Mr. Python
Race Dog
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- Yamaha XT 660 Z
Well Falcon and I finally got to do an off road riding course. And wow what a Jol it was.
The course was given by TWAT (Two Wheel Africa Tours) and was presented by PeterO who was ably assisted by Jeanne, Sandi and Colin.
The course was held at the Bilton Winery.
Some of the better looking delegates making friends with Sam the dog. Cat, the girl in the yellow did the course on a little Honda 125 road bike (on the right of the pic behind the tree) she didn’t shy away from any of the exercises despite going down a lot.
We kicked off at 09h00 and finished at 16h20. The venue was stunning and the weather was perfect.
Peter started off with a bit of theory on how to secure a bike to a trailer.
The trailer looked like a customized venter of something like that.
Then there was more theory like important bike features and handy mods. Proper riding positions, with a demo of 2 techniques for verticalizing a horizontal bike and so on....
Then it was off to the field for the practical stuff. Started with tyre pressure checks and an overview of exercises for the morning.
There were mostly balance, throttle and clutch control, exercises with low speed manoeuvring.
Sorry didn’t snap any action pics.
Then it was off to lunch the long way round through the vineyards with some steep rough farm track to try out the new skills on. Coming down was way trickier than I thought it would be.
After lunch it was back to the field for some sliding and braking exercises. Rear wheel and front wheel slides were interesting. Controlled stops and the like.
Front wheel slides was a bit difficult to get past because it was like a replay of my off in the traffic. The 1st one I did was like the feeling you get when the traffic cop runs out from behind the bush with his hand in the air. well when they still had the guts to do that..
Then it was back into the vineyards for a longer ride and some even trickier terrain ending off back at the winery, it was great to finish off with a bit of wine tasting. Beer was available too but, alas we had to get back to the kids.
On the whole it was a very enjoyable day.
Hey maybe some of the other delegates also got some pics and can add them here...
The course was given by TWAT (Two Wheel Africa Tours) and was presented by PeterO who was ably assisted by Jeanne, Sandi and Colin.
The course was held at the Bilton Winery.
Some of the better looking delegates making friends with Sam the dog. Cat, the girl in the yellow did the course on a little Honda 125 road bike (on the right of the pic behind the tree) she didn’t shy away from any of the exercises despite going down a lot.
We kicked off at 09h00 and finished at 16h20. The venue was stunning and the weather was perfect.
Peter started off with a bit of theory on how to secure a bike to a trailer.
The trailer looked like a customized venter of something like that.
Then there was more theory like important bike features and handy mods. Proper riding positions, with a demo of 2 techniques for verticalizing a horizontal bike and so on....
Then it was off to the field for the practical stuff. Started with tyre pressure checks and an overview of exercises for the morning.
There were mostly balance, throttle and clutch control, exercises with low speed manoeuvring.
Sorry didn’t snap any action pics.
Then it was off to lunch the long way round through the vineyards with some steep rough farm track to try out the new skills on. Coming down was way trickier than I thought it would be.
After lunch it was back to the field for some sliding and braking exercises. Rear wheel and front wheel slides were interesting. Controlled stops and the like.
Front wheel slides was a bit difficult to get past because it was like a replay of my off in the traffic. The 1st one I did was like the feeling you get when the traffic cop runs out from behind the bush with his hand in the air. well when they still had the guts to do that..
Then it was back into the vineyards for a longer ride and some even trickier terrain ending off back at the winery, it was great to finish off with a bit of wine tasting. Beer was available too but, alas we had to get back to the kids.
On the whole it was a very enjoyable day.
Hey maybe some of the other delegates also got some pics and can add them here...