Motorcycle Explorer November 2016 Issue 14 | Page 74

How To: trail riding golden rules
If you’ve been trail riding for a
number of years, you’ll be aware
that far from the laid back
recreational pursuit it pretends to
be, the sport is riddled with
unwritten rules. There’s rafts of
do’s and do not’s that exist in
every club and you’ll only know
from riding with those guys
through good times and bad. Or
maybe when you inadvertently
cross a line and get a stony silence
and faintly embarrassed shuffling
of Alpinestars…
TOP 10 RULES OF
TRAIL RIDING
So in an effort to get things out in the open and avoid those trail rife faux-pas, we’ve complied our top ten
list of those trail riding rules for your reading pleasure. Ignore them at your peril newbies and old timers
….