Ady Smith Weekend Offroading

alliamc · Nearly there... Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Karma :

I have to say I would highly recommend this to anyone that wants to go offroad biking, borrow someone elses kit and bike, get to try out loads of different sized bikes and learn to slide properly!!

I'll add some of the photos from my dirty weekend Smile

I'm still aching!!
Ady Smith teaches you loads of basic skills at first, then it gets harder with learning to spin the bike and slide it correctly. We went for rides around the land testing loads of different scenarios, going through mud, ruts, over logs and at the end of the weekend got to try some jumps too.
You will fall off a million times! We all did, but everyone was in high spirits for the whole weekend, and the mud and puddles were so deep!!!
Usually it's in Wales, but we managed to book it for 10 people to do it in Eastbourne.

One of the bikes at the end of the weekend
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Ady showing us how it's done properly
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The perfect size bike, the only one I could get both feet down on the ground with!
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My actual bike for most of the weekend, although I also tried out the 125 two-stroke and the 300 two-stroke
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Ady after he had finished playing
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Me after many swimming lessons in the muddiest bits! I look dry but I really wasn't!
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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

So, when you getting your own off roader? Smile

How much did it cost, if you don't mind me asking and do they cater for riders of different abilities?

Wouldn't mind doing some decent off road training at some time, but a lot seem to mostly be aimed at newer riders and while I'm far, far from being a dirty-god, I've got some confidence at least.

Oh and the position on your bike isn't far off how I have to sit on my CCM when it's on the side stand too ... interesting when you're trying to get on it while sliding down a slope Smile

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alliamc · Nearly there... Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Karma :

I stalled going over a log and found I had no feet! It's amazing what you can recover though.
The whole weekend was £260 and to be honest I thought it was quite hard as a beginner but the teaching is good, and personally I couldn't do the spins because of my short legs so he taught me to get off the bike and spin it Thumbs Up

By the end of the weekend you get to ride around loads of tracks and that's when Ady and his staff show just how fast they go while you go around, no-one could keep up with them. I'd say they could definitely work well with more advanced offroaders, I think they'd like the challenge!
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Jenks · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 May 2006 Karma :

sounds good! do u have any details for it?!
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Wave2k · G's Stalker Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Karma :

looks like fun, id much rather crash someone elses bike.
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alliamc · Nearly there... Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Karma :

I think everyone snapped at least one brake lever by the end of the weekend. The trick at the start of the day was to pick the bike with the most full levers Smile

of course, I was so ickle I got to keep my bike most of the weekend, and therefore only broke the clutch lever about half an hour before we packed up... and I did it in a puddle?! Not sure how it snapped on mud but it did! I had a moment where something hit me in the neck when I lost the bike in a slide, whatever it was that poked my neck I was just grateful it bent and didn't impale me!!
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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

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I've been having naughty thought about buying a 450EXC so might have to give something like this a go and get it out of my system.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Pah, I could swear I've seen several people doing Weston beach race in business suits, so that's no excuse Smile

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alliamc · Nearly there... Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Karma :

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I'm in the vid getting interviewed a few minutes in!! I didn't know I sounded so cockney, hahahaha. These guys were filming us on day one when we were shit! All the best stuff was on day 2, it was muddier and we actually had a better idea of what we were supposed to be doing with the bikes!
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