SELF RESCUE & WATER CROSSING TRAINING SAT 16 JULY 2016: - FULLY BOOKED OUT
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - the third self rescue and water crossing training morning.
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.
MAX GROUP SIZE IS 24 PERSONS
Understanding the dynamics of water crossings is essential to the adventure 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.
Date : Saturday 16th July 2016
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 your family to enjoy watching.
Bring folding chairs to relax and hang your gear off.
You can actively participate with your bike, or you can just get involved or even just attend and learn by watching.
The BMWMCCC social team will keep us fed with drinks and boerie rolls under the club gazebo -refreshments you can buy cash..
The crossing is closed to traffic due to the high water, so we will not be bothered by other road users.
Join one of three groups and rotate from session to session.
Some recovery items will be available for sale.
Cost to attend R120.00 per person
NON PAID UP CLUB MEMBERS PAY R170.OO
booking form link (deactivated- course is fully booked)
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 crows feet.
- 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 one day for a rescue vehicle??
Self rescue or abandon the bike???
Ride too fast---- drown the engine!!
... 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, 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
Towing bike on gravel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0ywTJFzIY&feature=youtu.be
Towing bike on tar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXCifHgk5cU&feature=youtu.be
Whether you actually have a desire to use these skills on your next adventure, or you just want to know what to do when confronted by a low water bridge.
Maybe you just want to know these essential techniques so that riding out in the cuds is less fearsome.
Make use of this opportunity, it will not happen again for quite a while.
THE TRAINING TEAM
Andy Connell
John 'The master' Carr
Peter Ohanlon
Charles 'the Badger' Oertel
Neels Wilken.
Please see this session in context of all the valuable off road and road riding courses offered as a set of supplementary essential specialist skills that we will share to enable you to push on with a trip across country despite setbacks of water, terrain and break downs.
And even if you are not ready for adventure riding, you will see how possible it is to keep on going despite set backs.
I so badly wanted to do this session but I am away at a show, I also wanted to do last weekends outride training but was in Durban. Seems like good things only take place when I am away .
Hi Andy.
Please add me again. This will be my second time. Experience is the best way to learn.
Will bring some soup again.
Will deposit fees tomorrow.
Jacques BOTHA
Phew, I was beginning to really worry- The Mosselbank crossing has been bone dry for months now.
At long last, she flows and the crossing will soon be too deep for all but the really adventurous!
This bodes well for our legendary Water crossing training.
At the end of the session I ride through the water. Everyone watches with bated breath.....
If you feel you are up ot it on the day and want to attempt the crossing with me in July, let me know when you arrive.
All bikes can do it if you cross slowly and with care except for the R 1150 GS anf R1200 GS oil cooled boxer motor bikes.
Unless you fit a snorkel.
I will once again demonstrate with a snorkel and without- drowning the engine on the second attempt and demonstrating CPR for a drowned engine- principle is the same for any engine.
ONLY ten four PLACES LEFT ON THIS COURSE
Andy, as I commute on my R1200RS in all weather. this has me in deep water ( flooded roads knee deep in the dark ) when the weather is as now. I wonder if this would be a good place for me to understand the do's and don't as a roadie, so include me as an observer full of ???????
Naand Andy
Kan ek nog bywoon asb? Thx!!
Ja beslis.
registreernet, betaalnet and daag opnet.
Andy Hartman and I (Rory) are in. Booking form filled in and Paid.
Hi Andy,
Possible to come observe? Will bring camera to record the day's event.
Then can upload to the web site. Did photography for the Donford fun day last month (I think).
Booked. Paying now!
This course is now fully booked and has been taken off the bookmings form.
The hot link in the main post has also been deactivated.
Thanks to all who booked, We look forward to seeing you at Mosselbnak on Saturday 16th- two weeks time.
You have all received an email with details, if you did not and you are not on the above list, but think you should have been booked, let me know.
REGRET ALL TOW STRAPS HAVE BEEN PRE-SOLD.
NO MORE ARE AVAILABLE,
CERTAINLY NOT AT THAT PRICE.
indeed the weather for Saturday looks great:
I have just finished signing and laminating the certificates.
When you arrive to register,
- there is a laminated certificate for each person on the course
- also a give-away lip balm and a small tub of sunbloc, I will explain its use to you
- each person who ticks off their name and signs gets an accreditation wrist band.
The service personnel and instructors have a different color to the course candidates
Persons not pre- registered & paid up will be asked to leave the training area.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Hey Andy
Wit the amount of rain that fell in Durbanville this morning between 04h00 and 07h00, you may just need to add the following items to your agenda for the SELF RESCUE & WATER CROSSING TRAINING tomorrow:
- How to build a RAFT,
- How to strip bike kit to bare minimum, but you can keep your boots on, and
- How to tie down bike onto, and use the raft to float bike over to other side of water crossing 
See ya tomorrow, and you can stop praying for water now please else you're going to be neck deep!
THANK YOU Andy, Peter, Charles, Neels, Anna-Marie, Donford Stell. and anyone else involved in organising this event.
It was a very informative and worthwhile event. 10/10.
Huge thanks to Andy and team for a well-organised and extremely useful event. I picked up several gems of information - the sort of tips you only get from people who have been in the saddle for a long time, and to have them all collated and presented in the space of few hours was a real privilege. Andy, allowing your bike to be intentionally drowned and then resuscitated goes way beyond the call of duty, but until I actually saw the procedure performed, I had no confidence I could handle it myself if I had to. Good to see the support from Donford as well.
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