1. Make sure you plan to get to the event nice and early so you can find a good place to park.
2. Make sure you leave the house on time.
3. Make sure you have accurate directions to the venue.
4. Don’t try and drive through the mud towing a bike.
5. Drink twice as often and twice as much as you think you should.
6. Trials tyres are not evil.
7. When you crash, pick up your bike as quickly as possible so you don’t lose too much petrol out of the overflow.
8. Arm-pump can be relieved while riding by crashing.
9. If you are a slow rider, keep an eye out behind you for faster riders. They appreciate it when you get out of the way.
10. Ride at your own pace. If you try to go too fast to keep up with someone else you will either crash or run off the course.
11. Don’t think about obstacles too much, just attack them. If you hesitate too much, you’ll most likely fail to get past whatever it is.
12. Ride smart – don’t be afraid to look for legal ways around the hard bits. Sometimes moving a foot off the edge of the main line will let you get through something you have problems with.
13. Don’t stop in the pit area unless you have to. Just keep going.
14. Wearing padded cycle shorts under your race jeans = no monkey butt.
15. With the proper application of throttle, motorcycles can climb trees. 
16. Although it’s a race and everyone wants to win, it’s a good bunch of people. 99% of the time, you will (at least) be asked if you are OK by other riders.
17. Riding standing up takes some practice. Especially when accelerating/decelerating.
18. Trust your suspension. You can ride over more things than you think you can.
19. Motorcycles have a natural aversion to ruts and will do everything in their power to get out of them – no matter what the rider tries to do.
20. It doesn’t hurt that bad to get run over by a KTM.
21. Keep riding until someone tells you to stop.
That’s all I can think of for the moment, but I reserve the right to add to the list as I remember things. 
