Snow riding video tips and more

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Or should I say, "Happy Winter"! Its late January as I write this latest RLR School blog and here in the north east (NJ), we have been getting our share of snow and cold weather. I guess we are making up for all the mild winters we had prior to last winter. Oh well needless to say we have been keeping busy riding and preparing for the up coming racing season and attending local ECEA series banquet. I have been enjoying doing some private schools in between snow storms and setting up and getting aquainted with my new Husaberg 450 FE. We also are excited about some new relationships with new sponsors like VEE RUBBER TIRES, STS MOTORSPORTS, SMITH GOGGLES, and RENTHAL. Also SDR Support has hooked us up with Frank Stacy from FTD (flat tire defender) to do some testing of their new product. This product in my opinion combines tire balls and foam inserts. It is little hockey puck sized foam that you stack closley in your tire like Tire Balls. We will let you know how our testing goes. You can learn more about the product here.

We also just had our friends from Trail Rider Magazine here to do a shootout test between the GASGAS 250 Sstroke and the KTM 250 2stroke. We had some snow to deal with, which it a rather unique test but still a good time on two worthy woods bikes. You can read all about it in the March issue of Trail Rider. Or you can get a sneak peak at what went down by checking out this short video of the test. We mentioned in our latest update of Trail Rider also covering a story of an Advanced School we did with NETRA AA rider Jim Senecal. Well it made it to the February edition and it is a great story with some awesome photos. Thanks Jim and Kevin. You can read the full story here.

As I mentioned earlier, we here are dealing with quite alot of snow. We have been taking advantage of the snow conditions and trying to ride as much as possible and work on fundamentals. I like to attribute riding in snow to riding in mudd. So it is great practice, and good seat time for the upcoming season. But before we go out in the snow conditions, it is good idea to take some precautions to help with your experience a little better. Here is a quick video with some set up tips for snow conditions here.

The more snow riding you do this winter the more prepared you will be. To me riding in nasty weather such as snow or even rain is all about attitude. When bad weather comes most individuals dwell on the toughness in a negative way, rather than focusing on the fact that it will make them a better rider. Try and keep it positive and keep in mind these snow riding tips as far as what to do on the bike to make things a little easier. Check out my snow riding tips video here.

We hope that we here at RLR schools have kept you informed and helped you with your riding. We are always here working to make things easier for you all. If you enjoyed the instructional videos here in this blog, here is a link to the teaser page of my over 46 instructional video tips on my website. These are a much higher quality video and are filled with alot of information.
Keep it pinned, Rich Lafferty

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Hows your winter going so far? We had an awesome holiday, with a Snow storm Christmas night laying some eight plus inches on south jersey and had to postpone some schools because of. But then once New Years day rolled around temps were in the low 50 degree range and allowed for some trail riding with a few good friends. Surprisingly because of the high temps it was a great day of trail riding. The warmth made the snow part very easily and wasnt really that deep in spots. If you have never rode in the snow, it is definately good practice for bike and throttle control. Since then we had some rain and unseasonably warm temps that have melted mostly all the snow and left some really good moist dirt. Great for schools and getting back to riding. As mentioned we just last month did a school with Trail Rider Magazine editor Kevin Novello. It turned out to be an awesome school and you can read about it here just as it appeared in Trail Rider.







Adjusting controls on a students bike in my garage. Below is a shot of my pride and joy, my 12 year old son Ryder playing on the figure eight drill, and Novello caught a great pic of him.
Up next we have a Trail Rider Magazine school with passed NETRA Champion Jim Senecal. We will let you know how it went down and some pics and link to the full story. It should be fun. According to Senecal, he has never done any schooling in the passed and is eager to get some help with his corner speed. I am eager to help and looking forward to it.
Below,Ryder caught a video of me going down the sluice at Deleware Enduro in 2010. Check it out.

Happy New Year! What we been up to!

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How is everyone? Its been awhile. WE have been extremely busy here at RLR schools conducting private one on one lessons. We have been helping some local guys from the ECEA, and even other series, that do Hare Scrambles, Enduro, and even some guys that just want to learn some stuff so they can stay with their buddies while Trail Riding. Here are just a few pictures of guys and gals we have done schools with recently. Can you name the guy in the first one here above?Yes sir, thats Speeds Dave Despain. Dave contacted me after having knee replacement surgery and has found a new youth and enthusiasm for trail riding. He was into improving his bike control and staying off the ground less. We spent two days together and Dave has a good base of fundamentals skills and was extremely happy as was I, in our progress. Next is Thad Gilder from Elmer, NJ. Thad bought a KTM 400 off me about a month prior and wanted to do a class. We had fun and now have him on the right track and I am confident he will be at top of B SENIOR class very soon. Under Thads picture we have a picture of Sarah Gaffney from Pine Grove, Pa. who is totally new to off-road racing and is hooked on Hare Scramble racing. Sarah says she watched a supercross on T.V. and after that she went out and purchased a motorcycle and had competed in 4 races prior to coming and doing a private school all in about a 4 month time frame. She is very determined to be a leader in the womans class at any Hare Scramble she attends.








Thats all we have for now, we are lining up some schools with Trail Rider Magazines Kevin Novello, who is the new editor of the mag and a local NETRA AA rider as well.
Keep it twisted, Rich Lafferty



PS. Here is a brief video of the sluice from Deleware Enduro 2010