Trailworld off road school and tour - St Albans

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

Well, I started off the day by being an hour late after some numbnuts crashed and got the M1 closed. The day was bought for me by my gf Claire last christmas and I'd saved it until now to do it, so I'd get the best weather.

The venue was just off of j9 of the M1, right next to a shooting club, and close to the motorway and Luton airport (no problems making noise then).

The day was advertised as being split into two parts, a school in the morning where you learn some off road skills, and a tour around the locality in the afternoon.

All on either a Yam WR250 or a Honda CRF230. When I arrived both the WRs were gone (they're slightly bigger).

The venue didn't look much, but this part was only the 'school'.

https://www.gaz-racing.co.uk/images/trackday_520.JPG

The school took place right at the very far end. Basically we rode around a small track, rode around some tyres, learnt about weighting pegs, and the standing position. (You stand a lot more upright than I was expecting! I needed a bigger bike tbh the bars were too low).

Then we did some wheel locking, first rear wheel then front wheel. The instructor pissed about doing huge wheelies.

Then we had some lunch and went out on the green lanes. And boy that was fun! It wasn't too muddy, but there were some very rutted, rocky, rooty etc green lanes. It was amazing fun. The bikes were plenty capable.

Then whilst happily riding along a green lane I saw a sign saying "Ford", I looked up and saw the instructor was riding through what I can only describe as a well established river! Oh well in I go!! Water well up over my knees. Throttle wide open, just trying to keep going. We did 4 fords in all, got absolutely soaked and it was amazing.

And today I ache like absolute buggery. There were 4 others in the group. One guy in his 50s, 2 in their 40s and a guy in his late 20s.

I managed to not fall off once, which part of me thinks I wasn't trying hard enough.

Now I'm very tempted to try and road register the KX, or get a road legal one. Off roading is cracking!

https://www.gaz-racing.co.uk/images/trackday_522.JPG

(My bike is the one at this end).

Gaz

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Hazylogic · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Karma :

sounds great how much did it set her back?

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

I think it was about £200.

I think my lack of falling off was down to extreme skill.
I had some very very hairy moments. But I just sort of pointed it where I wanted to go and held the throttle open. And it was just luck that every time the bike sorted itself out and got me there.

Gaz