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tors like those makes you want
to ride, and had it not been for
the 110-degree midday Texan
sun, I'd probably have ridden a
lot more.
Edwards knows he's onto
a good thing with the camp.
Already world famous thanks to
his international persona and
clever social media platform
where short films give an insight
into life at the camp, the TTBC
has grown to be a must-do
activity for riders around the
world, with this particular camp
seeing father, son and daughter
groups, visitors from England,
Denmark, Spain and Australia.
The ranch layout consists of
three individual circuits, one
under a massive steel awning
in case it rains and the clay
surface gets real, real slippery,
and is based on the basic skills
of riding a motorcycle that every
rider should have. Riders are
equipped with identical Yamaha
TT- R125s, low-powered bikes
that magnify errors in riding
style and respond exponentially
when you correct them.
"The reality is we do not
teach anything super extra
special at the camp," Edwards
says. "We're not teaching you
how to do a double backflip or
a 360, all we really do is ingrain
fundamentals. I've been rid-
ing motorcycles for 37 years;
every time I come out here I
learn something new. So if I'm
still learning, that pretty much
tells me there's no limit as far as
what you can learn on a bike.
"If you make a mistake in
a car, you spin out, you get
back on the track, you're good.
Motorcycles, if you crash,
you crash. So learning how to
finesse two contact patches
the size of two credit cards is a
completely different story than
sitting flat and finessing four
contact patches."
The curriculum has evolved
over the last few years and inter-
estingly Edwards and his crew's
primary focus is on corner exit,
MOST
SCHOOLS
TALK ABOUT
CORNER ENTRY,
WHEN IN REALITY
THE EXIT IS THE
FIRST THING
YOU NEED TO
KNOW. ARE YOU
GOING ONTO A
STRAIGHTAWAY
OR ARE YOU
GOING ONTO
A LITTLE
SWITCHBACK
LEFT/RIGHT?
– EDWARDS
Want to see what the camp is like?
Check out our little flick here:
Check out this great video from
Shofner Films on the TTBC:
