Designated as a: "Preferred Off-Road Eductional Center" by the All Terrain Vehicle Association (ATVA) and American Motorcycle Association (AMA)
ATV Classes for the Recreational Rider
| ATV Recreational Training Overview | ATV-Beginner | ATV-Intermediate
| ATV-Expert | ATV-Double Expert | | ATV-Private | Prices |
| Who is an Expert? |
- Yes, you ride well, but would youlove to be able to ride with even greater ease and efficiency? Would you like to learn some techniques and tricks that will make the sport even easier, more fun, and safer?
- Do you know how to find poorly marked trails?
- Have you ever come upon two trees that forgot to measure the width of your ATV before they grew up?
- Have you ever used too much front brake?
- Do you know when to sit and when to stand while riding?
| About the Class |
To ensure you can immediately apply everything you are taught in actual riding situations, 98 percent of this class is taught on actual trails similar to those you will ride in the future. Note: You will also be taught any of the skills from the Beginning and Intermediate classes that you have not yet mastered.
Click here to learn more about your Senior Instructor, Bill Uhl.
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Class Content |
- Participate in a test of your skill level. (We need to know what you already know so you receive the maximum benefits from your investment in the course.)
- Expert skills are taught with greater speed at the same time that riders maintain safety for themselves and other visitors to the forest.
- Skill development
- Turning around in tight quarters without dismounting
- Rocks at speed
- Switchbacks
- Climbing turn
- Platform turn
- Reverse switchback
- For each of the above, you will learn up and down hill approaches as well as left and right turns.
- Advanced side hills, including what to do when there is little or no trail tread
- Riding standing up and sitting down while steering with your feet
- How to use weight distribution to your advantage
- Throttle control
- Save your butt by knowing when to brake and when to gas it
- Discover what Bill Uhl, the trail designer, has learned about finding lost trails
- When to go slow to go fast
- How to be gentle with your equipment by riding lightly on your wheels
- How to tread lightly
Classes are normally limited to ten students.
For class cost information, please refer to the standard price matrix. You can enroll in one and two-day classes.
To start learning how to have more fun on the trail, contact us directly at:
OHV Training™
1121 Bunker Creek Rd.
Chehalis, WA 98532 USA
EMAIL: classes@OHVtraining.org