Quad Biking at Leisure Pursuits

Posted by Tim Mckay on 12/02/2012

Leisure Pursuits always try and come up with original things to do with our vehicles and our quad courses are no exception to this rule. We offer two exciting quad courses, the ‘Quad Obstacle Course’ and the ‘Quad Dug Out’s Section’

The Obstacle course uses one of our Yamaha Breeze or Grizzly automatic 125cc bikes this bikes are ideal to start out on as they are light, agile and easy to ride.

After being shown the controls of the bike riders will then walk the course to look at the 14 different obstacles and discuss the best way to complete them with the instructor.

The obstacles include low and raised side risers, cross logs, sections of rolling road, a limbo bar and even a see saw.

Riders get a practice lap with plenty of advice from the instructor. Then it’s on to the scored run where any flat cones of failed obstacles count as penalty points on the riders score card.

If you’re looking for something a bit more challenging, then you can try your hand at our newly extended ‘Dug Out’s Section’. We only allow people to ride this section after the obstacle course has been completed to a satisfactory standard, due to its extreme nature.

This course uses our amazingly capable 450cc 4x4 Yamaha Kodiak bike. This machine is still fully automatic for rider ease, but is fitted with a low range gear, giving a huge amount of engine braking making it possible to negotiate the steep descents on this section.

Again you will attend a briefing at the bike and walk the course before riding it. The course is marked out with canes and uses natural terrain rather than man made obstacles to test you riding skills. The idea is to complete the course without missing any of the caned gates, flattening or touching any of the canes.

And recently this course got even better as the Leisure Pursuits site team spent a day and half opening up new section of the woodland and increasing the size of the route and bringing in even bigger drops and assents!