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This looks like a great option thanks Cycledude Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice work Tortured. I really like the carbon fiber look on this. I see it comes with install hardware but is there any modification to the bike needed to get it installed? What does it bolt on to?

I was excited to see on the MSF website that an ADVRC class is listed with the dirt bike courses. But like you said it is not available yet, or at least not within 500 miles of KC. Maybe there's just no instructors available yet in the area. If you want to take it on it would be worth the ride...

Thanks for the heads up on the ABS and TCS, I will search the forum for the tricks you mentioned. I have a lot to learn about the bike and did not know the ABS could not be (easily) turned off. I plan to get a manual for the bike too and from reading the forum it looks like yamahapubs.com is the...

Thanks Checkswrecks, I did take the BRC in the Fall and signed up for a BRC2 class this Spring which will be on pavement. I was just hoping others may have attended one of the adventure bike training courses and could comment on whether it was worth it to them for off-pavement experience. From...

Has anyone attended one of the rider training courses recently? I read at the beginning of this thread that phplemel got a lot out of the rawhyde course back in 2012. I don't know what it cost then but it is now $1500. The training with Bill Dragoo that gunner mentioned is now $600 and Dusty...

Thanks Rob, I went to the University of Wales, Swansea on exchange for a year. Beautiful country, loved Cardiff castle.

I haven't tried the black tape fix yet but I had an uncle that drove his Honda that way for years. :)

Good day everybody! After many years away from riding (grew up riding Suzuki dirt bikes and dad's '82 Silverwing) I new something wasn't complete in my life. I took the BRC planning to get a shadow or other cheaper road bike until I started reading about the "new to me" adventure bike genre. A...