Off-road and navigation school with Renato Zocchi

The spirit of the event

Renato Zocchi offers interested parties his decades of experience as a pilot (see CV) to improve driving and orientation abilities.

Courses to improve off-road driving abilities and navigation techniques for orientation with the use of satellite navigator or specific programmes for mobile phones. Following marked routes by way of waypoints and/or GPX tracks.

Courses last one or more days.

In Lombardy

in Lombardy with a base at the Malpensa motocross course, where the theoretical part takes place inside the course structure and the technical part on a special dirt track. The course then continues along dirt tracks in Lombardy, Piemonte and Liguria, where orientation and navigation tests are carried out. If the course is one day, it returns to Malpensa in the evening, if it is 2 days, it includes a stop at a farmhouse and a second day of training on the bike.

In Sardinia

In Sardinia along the routes of the Sardegna Gran Tour and the Swank Rally of Sardinia, with a base in the most renowned agritourisms on the island.

Courses usually last 3 days, excluding travel.

CALENDAR

– 09.00 a.m. meeting and preparations

– 09.30 Beginning of the course: basic off-road driving theory, motorbike preparation, tyres and suspension, brakes, ABS, traction control. Hints of navigation and use of satellite navigator with GPX tracks and waypoints.
– Practice on a static motorbike: riding position and body movements
– 10.30 a.m. transfer to the upper part of the circuit for the practical course:
– slalom exercises, figure eights, weight shifting on jumps and bumps, uphill starts, overcoming obstacles
– exercises on the circuit course
– 12.15 pm End of the practical course
– 12.30 pm lunch
– 1.30 p.m. departure of the mixed road and easy off-road route (dirt roads) 100/160 Km according to students’ abilities, with orientation exercises.
– 5.30 p.m./6 p.m. return to the motocross course
– end of course.

Calendar of the first one-day courses

March:

– Sunday 20
– Friday 25th

April:

– Wednesday 13

May:

– Sunday 1
– Monday 9 (Full)

October 13 – 16

On the tracks of Sardinia Big Tour

Dates after 9 May and programmes for the 2-day courses will be published shortly on the website in the near future. Other dates are available on request for groups of at least 4 people.