News from Off Road Skills
Special Offer From Touratech and Off Road SkillsTo Celebrate our success on the Transorientale Rallye. Touratech as a main sponsor of Simon Pavey's race effort, has agreed to support some places on our BMW Off Road Skills courses. These special places will be available over the next month. The offer will be limited and on a first come, first served basis, and there will be no more available once the original allocation is sold. The course cost will discounted by £50 making the actual price now an incredible low £399. To Book your place please phone the World of BMW hotline on 08000 131 282 and quote the "Touratech Transorientale Promotion" to confirm your booking at the discounted price. Read more about the Rallye Success.... Find Out about the Course dates still available....
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Pavey finishes inaugural Transorientale Rally - 30 June 2008 Hi all! Funny enough I am just finishing off the visit to China with a chinese meal in Beijing. The last day and function of the rally following the final special stage was a bit of an anti-climax really, but then they always are. We were packed into cattle trucks and shuttled for 30km to the Great Wall for a photograph and then that was it. |
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Seventh heaven for Pavey - 27 June 2008 Hold on, I'll just put the beer down! It was the last real racing stage today and the end of the rally tomorrow is just a 30km run to the Great Wall for the podium, so we're having a few beers tonight. I had a mega awesome day. Our two fan mod has worked wonders and it was like being let off the leash. I'm so pleased to get seventh on the stage and I would have been sixth if I hadn't have had a minor fuelling problem which meant I had to siphon some fuel from my rear tanks to the front one. |
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Second fan cools heated frustration for Pavey - 26 June 2008 Hi. Following a couple of frustrating days in the dunes with the bike overheating, Bernie and I came up with a fix last night. We took off the coolant overflow tank and replaced it with a fan. So the radiator now has two fans, one which is on all the time, the other that only cuts in when the engine temperature gets high, and what a difference. The bike is transformed, it doesn't overheat anymore, and it's gained an extra 5bhp! |
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Pavey finishes a hot day in China - 25 June 2008 Sorry I'm checking in late but the phone signal isn't that consistent here. Not great today, it has been extremely frustrating. The bike's been overheating a lot and I just had to keep stopping to let the engine cool. |
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Sand, sand and more sand!- 24 June 2008 |
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Sand dunes and extreme heat, take its toll on Pavey - 23 June 2008 Not the best day today. It was a really long hard stage and it is absolutely stinking. The heat is real tough, it's so hot. There were a lot of riders suffering with the high temperatures; it was over 40 degrees. I was fine with it though, being from Oz I'd have to say that, but the bike suffered. |
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Rest Day for Transorientale competitors - 22 June 2008 It's a rest day today so Bernie's been working on the bike and should have my bash plate repaired ready for tomorrow. The bike is holding up really well, which is good news because we're in for a tough, tough day tomorrow. We start dune busting in the morning, so the heat and navigation are going to be real hard. |
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Pavey adjusts to conditions in China - 21 June 2008 Hi all. Yesterday was another strange day. We were up at the usual time and ready to go for 5am but we didn't get away until 8am as we got held by the organisers. The fuel trucks had got stopped and held at the Chinese border so we had to wait for them to get in. |
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Dusty trail to China - 20 June 2008 |
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Bash-plate battle for Pavey - 19 June 2008 |
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Pavey's Transorientale update - 18 June 2008 Hi! It was not a good night last night. We turned up at the bivouac late at night to find only two organisers there. No sleeping bags, no fuel, no information, nothing. I found out by text from some mates in the UK that there had been an accident and obviously all the organisers were sorting that out. |
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Pavey steppes up - 17 June 2008 Today the riding is a real contrast from yesterday. It has just been flat-out with the throttle wide open! We're riding over the famous steppes. It's been 320km of vast open flat grassland. It's a bit unnerving as you just have the throttle wide open for ages. The grass is quite high so you can't really see the sandy soil beneath, so it's a bit of a an act of faith but you just keep it pinned - it has been pretty mad! |
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Transorientale Rally update from Linley - 16 June 2008 Hi all, Linley here, Simon's gone to bed to prepare for another 5am start tomorrow. He had a good day today. He is really enjoying it. He had a huge smile on his face following the 124km special stage. It's seems that Si was a bit "geographically challenged" today and took the leaders on a 40k detour. He's denying it obviously, so I haven't heard the full story yet, but all the guys that followed him are having a laugh about it so it must be true! |
