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Solo Rider's Guide to Motorcycle Rescue

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Image: David Petersen - BestRest Products

For the solo rider, or the times when any rider finds themselves solo and having an adventure, it doesn’t take much to find yourself in a situation where your motorcycle has landed on its side, or worse, off the road or trail. This is when one of these techniques will help rescue, retrieve or unstuck your motorcycle. Featured is David Petersen, Chris Birch and Bill Dragoo.


Image: David Petersen

David Petersen is a motorcyclist, inventor and the owner of BestRest Products, maker of the Cycle Pump, near Seattle, Washington.
BestRest Products: cycle pump.com

Images: David Petersen - BestRest Products


Chris Birch:

Image: Chris Birch

Chris is a life-long motorcyclist and has been an off-road riding instructor in New Zealand since 2007. He first started out as a trials rider and moved on to enduro riding in his teens. He’s an eight times national enduro champion in New Zealand, and is New Zealand’s most successful Dakar Rally competitor finishing 27th and 2nd in the rookies class in 2012. He’s now one of KTM’s highest profile Adventure Ambassadors. Chris has a background as a mechanical engineer which gives him a unique perspective on the physics of motorcycle riding and the techniques. He now runs his coaching business full time and spends most of the year travelling around the world running coaching clinics and going to adventure bike events.

Chris Birch: http://www.chrisbirch.co.nz
Chris Birch Vimeo Pay Per View course: Say No To Slow


Bill Dragoo is a moto-journalist, a certified BMW factory-trained off-road instructor, and a certified Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider Coach. He’s also a certified flight instructor, a sky diver and scuba diver. He’s competed and won in motocross, cross-country mountain biking, sailboat racing and adventure riding. Bill is the founder of DART (Dragoo Adventure Riding Training) in Norman, Oklahoma. At DART (Dragoo Adventure Rider Training), Bill offers off-road riding courses at three different levels for all brands of motorcycles.  
DART: https://billdragoo.com

Images: Bill Dragoo - DART