Pure Dirt Tours

[Grashopper]

I've been wanting to give this dirtbiking thing ago for quite a while, but without any clue about what I'm doing, no gear and no bike, nothing ever came out of that. Best I've done so far was taking the little Spada on a ProRider gravel riding course to the Nikau Caves, which was scary lol, but so much fun.

So I decided to treat myself to some dirtbiking with these guys http://www.puredirttours.co.nz, who are based just outside of Rotorua. So this morning the Hornet and I went off to Rotovegas.

They provided all the gear and the bike, so I pretty much just had to turn up. There were only two other people there with me, so that was great (for me at least :-). We went onto an easier round track first, then on a bit harder one. The ground was mostly solid, but there are some sandy bits you can go around. At the end we went up the farm hills for a wee bit. That was brilliant.

Anyway, I didn't fall. Yay. (Probably because I was so slow lol) and it was a hell of a lot of fun.

Just leaving this out here, in case someone else is in the same situation than me. From what I've heard from the sand pit, this here is much nicer ground to learn on, too. And as a side note, they generally have deals on book me if anyone is interested.

[nzspokes]

Its a bit of fun for sure.

[gsp0702]

Had a morning with Merv at Pure Dirt Tours just before Xmas and it was thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours, learn't some new stuff, first time offroad for me on a bike after 20 odd years of road riding, and first time my lad had ridden a bike himself rather than just being a pillion passenger. Weather was great, had fun on the two different paddock circuits whilst everyone got upto speed and then some serious fun on the trail ride. I would definitely recommend, only downside is that it has got me thinking about an offroad bike.