Are you a self-taught adventure rider? To some degree, most riders are probably at least somewhat self-taught. You may have taken some classes along the way—and a lot of us took the MSF Basic RiderCourse at some point. While those courses have good stuff to teach, they can’t teach us everything. A lot of motorcycle riding is experiential, and we learn it simply by spending more time in the saddle.
That’s exactly why experienced adventure riding instructor Bret Tkacs makes videos like this one. Here, he breaks down two of the most common mistakes that he sees self-taught ADV riders making—and tells us in detail how to fix them.