I adventured out to Oklahoma to capture Ben and his crew from DART Moto in action teaching his full curriculum, Levels 1-3 and shop day. I have previously taken DART’s Level 1-2 and had to tell his story! This is some of the best training you can get in the Adventure Motorcycle arena, or heck just a motorcycle in general.

Level 1

Level 1 kicks off with a heavy focus on the 4 DART pillars of riding. Balance, Control, Judgement, & Attitude. Learning the balance point of your bike and why it’s important, Friction zone, picking up your bike, and easily unloading your motorcycle from a truck bed are just some of the few things tought in the morning. The afternoon is filled with skill building on those core principles. Starting and stopping with deliberate control and cone weave to understand how weighting the pegs influences the direction of the motorcycle. Mind you these are just cliff notes, you cover a lot more than this in class but I do not want this blog to be an hour read, but a 30,000 ft view. Level 1 truly sets you up for success in Level 2 and I am speaking from experience. I am no pro level rider more intermediate but I love training the fundamentals like you do in Level 1. Level 1 has time set aside for bike setup like lever position. Simple things like having a straight wrist while stranding will reduce fatigue and increase control.

Level 2

Level 2 is a full two days of non stop learning and execution. If you took Level 1 this will take those skills to the next level. The foundation never changes, Balance, Control, Judgement, & Attitude. Each drill builds more and more on those pillars.

Emergency braking exercises really show you what you and your machine are capable of when you need to shut it down hard and fast!

Another exercise is making the rut your road. During your adventures you will absolutely encounter ruts that will force you to decide, ride in the rut making it your road or taking the middle ground or shoulder.

Another guarantee on your adventures is you will meet a log you will need to cross. The technique taught makes crossing them easy and plus you just look so cool, style points x1000.

Ever stalled on a steep hill? I think we have all been there. DART teaches a great technique to get the bike turned around safely and easily so you can get another run at it. During this exercise they also teach how to get the bike going from your stalled position if you want to take a run from there. I always try to take a stab at getting going from the stalled position before descending and going again. Why not right!

These are just a few of the exercises you will cover with DART in Level 2. Each exercise continues to build the skills need to conquer everything! Balance. Control. Judgement. Attitude.

My favorite part is the free ride portion. Instructors will ride with you across the property hitting all exercises and obstacles. SO MUCH FUN!

Level 3

Day 1 of Level 3 is a full day of ROCKS and it is so much fun. I won’t lie if I had not ridden several passes in Colorado a few months prior I would have been a little intimidated by this. What I liked about it is that its like sections of Colorado rocks. You’ll be on a chill trail that turns super rocky but only for a short section, unlike Colorado that is never ending rocks. We also stopped at an overlook before lunch that if you showed me the pictures I would have told you that there is no way that is Oklahoma!

Day 2 of Level 3 is a jump head first into sand. Growing up in Central Florida I was use to riding sand on a MX bike not on my 450lb Tenere. But let’s get after it! You will cover recovery tactics first. Getting the bike going before it’s bottomed out and also recovery once it is. The sand here is very interesting it has sections with a very hard bottom and literally no bottom. Very challenging but that is the best way to learn the skills needed to navigate sand.

A little bonus to training sand by the river is an added layer of water crossings. Students got the opportunity to apply the skills learned to safely and easily cross water.

Shop Day

A bonus class that DART offers is shop day. This gives students an opportunity to work or learn to work on their own bikes. The shop is a real cool spot and is a great layer to the training curriculum.

I can’t recommend DART Moto and the work Ben and his crew are doing enough. Get training! It not only makes you safer but it makes you more capable which in turn allows you to enjoy the ride more instead of just trying to survive.

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