A Precautionary Tale from Karen Ramsay

Adventure Rider Issue #32

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• BMW F850GS Rallye X
• TomTom Rider 450

Karen Ramsay tells of a close call.

It’s hard to believe I know, but there are times when I let husband Dave go riding on his own. Sometimes I feel compelled to stay home and catch up on domestic duties. It seems to be more often these days now the kids have more or less left home and there’s no-one there to do the housework or mow the lawn.

Dave recently had an incident when he was alone on his BMW F800GS. It all turned out okay so I’m sure he won’t mind me sharing his story. It’s also a reminder of how quickly things can go badly wrong, and how a really innocuous situation can turn quite serious. He acknowledges if he’d been somewhere isolated, the story could have had a very different ending. Here’s what happened in his own words…