Sand Driving?

**hiline** · 16th May 2005, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by Ace
Hi Dac, i dont know where you are located, but if you are close to sydney the LROC of Australia Sydney Branch is holding a driver training weekend on the 28th and 29th of this month, you would of course have to join if you havent already, but they are training at the AWABA Training facility just south of Newcastle on the saturday and then doing beach training on stockton beach on the sunday. PM me if you need any details, i can give you the email address of the training coordinator if you need it. Matt

or even save your membership fee and ride with ace :wink: :wink:

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 17th May 2005, 07:08 AM

There you go Dac,,

great advice from some very experienced drivers,,

my 2 cents,,,

driving on hard sand requires minimal input or thought
The softer the sand, the more "on top of your game" you have to be,
this means
gears, tyre pressure, engine revs all have to be spot on BEFORE you get there,

add an uphill or slow point(bend) and it just adds that much more to your thinking and enjoyment!

oh and as a fun thing, try doing donuts ( not too fast [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img] )with and without the CDL,
the difference is amazing

Dac · 17th May 2005, 02:48 PM

Thanks very much everyone - invaluable advice! The drive is on the north coast, so no it's not desert. But it is tidal so if I buggered it up I'd be underwater in 4-6hrs.....ooops! I will try and do a course. i am situated in Kiama, south of Wollongong. I can't make that weekend of the 28th/29th unfortunately. My experience is usually driving through paddocks after horses - bush bashing really. It can get quite muddy & boggy,so you do often have to reverse out the way you came in.

thanks again everyone.
keep the tyres to 18psi and keep rolling!
Dac

**Ace** · 17th May 2005, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by Dac
Thanks very much everyone - invaluable advice! The drive is on the north coast, so no it's not desert. But it is tidal so if I buggered it up I'd be underwater in 4-6hrs.....ooops! I will try and do a course. i am situated in Kiama, south of Wollongong. I can't make that weekend of the 28th/29th unfortunately. My experience is usually driving through paddocks after horses - bush bashing really. It can get quite muddy & boggy,so you do often have to reverse out the way you came in.

thanks again everyone.
keep the tyres to 18psi and keep rolling!
Dac

No worries Dac, my advice is to join the club anyway, check out www.lroc.com.au all the info is on there, you dont have to go to meetings to be a member, i live in lithgow and never go to meetings. They have all the dates for the trips and training weekends on the site there is another one in August i think before the next advanced training weekend in september. Matt

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