Well the May course is underway. We had our classroom session last night at Duncan Motorsports and Paul and I are heading out to the new site in Chemainus to set up for day 1 of the riding. Great group with a real mix of bikes so should be fun as always. Everyone is looking forward to getting out there. Thanks again to Don & Natalie from Duncan Motorsports for the use of the shop and for catering the riding sessions Saturday and Sunday. See you out there.
** !! WOW, After much work we now have a new facility secured for the Training Courses for 2010.
The new location is in Chemainus and is a great facility. We are now working with the owners to select courses dates. Our initial thought is we may offer some courses at the Chemainus location and a course or 2 at Ogden Point as well. The Ogden Point courses would have to be Sun-Mon or Mon-Tues course so we will see what riders appetite is for those types of dates. But for the year that is all we can get from Ogden Point.
The new location is bigger and completely fenced and secure and will make the training a better experience. We are also talking to Don Hatton at Duncan Motorsports about possibly catering the courses to offer something for lunches and breaks as the only food in that area is the Hidaway restaurant. We will let everyone know how that works out.
So thanks again for everyone being so patient with us and we hope to have course dates out to everyone soon.
Weathers great, lets ride
Ryan
Just an update on our over sea’s training venture. We have run into some difficulty with our Visa Applications, a paperwork mistake that is not a big deal, but means we have to re-submit our entire application. Unfortunately this is going to likely push this trip from the late March time frame we had anticipated and we will have to re-schedule hopefully for April/May time frame. We continue to work on this exciting adventure to provide training in other parts of the world. I will continue to try to keep everyone updated on our progress.
Cheers
Ryan
Ryan and I have been furiously working with our friends Taher and Thamer to take Advanced Rider Training to the Middle East. Our plan is to head over to Saudi for two weeks, and instruct 2-3 three day courses for civilian riders. We owe many thanks to Taher and Thamer for assisting with this project. We are both looking forward to the time over there. It will be my first time, but as many of you know, Ryan grew up there. Keep looking back for updates and many pictures afterwards.
Advanced Rider Training sends out a prayer to the families of the 4 officers killed in Lakewood, Washington last week. Ryan is currently headed down to Lakewood on the Police motorcycle to assist with the funeral escort. 4 families and 9 children between them now without a parent at Christmas , senseless. We hope the families will find a way to come thru this terrible time. Ryan & Paul
Dec 9th, 2009
Made it back from the Funeral, Amazing event. Approx 20,000 Police, Military and Fire personel attended, over 2,000 Police vehicles including approx 150 Police motorcycles in the escort. Was amazing to be able to be part of this event. The funeral itself was hard, listening to the children of some of the officers speak and express how much it meant to them to have so many attend and show repect made the long, cold trip there and back worth while. Ryan
Well our very good friend and graduate of several Advanced Rider Training course Paul “The IceMan” Mondor has exciting news. If your not aware, Paul set the World Record for the first person to ride a motorcycle (BMW F650 Dakar) from Canadian coast to coast in the middle of the winter. Then to follow it up, he did it again the following year with a sidecar and took a detour and tackled the Trans Labrador Highway….This is why he is called “The IceMan”….
Well Paul has written 2 books,, about the 2 trips and they are really amazing. In reading these book, you feel like your there and living the adventure with this crazy French Canadian rider.
We have added a link to Paul’s site in the links page and you can purchase the books from the site and at a number of other locations. If you order now from Paul you can get your copy for Christmas..!!
Paul is also branching out into Adventure Touring with the first “Frozen Butt” tour this winter in the cold of eastern Canada. There may be a connection in the future between Paul and Advanced Rider Training for Adventure Tours here in Beautiful British Columbia as well with Paul Mondor, Ryan and Paul leading groups through the back country of BC.
Congratulations Paul, All the best from Ryan and Paul and see you on the course next year.
