About Us

DDS is a body of like minded individuals who love motorcycles. Our members ride street, dirt, dual sport and adventure. We're made up of all cross sections of the motorcycling fabric. All abilities from noobs and career novices, to former racers of enduros, scrambles, mx, roadracing, and flat track. There is always experience around to help out the less experienced riders.

When DDS was originally formed in 1996 as the Withlacoochee Dual Sport Riders Club, it was with an eye on what dual sport was at the time: very enduroesque, dirt and challenge oriented. Roads linking trails.

In 1998, we may have been one of the first to use the phrase "Adventure Motorcycling" in our newsletter as we began to diversify to bigger bikes with more road oriented rides and events, we ran our first GPS guided event in 1999 when the Garmin GPSIII+ was all the rage, and in 1999 DDS had our own Environmental Engineer began taking sound readings at Tech Inspections positioning DDS as a leader in combating the noise issue that restricts land use.

In 2000 motorcycles in the forests were still illegal and two DDS members were ticketed in a State Forest, went to court, and the judge ordered the Forestry Dept to clarify the wording, which now, in WMA brochures stating licensed vehicles are allowed on open roads on State owned forests.

2005 DDS again led the way when we created our long distance point-to-point multiday format with the Cross-Florida Adventure Rides, the X-FL Cross-Florida Enduro Rides, and the legendary DragonSlayer.

DDS events have taken riders from the Georgia border into the heart of the Everglades and everywhere in between in the great state of Florida. We have taken people throughout Northern Alabama, North Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

We support other organizations in these areas dedicated to promoting responsible motorcycling such as GARTRA, Blue Ridge Pathfinders, The Family Riders, Washington Area Trail Riders and others.

Since 1996 DDS (WDSRC) has worked extensively with our local Forest Service and has built a reputation of Trust, Honesty, Integrity, and Respect in all of our dealings and events.

We hold onto Southern values, where a handshake is a man's bond, and a man's word is truth, and we are all part of a larger community.

We work with the Richloam Sportsman's Association every year on the annual Forest Clean Up taking tons of trash out of our woods. We have collected truckloads of backpacks and school supplies for at risk kids, we have raised funds for Holiday gifts for foster children, and we help raise awareness for mental health issues and all the while we promote motorcycling, and motorcyclists, in a positive image.

For all of our work, contributions to the community, and efforts promoting positive motorcycling, The American Motorcyclist Association recognized DixieDualSport as the 2015 Off-Road Recreational Organization of the Year.

So bear with us as we continue to grow, as we revisit ground breaking events we have held in the past, and look forward to new style events in the future.

So it doesn't matter what you ride, but THAT you ride. (or just interested in riding!)

You are a welcome part of the DDS Family.