Shaping, Cold Proofing & Scoring After fermentation comes one of the most satisfying parts of the entire sourdough process: giving the dough its final shape. By this point, the dough has already done much of the work. Fermentation has developed flavour, built structure and filled the dough with tiny pockets of gas. When shaping, you…
Beef Jerky for the Road Anyone who regularly goes on long hikes or spends hours on the road knows the moment hunger creeps in. Not enough to stop and sit down for a proper meal, but enough to want to reach into your bag or the glovebox for something. A sandwich works, a piece of…
Stop Exercise The stop exercise sits somewhere between the emergency stop and the precision stop. In real riding, you might use this when approaching an amber traffic light or in a situation where you still have time to stop, but need to decide quickly. You have a bit more time than in an emergency stop,…
Precision Stop The precision stop is actually harder than the emergency stop, but it’s also something you’ll use a lot in real riding. Think of stopping at traffic lights, stop lines, or in slow-moving traffic where you need to decide exactly where to come to a halt. This exercise is not about braking as hard…
Emergency Stop What do you do when you’re riding through a residential area and suddenly a ball rolls out into the street right in front of you? You stop. Fast. The emergency stop is all about coming to a controlled halt as quickly as possible, without losing stability or control of the motorcycle. It shows…
Deceleration Exercise The deceleration exercise combines several skills in one: accelerating, braking, and immediately continuing into a slalom. In real traffic, this feels like situations where you need to adjust your speed without coming to a complete stop. Traffic slowing down ahead, a corner that turns out tighter than expected, or an obstacle you need…
Fast Slalom The fast slalom is one of the exercises many learners approach with a bit of tension at first. Moving quickly between cones sounds intense, almost like you need to be on high alert the entire time. But once you understand what the motorcycle is actually doing, it becomes far more natural than it…
Evasive Manoeuvre The evasive manoeuvre is one of the more demanding exercises in the AVB test. It is also one of the first moments where everything you have learned starts to feel like real-world riding. The cones in front of you represent an unexpected obstacle: a stationary car, a wall that suddenly appears, or an…
Half Turn The half turn is the exercise where many learners first realize that a motorcycle can do more than they initially dare to believe. What seems almost impossible at first is, in practice, often mainly a matter of trust. In this exercise, you make a half turn within the width of a normal street….
Slow speed straight riding In this exercise, you ride approximately twenty meters at walking pace in a straight line. It sounds simple, but low-speed riding says a lot about how well you actually control the motorcycle. In real traffic, you encounter this much more often than you might think. Think of a busy parking area,…