BMW ORS

[diplomaticdanny]

Did level one Friday & Saturday, booked for months, nobody expected the hottest day recorder this year in Wales on Saturday, it was a brutal 32 felt like 35 according to my app.
First hour once we’d arrived at the training ground was spent in the blazing sun laying down and picking up the bikes, didn’t realise they had sunscreen in the support van until it was too late

 

[diplomaticdanny]

Day two
Loads of aftersun overnight & loads of sunscreen in the morning.
Bike was better today after they lowered the footrests for me.

 

[diplomaticdanny]

I hate heat, really struggle over 24/25 degrees and was basically shitting myself beforehand thinking I was going to die of heat exhaustion (bit extreme I know but I am a total wuss in heat), dug my old Macna cooling vest and bought a cooling neck scarf, had a hydration rucksack with a 1 litre bladder and a 750ml chillly bottle (modified) which helped a lot, never drank so much, never peed so much, at lunch on day 2 Sarah (our superb instructor) dropped a load of white powder into a water bottle and made me drink it, worked really well, managed to complete the course apart from sitting out the hill stall lesson.
Loved it, would have loved it more if it was 10 degrees cooler though.

 

[steve hughes]

Great report thanks for posting. As you say who would forecast 32+ deg C over the weekend. Anyhow schools break up next Friday so watch the rain start as per usual

 

[Eastmidsbiker]

Fantastic, looks like a great experience despite the warm weather. Interesting that ORS seem to have dropped BMW from their branding, given KTM jumping from Sweet Lamb I wonder if thats an indicator for the future.

Nothing like messing about off-road on other peoples bikes .

 

[Toshack10]

I loved mine
Turned up on a Triumph Tiger 660 thinking I’d hate the big GS
Before I was back on the M4 I’d decided to change.

My weekend was “mildly moist”, for Wales. (Tipped down most of the time)

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

Fantastic, looks like a great experience despite the warm weather. Interesting that ORS seem to have dropped BMW from their branding, given KTM jumping from Sweet Lamb I wonder if thats an indicator for the future.

Nothing like messing about off-road on other peoples bikes .

BMW has not been dropped.
Their branding is almost all BMW based with the kit worn by the instructors being exclusively BMW.
Only other branding you’ll see there is Metzeler.

 

[Traffic893]

That must have been brutal. I was sat in a pub Saturday afternoon and that was hard work.

 

[Berin]

Well done for staying the course in that heat, it’s hard work

 

[diplomaticdanny]

Well done for staying the course in that heat, it’s hard work

Surprised myself to be honest, one of our trio didn’t do the 2nd day.

 

[The Other PaulG]

Well done Danny, glad you enjoyed it.

Were the bikes all 1300s, or was there an option of smaller bikes? I'd have thought some people would be intimidated using top-of-the-range bikes.

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

Well done Danny, glad you enjoyed it.

Were the bikes all 1300s, or was there an option of smaller bikes? I'd have thought some people would be intimidated using top-of-the-range bikes.

There’s 850’s and 900’s available however most of the time you’ll be asked if you REALLY want to ride one. Despite the weight difference - the smaller bikes are in reality much more difficult to pick up WHEN you lay them down.

 

[Mr Derek]

It lashed down for the duration of my ORS days. It made the ground much softer when we fell off (twice, for me). I absolutely loved it, but level 1 was as far as I wanted to take it. Too old and too out of condition to do level 2. I was amazed at how much I was capable of after only 2 days of top quality instruction. Highly recommended.

 

[diplomaticdanny]

Well done Danny, glad you enjoyed it.

Were the bikes all 1300s, or was there an option of smaller bikes? I'd have thought some people would be intimidated using top-of-the-range bikes.

As already replied, one of our trio booked an 850 low chassis but was talked out of it on arrival as maybe 10kg lighter but much harder to pick up as it lies flat.