bigpoppa
Well-known member
(This is just my experience and perspective, so take it with a grain of salt)
So I spend the last week doing what could be considered mild offroading, mostly unintentionally when i was feeling adventurous, i ended up taking the street bike, with street tires, and standard(not lowered) tire pressure into some dirt, gravel, fire roads, double track
and BOY was it AWESOME!!
Mostly because I couldn't believe afterwards how much it improves your riding skill...
After spending some time offroad, your confidence, feel (and by extension skill) on the road improve TREMENDOUSLY!
After you feel your bike/tires constantly slipping around under you , your tires constantly losing/gaining traction and grip, your rear wheel locking up as you go down a big dirt hill because instead of modulating and pumping your rear brake, you stomped on it....the sheer amount of confidence and FEEEEL you get on the road is insane...
I know some of the veterans feel in ontario they should have an licensing system perhaps like the Europeans, but Id say its probably better to implement a system where for the first little bit you HAVE to start on a dirt/dualsport...my god, in addition to being ridiculously fun, it would probably make everyone a better and more skilled rider
I am by no means an expert on the offroad, but MAN this was just too awesome not to share...(feel like i discovered electricity or something)
Feel free to share your thoughts
So I spend the last week doing what could be considered mild offroading, mostly unintentionally when i was feeling adventurous, i ended up taking the street bike, with street tires, and standard(not lowered) tire pressure into some dirt, gravel, fire roads, double track
and BOY was it AWESOME!!
Mostly because I couldn't believe afterwards how much it improves your riding skill...
After spending some time offroad, your confidence, feel (and by extension skill) on the road improve TREMENDOUSLY!
After you feel your bike/tires constantly slipping around under you , your tires constantly losing/gaining traction and grip, your rear wheel locking up as you go down a big dirt hill because instead of modulating and pumping your rear brake, you stomped on it....the sheer amount of confidence and FEEEEL you get on the road is insane...
I know some of the veterans feel in ontario they should have an licensing system perhaps like the Europeans, but Id say its probably better to implement a system where for the first little bit you HAVE to start on a dirt/dualsport...my god, in addition to being ridiculously fun, it would probably make everyone a better and more skilled rider
I am by no means an expert on the offroad, but MAN this was just too awesome not to share...(feel like i discovered electricity or something)
Feel free to share your thoughts