better riding
if you can handle off-road muddy conditions, then road riding is easy. i've certainly improved since doing some riding on un-surfaced roads here in the uk (known as green-lanes).
you'd learn more bike control in an hour off-road than 20'000miles on road. if you slide the bike on tarmac, you're probably about to fall off. off-road you can slide and get used to the feel of the bike.
this can then be transferred to whatever bike you ride, on whatever surface.
best of all its fantastic fun, and can be done very cheaply.
i use a 350 enfield bullet off-road. £600 for a bike that you can power slide and drop 100 times without breaking. these roads are all over the uk, just get a local ordnance survey 'explorer' map and there they all are.
if anyone wants to start off-road riding on legal roads in the uk drop me a line and i'll let you now how to go about it.
one of the lanes i use is about 1/2 mile from the m25!
rdjc
rdjclinker'AT'hotmail.com
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