BMW Off road skills

Following on from the ride around trip to the BMW Offroad Skills training centre in Wales back in the summer of ’09, three of us have decided to take a trip back there this year with a view to spending a day learning adventure maintenance techniques for repairing and maintaining the bikes when in the middle of nowhere then a day in the dirt to get a chance...

Sep 13, 2010

It has been a while since we returned from Wales but I have been experimenting with Animoto. I used a collection of photos and video from our trip to BMW Offroad Skills to create the cool vid embedded below. Create your own video slideshow at...

Feb 10, 2010

This is massively late, I had plans to write a great long post to go with it and I forgot. So let me get down to business and let you know what we managed to drink whilst we were staying at the Abercrave Inn in Wales… last year! We drank; 3 pints of Directors 6 pints of Rev James 18 pints of Brains SA 4 pints of Guinness 8 pints of Pepsi 2 pints of...

Jul 5, 2009

Our introduction to the course started a day early when we left the hotel to go in search of the business park where we were due to meet on the first day of the course. Trying to follow a map sent as part of the joining instructions was not going well until we passed a local garage with around 30 BMW motorbikes covered in fresh Welsh mud – we knew were...

With winter looming, the Ridearound team are starting to do some armchair planning. Early next year, we will take to the roads for the first team adventure. This is going to cover the planning!