Riding offroad alone...

[HP2Mav]

So what are your thoughts on this?

Personally, riding with friends is safer and more fun - but my life makes it hard to plan riding with friends... so I ride a fairly regularly on my own, nothing too serious but is a different sort of challenge... it certainly focuses the mind, especially on a big bike!

So what about you? Any of you venture off road on your own?

[CRAIGREVO]

Id say its the same as road riding on your own, its still great fun but always better/safer in a group.
On the other hand you are more likely to show off and get hurt in a group.

We should try organizing a monthly ABR ride so people know in advance what day it will be.

[dusi]

Prefer to mainly ride on me own, Mr Grumpy

[africajim]

I quite often ride alone, nothing wrong with that, I just take my camera and off I go. Whether it be on or offroad, I tend to take care. As long as you don't take silly chances you should be fine.

[HP2Mav]

Well it's refreshing to hear people be so relaxed about it.

In other places, I've heard people be very judgmental about it which I find pretty annoying!

As you've said - as long as your sensible and take precautions (like making sure someone knows approx where you are when you should be back!) it's not that dangerous.

[herman]

I go out alone on occaision but take it steady as has been said. If you are that concerned the good old route plan left with loved ones is a good idea although this has backfired on me once as i met an old friend in a petrol station and sat jawing for an hour,wife was not happy when she spotted me 2 mins from home sat with a coffee :whistle: I run with mooses f&b so dont have puncture worries any more.

[Mark Manley]

I generally ride on or off road on my own as I like to stay at my own pace, ususally slower than most others, but will concede that there is a social aspect missing from this and picking your bike up on your own can be no fun.

[mark1150]

As an exile, ( my friends are all back in London )and none of them venture off road anyway, I've pretty much always been alone.
I did have a few rides with the Surrey TRF years ago, which was fun, but you tend to go at their pace and their prefered destinations, so in the end I just ended up prefering to be alone.
I wouldn't call it dangerous, well not especially so, and the only trouble that I've had was a blown head gasket on the old KTM.... TOUCHES WOOD, AND FONDLES A RABBITS FOOT!
I do wish sometimes that there was someone to act as official photographer though, the pix get boring with just the bike and the landscape.

[scouse]

Ah the Bikers Holiday Snaps... my bike... my bike amd landscape...my bike and another my bike and landscape...

[ipswichbiker]

Also like the idea of a monthly ABR ride. Dusi your desire to ride alone... is that something you've always had or just recently ?? (after your ride with me!)