WINTER TRAINING EVENT SATURDAY 15TH AUGUST 2015 : WATER CROSSING AND SELF RESCUE.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - the second 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.
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 15th August 2015
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 R100.00 per person
NON PAID UP CLUB MEMBERS PAY R200.OO
Bookings online
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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 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!!!
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 obsatcles, 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
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...
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
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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.
Thanks for your replies, Andy and Charles. Looking forward to this.
I will be handing out membership cards to those attending as club members
I will also have the short luggage securing slings @ R10.oo each and the
three piece (50mm wide webbing towing/recovery straps x 1.5meter) at R100.oo per set for this day only.
Thereafter R200 per set if not registered on the course.
Directions.
Depart from Durbanville on Wellington road R3023- heading towards KliphHeuwel.
Mellish crossing is 12,5 kilometers on the R302.
From the Durbanville Mediclinic (Langeberg road) drive for 9 kilometers and and pass the R turnoff to Fisantekraal R312.
Drive another 2.5 km on the R302 towards Klipheuwel.
Look for the BMW club banners at the turn off to Mellish station and the Mosselbank river crossing.
Please park off the tar on the left in such a way that you can easily get out again.
This road will have one (at most) two trucks come ambling slowly down. (or not)
Refreshments are for sale, coffee and rusks on arrival.
Please fill in the register, collect you club membership card if you are a member and your attendance certificate.
We have one organised photographer.
At the traffic lights on the N2 @ S/West today I saw a R 1200 GS on trailer on the shoulder with peeps fiddling.
I stopped to see if they required assistance.
No, just checking the securing straps.
Two things really made me just wonder. a fantastic trip ending early when it could have gone on.
What pity guys, hope to see you soon again on Saturday.
Firstly the bike was on a trailer as the trip had ended on Gannaga pass because his torsion bar- tensions strut on the swing arm had "Kinked" under load jumping a rut"
This is the tension strut.
Under a massive shock it has been known to kink.
If you are resourceful you can do a budgy job in the field and repair it by splinting it with tyre irons and cables ties.
There is a technique.
(Gavin and Paul, please send photos if you read this post. sorry guys)
Wayne and Jo have done this out in the cuds... using a piece of fence dropper.
I have done this on a bike out in Nam.
And both times the guys rode full trip and had the strut replaced once home.
So another trip here was ended prematurely because the riders had not stopped and considered all their options.
The second thing was they had already broken two tie downs due to improper securing and damn near lost the bike!!!
It took a few minutes to show them how to secure the bike so it remained safely on the trailer and DID NOT SCUFF THE PAINT WORK RAW WITH WEBBING CHAFE.
Do not let your trip end early when you actually can keep it alive.
Come join us next Saturday and pick some inspirational tips on how to keep your tour alive.
Will you ride? No.
Upon arrival, registration, coffee & rusks.
Then a short talk on self rescue before splitting into three groups.
your group will rotate between the three sets of instructors, each covering different parts of the course.
Then we end up by watching me ride a bike into the river, across and back and then drowning the bike, ingesting water. This is to demonstrate how to get water out the engine of the R1200 GS.
By the end of the course you will have a very good idea how to approach water obstacles, how to tow, be towed and how to secure a bike to a trailer.
You will also see what you should take with you on an adventure off tar that will help you get yourself out of all sorts of trouble.
How to be more resourceful and not just give up.
And special thanks to Donford Motorrad and Shane Hoskins for their support tomorrow.
Check the met,
You'll see that D-Day is in a small window between large cold fronts.
So if ever there was a time to sharpen up on self-rescue and water crossings, it is tomorrow.
Remember to bring along some camping chairs.
Don't worry about breakfast, our hospitality team in the club gazebo will keep you sorted with coffee rusks and are selling hot dogs.
Please no spectators other than family and kids and your dogs.
Let wives, girlfriends an boyfriends meet, chat and see how the club makes riding and adventuring safer and what a great group you hang out with.
Our photographer will capture the many moments , but feel free to click away yourself.
I will bring along a few cups of hot veggie soup.
Jacques
What a great day of learning today was. Thanks to all who attended to make this a huge success. Here are the pictures taken by Jackie Wiese - thanks Jackie.
Nice trip report. Photos says it all.
Thanks Andy and the whole Team. This club ROCKS.
Jacques.
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