Managing Risk with Miles Davis

Adventure Rider Issue #32

• Sahara To Sunraysia = australian motorbike riding tours news event magazine
• The Best Job In The World = australian motorbike magazine
• Sri Lanka – adventure motorbike tour, motorcycle magazine
• Fit out – australian adventure motorbike riding
• A Precautionary Tale from Karen Ramsay
• Managing Risk with Miles Davis
• We Didn’t Have PLBs In Those Days
• Yamaha Tracer 900
• BMW GS Safari Enduro = adventure motorbikes, news, reviews, publication
• It’s what we do – adventure motorbike magazine
• Locked Gates – motorbike magazine, australian motorcycle publication
• Ural Adventure Ride 2018
• Congregation 2018
• Read Between The Lines
• Strap Yourself In
• Thinking Big? Start Small with Andy Strapz
• Checkout
• Wet Arses
• The Dempster
• BMW F850GS Rallye X
• TomTom Rider 450

Miles Davis looks at some key adventure-riding risks and how to best handle them.

A skilled rider has more control.Remember when you first rode and how out-of-control you were some of the time? It’s scary to think learner riders get a licence in Australia with such little training. I wish I had a dollar for every time a mature rider with 10 or more years of experience said to me at a training course, “I can’t believe how much I learned. I wish I’d done this sooner.”

Unless you’re a guru both on- and off-road, consider training and keep improving your skills.

You’ll have more fun and ride better, smoother and possibly faster.

Fitness and fatigue

Riding off-road can be extremely physically and mentally fatiguing. Being less skilful ramps up the fatigue drastically. I’ve seen it many times. Riders get tired, lose concentration, precision and end up crashing. I’ve also seen fitter riders in challenging situations simply keep going and going and come out the other side.