How To Ride with Miles Davis

This entry is part 16 of 22 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #12

Good preparation has a lot to do with finishing a ride.

Adventures come in all shapes and sizes, and it doesn’t matter if it’s your first weekend adventure 100km from home or an experienced rider’s trans-continental mission. Both will face many of the same challenges. It really helps if you understand all the opportunities relative to the risks, and make good decisions from the moment you start planning to the point your mission is complete.

Ambitious targets

If your ride is complex, involves longer distances, limited time or unknown or remote terrain, you need to think carefully, be realistic and have back-up plans in case things don’t go exactly as intended. There’s the ‘ideal scenario’, then there’s the realistic and the worst-case scenarios. There are lots of things that can impact your plans – like weather, break-downs (mechanical, physical and emotional), getting lost, detours/road closures, fuel issues…should I keep going? Make sure you consider all three possible scenarios and not just your dream ride.

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