Winter is approaching but I have too much rubber left on my tyres for the year. Time for a ride. The FJR is very comfortable protecting me from the cold air. Overseas I rent cheapest bikes but this is so much nicer. Just three hours away yet this is the […]
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I rode a Harley Davidson Street 750 in Oman and UAE for 7 days. This is a small review.I am not going to talk specifications, you can read that in the press release type articles published everywhere. Also I chose to rent a Street 750 purely based on it being […]
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Returning from South Africa I hopped off at Dubai to try a ride with a difference. I have a few places on my ride bucket list collectively under a subtitle of ‘maybe’. Seeing I was flying via Dubai I decided to action one of those. This I imagined would make […]
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I rode a BMW G310 from Johannesburg to Cape Town for a 10 day tour (link here). This is a small honest report on how I found the bike.Not going to rehash all the specs, heaps of press release type ‘reviews’ already published.Let me first say I chose the bike […]
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Day nine I depart Oudtshoorn and ride route 62 which seems like the route 66 of South Africa featuring in most ride reports. First up is the excellent Huisrivier pass. Then I stopped like everyone seems to at Ronnies Sex Shop. Its a bar with a story and seems uninterested […]
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Day Seven Up early today shopping for a phone. The big name models are too much but a local carrier branded Android phone is affordable. (See part two for why I am talking phones) The phone stolen was 4 years old but still ran better than this new one. Reminds […]
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Day four. Leslotho. Leaving Clarens I enjoyed more of the Golden Gate national park. Difficult to capture in a photo but grand landscapes as I had hope to see in Africa. Next stop Leslotho. Perhaps the most casual border I have crossed. A teenage guy at the immigration stamps my […]
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I have decided to bring forward the last few big ticket items on my bucket list of rides before I make excuses not to do them. One of those always included South Africa, so I am going to try ride from Johannesburg to Cape Town. It’s a very long way […]
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I hope to complete half of my initial bucket list of rides in the coming months. Every trip I gather experience to try something more ambitious. I’m riding places now solo I never imagined. This has reaffirmed I might not be a total dumbass and there is some merit to […]
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Another item ticked off my list, I rode up to Motegi to visit Honda. I was waiting for two fine days in a row, I had to settle on one and a half, the finest period for the month. To get north is either a 120km detour to avoid Tokyo […]
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Motorcycle #8 No logical reason to buy another bike at the time. Visiting the HD/BMW dealership they had one example of the final Buell XB series, a 2009 XB12R.The ongoing issues with my Brutale contributed to my decision but in hindsight I could have fixed the MV. This last model […]
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Wait! It’s not as much as it seems – just everything spread right out as next photo shows once together. I’ll list what I take for trips beyond SE Asia before showing my one way baggage method. (SE Asia far less) From the rear is my Alpinestars Andes goretex jacket. […]
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