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Stage 3 special abandoned due to bad weather - 13 June 2008 Well, I knew it was going to be a tough rally and I know it's Friday the 13th but I wasn't expecting bad luck this early on. It has really been one of those days. We kicked off at 5am again this morning from the tent city bivouac. It was made all the more pleasant by the peeing rain. |
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Pavey 8th overall after first gruelling day of Transorientale It's been a long old day! We were up at 3.30am ready for an early start at 5.00 and I've just got off the bike at 5.30pm. Today was a total of over 500 miles, that's like riding from London to Aberdeen, which on a dirt bike ain't too comfortable. The road we've been riding is the main route between St Petersburg and Moscow. It's only a 2 lane road and Russia seems to have the most lorries in the world. |
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Pavey revs up for extreme new Beijing Rally - 10 June 2008 Not content with his repeated success at the Paris-Dakar Rally, Simon Pavey, the Chief Instructor at World of BMW’s Off Road Skills school, is now preparing for the start of a brand new challenge. Simon has entered the inaugural Transorientale Rally, covering 10, 700 kilometres, spanning parts of Russia, Kazakhstan and China. |
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Coming up - June 2008 Pavey enters the new extreme Transoriental Rallye Starting on 12 June in St Petersburg, Russia; thru Kazakhstan ending in Beijing, China on 29 June.New Rallye, new terrain, new challanges for all competitors 3 Countries, 17 Days , 10,000kms. |
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Pavey turns from two wheels to four - 24 September 2007 |
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Join the Off Road Tour to the Pyrenees - 5 September 2007 |
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Mrs Pavey does Alaska, Canada and America - 28 August 2007 |
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| We are off to Ireland! - 22 August 2007 It's time to share the Off Road Skills courses with our friends in Ireland. Next Monday we are packing our trucks and taking most of our school motorcycles to the fantastic area of Wexford in south-east Ireland. Read more... |
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From Wales to Mongolia - 14 August 2007 |
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BMW Motorrad acquires Husqvarna Motorcycles - 13 August 2007 |
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Enjoy a day of HP2 fun - 30 July 2007 |
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| Pavey stars at BMW Motorsport evening - 10 July 2007 Six times Dakar rally competitor and BMW Off-Road Skills chief instructor Simon Pavey was the star of BMW Motorrad at the recent BMW Motorsport evening held at head office in Bracknell last week. Read more... |
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| New Level One Off Road Skills date - 28 June 2007 Due to the popularity of the Off Road Skills courses, Simon Pavey and his Off Road Skills team have added another Level One course to the calendar on 6-7 October 2007. Read more... |
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| Dan Walsh learns to ride off road - 26 June 2007 If you read the UK's largest motorcycle magazine - Bike – then you may have heard of Dan Walsh. He is has been a journalist for the magazine for about ten years and is renowned for his colourful and entertaining copy. Read more... |
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| Girls test ride XChallenge and R1200 GS - 21 June 2007 Larger-sized motorcycles are not always the first choice of bike when learning to ride off road, although two girls of a smaller stature who recently attended an Off Road Skills course begged to differ. Read more... |
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| BMW's most excellent Adventure - 14 June 2007 In the July issue of Two Wheels Only, Assistant Editor Jonathan Bentman met up with Off Road Skills Chief Instructor Simon Pavey to compare BMW's R1150 GS Adventure and the latest R1200 GS Adventure. So which one came out on top? Read more... |
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| New course dates announced - 10 June 2007 You may have the impression that every Off Road Skills course is booked out, but that's not the case. In fact, we have even added two more dates - 27-28 July and 29-30 July - to give motorcyclists the opportunity of taking part on the Level One and Two Off Road Skills courses. Read more... |
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| Riding with Jimmy Lewis - 6 June 2007 Jimmy and Heather have been the perfect hosts introducing me to Off Road California style. The morning after I arrived Jimmy had me up at 5am for an early drive to Mojave to hook up with the rest of his staff and accompany them on a euro bike test. Read more... |
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America: Here I come - 6 June 2007 |
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We see BMW's new 450 at Italian World Enduro -
29 May 2007 |
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| Girls take to the dirt -
1 May 2007 Last year we decided to start running ladies only courses to open up off road motorcycling to girls who enjoy learning in a female-only environment. Read more... |
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