The View From Here

I am more excited about 2020 than any other year of the Traction eRag!  

We have been slowly and carefully growing our schedule of training and event dates. Our programs have been designed around what we collectively believe off-road riders would find interesting, challenging and fun. Our ideas get extensively tested. Sometimes they make it into the curriculum while others get buried out back. Names like Shark Tank, GrizzBait, and the Gravity Challenge are the result of perpetual refinement by a misguided gang of likeminded eRag Reprobates. 

I have the privilege of sharing this journey with the eRag gang, a family who, knowingly or unknowingly, protect each other from a life that lacks meaning. Although some find it difficult to associate riding dirt bikes with meaning, especially given mainstream society’s harsh judgment of what it is to be a responsible adult. What we attempt to achieve transcends motorcycles. Motorcycles are simply the medium. We deeply recognize that the story arc of a trail ride closely mimics life – unpredictable and sometimes difficult, it can be a lot of fun but often scary. If you ride off-road motorcycles long enough you begin to understand that they inadvertently prepare you for hardships to come.

Our entire gang has ridden off-road motorcycles extensively and because of this, or at least in part, the eRag gang possesses strong character. Descriptors require words like integrity, determination and perseverance. Their collective work ethic is indisputable. Every one of them carries their burden responsibly whether it is caring for elderly parents, difficult work situations, raising children, health issues, and aging. All while remaining upbeat about the future – no small feat. I like to muse that riding off-road motorcycles helps.

I am proud to be surrounded by this group and if you have, or ever get to, attend our events you may learn the secret we all possess. Riding off-road motorcycles is not about gadgets, horsepower and engineering. If you pay attention, riding off-road is about what matters most – life itself.