Off-road experience - which one?

[phatmanace]

I’d like to go and do an off-road experience somewhere in the UK - I’ve looked at honda, triumph and BMW places. I don’t really mind which one I go to, but I’d like them to supply the bike (which I think rules out the Sweet Lamb place, as I think that’s only “BYOB”)

To my untrained eye, the BMW one looks the most advanced, and I’m leaning to the triumph one, rather than Honda - but would love to hear some comments from folks that have been.


I’m a keen mountain biker, but otherwise have zero experience. Really I’d like to get a bit of experience/training of riding a bike on loose/uneven surfaces.

Cheers

[keebz91]

I’ve been on the BMW ‘off road skills’ course and it was brilliant, the big 1200 GSA was fantastic and I loved every minute of it.

Since then I took up Enduro but the skills and experiences are totally different.

If you want to try a road bike off road, you can’t beat the BMW course in Wales… if you want to ride off road properly on a machine designed to do so, look at the smaller enduro bike courses like Dave Thorpe in Wales or on the other side of the country I can highly recommend Off Road Try Out in Suffolk.

[KurtFlew]

I did the Ady Smith KTM day in 2019 at their North Wales location, all the latest enduro bikes to try throughout the day. Was a great day, weather was torrential and the 300tpi bike tried to kill me at every opportunity.

[Nick928]

Mick Extance Experience is very good indeed.
Caters for every skill level and provides all the riding kit and the bikes.
It books quite far in advance but it’s popular for good reason.

[kennydies]

Depends what experience you have I would think
I did the Honda one last year with no off road experience at all. Within a couple of hours we were riding through mud and rivers. Was a lot of fun.
My advise is the hire their gear as well as dust and muck gets absolutely everywhere..

[Alex@POD]

I've only done the Honda one (2 day course), it was an absolute blast. Great instructors, we were split into groups based on ability, it worked really well.

I expect everyone who's only done one will say the same thing though!

[SteelerSE]

Not in the UK but I did my course with letsridespain. The guys there were great though it was aimed much more at proper off road using a KTM350 rather than a bit of gentle trail riding on an offroad capable machine like a GS or similar Tenere.

The nice part about doing this in Spain was the good weather even in January. They're based down in Fuengirola.

https://www.letsridespain.com/