Missing rider? Eight useful tips!︱Cross Training Adventure

crosstrainingen... You lost a rider who is seriously injured? How do you find them? How do you alert emergency services out of phone reception? Welcome to Cross Training Adventure, we are into all things dual sport and adventure on the east coast of Australia. Everyone has regrouped but there is one rider missing. A puncture? A rest break? A wrong turn? After a few minutes your thoughts turn toward a crash and you start the search. Check out our reviews of various adventure bikes and dual sport bikes. The longer it takes, the more you think of worst case scenarios. Fractures? Unconscious? Bleeding out? Dead already? Two years ago we were on a ride where a guy died on impact after riding into a ditch. The only reason we spotted him was a rider crashed nearby and spotted the fallen rider. If you like dual sport riding in Australia then you might like our adventure riding vids. More recently, another rider clipped a tree and crashed into a ditch. Unconscious. Bleed on the brain. Trapped underneath his motorbike with fuel dripping into his clothing. Thankfully he woke up and managed to weakly wave an arm and passing riders stopped and called emergency services. Keen on adventure riding in Australia? Check out our vids. It could have been much worse if we hadn't got him to hospital so quickly. Nobody likes a bunch of rules when it comes to motorbike riding. But how to find a lost rider and emergency comms are serious. But when you have lost a rider due to a serious injury, you realise a few basic rules and procedures are incredibly important. Are you into solo riding? This video has a pile of useful tips that will give your family some peace of mind. And might save your life. Our group has seen too many injuries to enjoy solo riding. A friend of mine almost died when he crashed on a short solo ride in the local forest and broke his pelvis. He had no water and was close to dying from dehydration when someone discovered him. Another friend was in a coma for two weeks after a nasty crash and still lives with the effects of a brain injury. So lets look at the all the strategies to reduce the chances of losing a rider when riding in a group. How to find them quickly. How to alert emergency services. If an injured rider is conscious, they can speak to you once you are in range. The Sena mesh technology allows the entire group to connect if riders aren't too far spaced apart. So you can actually do a head count verbally. The rider briefing. If there's anyone new to your group, discuss where you are going, how you mark your corners, and procedures if something goes wrong. It can be a good idea to share phone numbers too. Corner marking. Thre are plenty of good videos about this. It's simple but it's remarkable how often riders can mess it up. There are two general ways so make sure your riders know which one you use. Intercoms. I don't think these are essential if you have good procedures in place. But they are very useful. If riders are using the Garmin Zumo GPS you can see other riders using Garmin's Group Ride app on your phone. This is very handy as it doesn't rely on phone reception. There is a limited range but a crashed rider will show once you are within range. Apparently the Trailtech Voyager Pro this feature too with its Buddy Tracking. For Australian riders, a very useful app is Emergency Plus. We use Sena intercoms on our adventure rides. Our lead rider warns us about upcoming hazards. Cardo intercoms have the same mesh technology. Use Google Maps and share your location with other riders in your group. It's free, and you can clearly see where each rider if you have phone reception. Even if reception is patchy, Google Maps can narrow your search as it shows the last known position of a lost rider. There are other apps too such as Workyard, GPS Essentials, Spotwalla, Sygic, and Livetrack 24. Just hit one button and your location is sent to emergency services if you have phone reception. Let us know if there's a similar app in other countries and we'll include this in our pinned first comment. How to contact emergency services if you don't have phone reception? iPhone 14 and 15 phones can already use satellites to alert emergency services and communicate via text message. This will be available on the Android 15 system on phones with updated hardware. This has been confirmed for the Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S24. Hopefully we may be able to track riding buddies via satellite one day. This would make finding a lost rider much easier.
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