RLC Off-Road Training Day
Shez talked me into having a go at some off-road training as I am still a little rusty after my road accident. So I joined him on one of the Royal Logistics Core''s (RLC) training days held at Abingdon Air Base.
One cold very frosty morning I got up and scraped the snow and ice from my van and loaded the TTR250 onto the trailer. My Dad had decided to come along with me for the day. I expect just so he could laugh at me falling off all the time.
I set off for the first area and only got a short way around the course before my chain broke and I had to push the bike back to the van and borrow kit from people to get the chain back on. After that I set off to catch the second area which was a very hilly motocross track, I gradually built up my confidence but I was still very slow. Then onto the next and this track was much flatter but was quite stony I had the most fun on this one, I even kept some riders behind me for almost a lap. The last area was a enduro course and I met up with Darren Wheeler who I know from photographing Midwest events, I did not get to far before heading back to my van because by then I was getting tired and I also didn''t enjoy the enduro course.
I gave my Dad my camera and he managed to get these shots of one of the RLC's riders showing the rest of us how to fall off correctly.
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I was unaware of how unfit I was for this kind of stuff so I called it a day at the lunch break and headed home. As I was already getting cramp I let my Dad drive home, it was fun to see him trying to change gear in my automatic when we got to roundabouts.
It was a great days riding if not a little frozen.