About TRACTIONWERKS
Our name means something...
TractionWerks Moto Guild is a motorcycle training school that primarily services the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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The name is intended to convey the never-ending quest for mastery that the guilds of old aspired to. This is not your conventional motorcycle school; we don't teach you how to get your motorcycle license.
At TractionWerks Moto Guild, we take riders who have been taught the mechanics of riding a motorcycle, and we teach them how to find joy through mastery of their motorcycle.
We're not in this to make a buck, we're in this to serve our fellow riders by offering motorcycle training that transcends the basics, offering courses that are focused on cornering, where a surprising amount of single-motorcycle accidents occur. We want to build better motorcyclists!
WHY CHOOSE Tractionwerks?
Your safety and improvement is our only motivation!
We would like to offer you the knowledge and experience gained from thousands of hours of street and track riding and many hours spent learning from masters of this art. Some of our instructors have spent hundreds of hours coaching riders from novice through to experienced riders.
We're not here to teach you to ride faster or drag a knee. Our cornering courses teach you techniques sure, but the practice under the watchful eye of our master coaches along with invaluable feedback and repetition serves to elevate both your skills and your enjoyment of motorcycling.
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At the root of all of this is safety. We believe that street riding should be done safely and responsibly. We want our guild members to develop their skills, techniques and mental capacity to the point that when an obstacle or situation develops in a corner, they can very comfortably take the necessary action. Without continued training and practice, this can be very challenging.
OUR COURSES
Who should take this training?
These are not a track day, track courses or an intro to track days. Our members ride everything from Cruisers, to Adventure Bikes and Sport Bikes. Some aspiring members attending our training courses have recently graduated from novice rider training. Others have been riding for 30 years or are recently on a new bike.
The Cornering101 course is not teaching advanced or experience required techniques but focuses on the one subject a novice safety course doesn't typically cover - cornering.
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For most riders, speed is an obstacle to learning. Throughout your day, you will find the focus is on technique. The only priority is getting through the corners cleanly, executing the techniques as instructed.
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Most riders discover such a boost in skill, experience and capability from Cornering101 that they will progress to Cornering201.
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Cornering201 builds on the fundamentals of 101 and with the same great coaches, methods and closed facility teaches you more advanced riding skills that are essential to safe cornering, i.e., trail-braking.
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Combined, these two courses elevate you to new heights of motorcycling, propelling you further than you even realised was possible. You will unlock a secret world of motorcycling you weren't even aware existed.
The safest place to learn
A twisty, one-way, country road reserved for you!
TractionWerks Moto Guild training courses take place on one of Canada’s finest motorsports facilities, the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit. There are no minivans with distracted parents, no cars with texting teens, no gravel on corners, no wild animals.
Total course control means you can practice and apply the classroom lessons in a way you never could on public roads.
Unlike lessons at a track day where you're trying to learn while others are riding near their limits, our motorcycle cornering school has all of the riders working on the same skills at a pace that allows you to focus on precision.
