWest of the US. RELATED LINKSSpencer Hill www.thegeardude.com Allan Karl Goes to China Allan Karl is the author of FORKS, the book and now he is about to embark on a journey to China to produce a multi episode documentary for television. RELATED LINKShttp://www.allankarl.comhttp://www.worldrider.comhttp://www.qeproductions.ca

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0:00.0

Do you remember when you were a baby and you were sent for walking lessons?

0:07.0

You know when you sat through your first classroom session when they were talking about the techniques and how you're supposed to lift your knee forward.

0:13.0

Wait a second. I never took lessons like that and neither did you.

0:17.0

So it makes you wonder why would you want to take lessons for riding your motorcycle off-road.

0:23.5

Why don't go through the same method

0:24.9

for learning to ride your motorcycle off-road

0:27.1

as you did when you were a kid and you learned a walk.

0:29.0

It's a trial and error.

0:30.2

It's a school of hard knocks.

0:31.4

You ride, you fall, you get up, and you say and say okay that didn't work I'm going to try something else and so goes it until you finally become the perfect off-road rider

0:40.3

Well if that hasn't worked for you yet, this episode may change your idea of what adventure training is all about. On today's episode, we're going to talk about off-road training for your adventure

1:07.7

riding. We're also going to talk with Alan Carl who's doing something brand

1:12.1

new. You'll remember Alan Carl from his book,

1:13.8

Forks, and we've got a brand new segment for you called Jim's. And what we're

1:18.2

going to do with this is we're going to feature one area per episode

1:22.3

anywhere around the world. could be anywhere that is

1:25.4

has something unique about it that's a beautiful place has maybe a historical

1:29.6

value or maybe just a scenery value but something really special about an area, but that's somewhat of a hidden gem.

1:38.0

So something that you wouldn't normally come across, it's not something that's been photographed tons,

1:42.0

it's one of these little pockets that usually

1:44.3

only locals know. And we're going to find those through the locals that live in those areas,

1:48.8

and we're going to let you know about them so the next time you're riding by make a left or right and find a

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