Adventure touring MANAGING RISK

“TIME SPENT IN RECONNAISSANCE IS RARELY WASTED”
GLADYS H, SCOTLAND, 1980

HERE’S ANOTHER OF our articles to get you ready for the road, once it’s open again. The Bear says that this is the best preparation for overseas medical trouble he’s ever seen.

We humans are wired for pleasure and joy. This article is neither. So, if you are reading this, and don’t recognise that sometimes it’s necessary to dwell on more serious matters, then think again. Hard.

Many of us riders go Adventure Touring – going to destinations across our land or across the world. It’s great when everything goes well. But what about when it all goes wrong?

This article hopefully points out some lessons learned from our recent experience of dealing with the unpleasant circumstance of an injury (my wife Yvonne’s severely broken leg) while riding in the remote location of Tajikistan.

But first to the above quote. I had the privilege back in 1980 of knowing a wonderful lady, Gladys H. She was a smoking, whisky-drinking retired high school mathematics teacher. She was also one of the unique team of code breakers at Bletchley