Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

I agree, the course was excellent, I really learnt so much. I highly recommend this course to anyone new to biking off road Great course Leon and Lourens, looking forward to the intermediate one next

Here are a couple of photos I managed to take, had to listen and concentrate so much that there wasn't time for more Under the trees at Nelsons Creek Emergency braking demonstration We're starting to get nervous as it's our turn to lock the back wheel, Leon just smiles Now we get told we have to lock the front wheel too!! Just to see how it feels...

Ok, John, so you were the one with the Canon. Thanks for the pics. Photography is my other hoby and I am keen to figure out how to mix the two. I assume if you have CS3 on a mac that you must also be reasonably serious about photography. Where about are you from. Kobus

Hi Kobus, I'm from CT, live in the Southern Suburbs, yes I had the little Canon Powershot, I left the SLR at home as the little guy was easier to carry. I do have a Mac & CS3....how did you work that out? Photography is one of my hobbies and I do some for work too

Thanks Kobus n John for the feedback and pics. Great investment you made. Nice mix of bikes on the course too. I did the course in April, a month after getting my 1150GSA and I just grew in leaps n bounds after learning what the bike and I are capable of. Now you need to get off on a road trip on dirt and really you have to concsiously try to employ those skiils or you will lose them. They do not all come back easily or quickly and so you must make opportunity to practice what you learned as soon as possible to ensure the course value is fully appreciated. I was only able to remember to do the stuff bit by bit, but it eventually becomes 2nd nature and then only you know the true value of the course Andyman Yup that's me. Standing up in the traffic on the 1150GSA.

Kobus, I shoot with a small Pentax Optio 3mega pixel and a Hewlitt Packard HP35- 7 mega pixel. Like many riders I prefer slung short around my neck in front of me, pouch unzipped. I'm always shooting on the hoof as well as stopping for better serious shots where I consider light angles, perspectives, picture composition and foreground/background subject material. On dirt roads, dust is a major risk hazard to the lense gearing and I've had to have professional repairs once already. However, most of the off-tar biking shots are muk-n-druk as time/circumstance allows. My star ring photos are always great and I've experimented with foreground shadow exposure during the main exposure with a hooded flash to bring foreground material up in relief. Star rings in the karoo The Karoo is just grat for star rings. I use the Pentax Mv1 reflex with shutter cable release on B setting for the time exposures for star rings. Andyman Yup that's me. Standing up in the traffic on the 1150GSA.

Saturday afternoon at about 16:45 I saw all of you guy's returning from the training, I was on the Adventure coming from the direction of Klapmuts. You must have all being pooped because no matter how hard I tried I could not get one of you (About 12 )to wave back at me!!!!!!! leon and Lourens, shame on you, die manne was gedaan! Mooi!!!! Do it today, maybe there is no tomorrow!

Pooped is not the word, I am fairly fit and I rode home at 80kmph, then tried to ride around a track near my house on Sunday and my forearms said...."what the hell are you doing"

So now we know why the reports and photographs are so cool, Tx. Andyman and Annie. Bum in the saddle, always.

Wanneer is die volgende intro offroad course - aangesien ek (en dalk 'n paar ander) nie hierdie kon maak nie? Die kursus was vol, wat beteken dat daar ander belangstellendes ook was - ek is spyt dat ek hierdie een gemis het.

Yeah, I'd also like to know how he figured that out. I can't find any metadata on those images to give me a clue.

Use Opanda Exifviewer. A free download from here. http://www.opanda.com/ Right-click on the picture and you can see all the meta/exif data. In this case you must open the picture in another window as it is only a thumbnail showing. Kobus