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The BMWMCCC club training team have put together a formidable training session to equip you to handle water crossings and to give useful tips and tools on self-rescue in the outback’s.

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Understanding the dynamics of water crossings is essential to the adventurer out in our rural environment.

Understanding the dynamics of your bike and how to keep your adventure alive by using simple techniques and simple tools will enhance your outdoor experience, not to mention time lost as a stranded, forlorn victim of not knowing how.
This is an annual club training event in the first week of July.
Only 24 places to maintain group dynamic and proper trainer attention

Date                      : Saturday 6^th July 2019

Time                      : from 10H00 onwards to 14H00

Venue                  : The Mosselbank crossing , Mellish in Durbanville

Not even 10 km from Durbanville

Come along with your bike or by car. 

Bring folding chairs to relax and to hang your gear off.

You can actively participate with your bike,  or just attend and learn by watching.

The BMWMCCC social team cash refreshments will keep us fed with drinks and boerie rolls under the club gazebo .

The crossing is closed to traffic due to the high water, so we will not be bothered much by other road users.

 

You will be allocated to one of three groups and each group will rotate from session to session.

Some recovery items will be available for sale.

 Cost to attend R170.00 per person

 NON PAID UP CLUB MEMBERS PAY R200.OO 

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Payment confirms your booking.

BMWMCCC

FNB

Acc No: 500600 98602

Code:  201709

 

Reference : Your name + Selfrescue

 Items to be covered:

• River crossings with water currents
• Resurrecting a drowned bike.
• The correct way to draw a bike across a water obstacle
• Riding slowly, not fast through rivers
• Hard-points for towing- theory and practical
• Towing a bike – the dynamics, the Do’s, the Don’ts.
• Rigging gear – plain and simple- tow ropes and sacrificial slings.
• Securing a bike to a trailer the correct way – unsprung parts only.
• Self rescue techniques, essential spares and tools
• Self recovery using nature, basic principles of the lever and  rigging.

 

Self-rescue or wait all day for a recovery vehicle??

 

 

Self-rescue or abandon the bike???

 

 

Ride too fast---- drown the engine!!    Stranded!

 

.... and have to push the bike home!!!  This is the Mosselbank crossing

 

Ride through the obstacle or ride round the obstacle?

 

120 kilometers from the nearest help is not the time to be stranded by a drowned engine.

 

 

Learn to cross obstacles, if you stay sitting, you may drop the bike and it will drown....

 

Or get training- ride slow, stand up, open up the legs and look into the middle distance  This is the Mosselbank crossing

 

The rewards of self-rescue keep the adventure alive, live to ride another day.

If they had 1,5 meter straps on this ride the 'pusher' would not have been covered head to toe in mud splattered from the rear wheel.

Draw the bike, do not 'push' the bike out an obstacle.

A priceless lesson in common sense and self rescue!

 

He's got a snorkel, or he's on an LC, 650, or 800, he's rigged for water, he's riding sweet... This is the Mosselbank crossing

 

Knowing how to cross water makes your ride so much more adventurous

 

Self rescue - keeping

the trip alive.  A multi tool with an auger and some copper wire stripped of its insulating sheath and the screen was stitched together to provide valuable wind protection.

 

 

If you carried a spare tube, yes even for tubeless tyres,

This would never have been more than a 20 minute diversion.

self rescue is an essential skill to work on

 

Understanding the dynamics of towing can help you one day out of a tight spot