Recent content by Stanley from Oz

Hi Daffers, I went through the process of buying a bike in South Africa last year and wrote about it . Your find the article at "Africa Info & other International Travels", under Register a motorbike in SA by Yannis. Hope it will be of use and good luck.

Thank you JC. One of the positive aspects of my accident is that I've meet some really nice people like yourself and your family and who's hospitality and friendship will always be remembered along with the photos. I look forward to the time we can meet up again. Happy riding in beautiful Namibia.

I’ve been following  your report and found the photos and particularly the videos really great. I really got the feeling that I was riding along with you which in my present condition, was nice. The views of the roads and the scenery is an encouragement  for me to come back and explore South...

I’m on the move again but unfortunately by bus rather than bike. The damage to my bike was such that it was uneconomical to repair and the cost of shipping it back to Australia  would have been almost R40,000. At that price it did’t make any sense to ship it back. I’m going to sell the bike for...

Hi Rokie, and thanks for your offer. I will send you a PM.

Hi Ernst Jr, I'd really like to take you up on your offer once I get back to Johannesburg. It would be my pleasure to assist you or any 'wild dog' member if they were to visit Australia. The advice, assistance and hospitality that I have received on this trip has been wonderful and I'd be...

Hi, I've found some info from the 'Africa info' section on the forum about exporting to OZ but I'm going to try and get around the importation paperwork by classing my export as secondhand spare parts. Will try today and start phoning and emailing different import/export agencies for info and...

Hi and thank you Ernst Jr for that info. I'm in Cape Town now and had a quote at Donford  BMW at Stellenbosch as Atlantic Motorrad don't do motorcycles anymore. The quote is almost for the value of the bike so I'm looking at the price of shipping the bike back to Australia for spare parts for my...

Hi, I’m writing this from Windhoek. I’ve been here just over a week trying to sort out my bike and a lift either to Johannesburg or Cape Town, and thanks to Pierre (Vlakhaas) and his father, I have a ride down to Cape Town in a currier truck on Sunday 28th September. I could go on for pages with...

Have internet access so I’ve just been able to visit the forum site. The response from you guys to my situation is truly amazing and as I’m reading  through it’s almost enough to bring a grown man to tears. Thank you, thank thank for your level of concern and the lengths that you are going to to...

I headed south out of Swakopmund on a grey cloudy morning looking forward to the prospect of clearer and warmer weather as I rode east on the C14 . The gravel road was pretty good and I actually saw three other riders going east as I stopped to lower my tire pressure. When I got to the Kuiseb...

I tried to post some photos but the internet connection is too slow to post just five photos even though I've made their file size very small. I'll try resending in small batches and see what happens. The first two are of the road into Opuwo from the east. It was such a  dramatic change as the...

Thank you Vis Arend for your suggestion. Unfortunately I have not had internet access for the past five days so have only just seen your ideas whilst at the Brandberg Rest Camp at Uis. I did fortunately cover much of the route outlined by you. My actual route from Opuwo was south on the D3705...

I’m sitting at the Epupa Falls campground restaurant which overlooks the Epupa Falls, watching and listening to the water tumble down the falls.There is a small band of palm tress and other bright green vegetation which gives the place a deciding oasis feel with a distance backdrop of brown and...

Hi Vis Arend, I will try to follow the route outlined in the planning stage so from Opuwo up to Epupa Falls and return to Opuwo. Then down the D3705 to Sesfontein, C43 to Palmwag, M128  & M126 to Khorixas. then down to Uis and Henties Bay. I'll play it by ear going through the above places but I...