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Hi all, Thanks for this great response on a very important subject like this . Well to me anyway. I can not ask for more comments they are all good and just what I like .• Dave you mentioned your other half. My Wife loves riding with me too. Ilze did the pillion training course with me it helped a lot she is more relaxed since then. She even goes off road with me and she even came off with me but she loves it. • Dean BMW bikes are big but it can be done. When I did the Off-Road training in SA it was on my Dakar and on the same course there were riders on 1200 GS’s and 1150 av’s you should see what they managed to do on those big bikes . Must be honest I’ll prefer a smaller bike 400/450• Waza It does not have to be BMW’s only. I only mentioned BMW because most of us own one ore more ( I only wish for another one ) and that way the trainer can introduce us to what our bikes are capable of. They also teach you some technical stuff about your bike therefore it should be a BMW mac what can a Kawa or Yami mac teach my of my BMW? We were taught how to set the suspension ,how to replace a wheel and set the tension on your chain if you have one , how to drain water from your engine when your bike drowned etc, etc …• Pete You are right cone work is important and good. I just bought 10 450mm cones today got them from NZ Safety.I am going to start training in my own so long until someone comes and join me. I will practice the figure 8 and Left , Right full lock turn and do some zigzag through the cones. Seems like you’re the man to know . How about putting together something small for us then we invite one of our BMW mechanics togive us some basic quick bush fix training and we can go with more confidence. How does a 2day training session sound Meet Friday eve ,Saturday and ½ of Sunday and the other ½ we do some off road some ware here close to Auckland to try it out. It’ll be fun I already have the cones. Who votes for that? Have a think about it and lets see where it goes Cheers Hentie.