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Just had my first Dakar moment watching this video of Lyndon Poskitt who competed in the Malle Moto Class Dakar 2017, its going to be tough, I will fight to the end for the friends and family that got me here, living this ultimate dream, #mydaringadventure[emoji109]...

Me having some fun on the beach with my new Dakar kit, I must say, It all come out pretty spectacular and Oakpics doing an even better job making me looking like a Pro. https://www.facebook.com/donovan.langenberg/posts/10154904707292330 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And then there is the stickers, proudly Sponsored by Stefan Kleyn, at least my bike will look like a winner all the time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And then there is the Rally Jacket, who is the best and where do we buy at what price. Gerrit du Toit offered to help in this department, his wife Marique is a designer of note with some rad skills. After about 3 prototypes and “some” testing by myself and Willem du Toit we now have locally...

As we, the #originalsbymotul (malle moto) will be sponsored at the Dakar by Motul with all our lubricants, Motul SA have kindly supported me with some products to familiarize myself with the products that they will supply us riders at Dakar. They do have some nice products. Sent from my...

This one.... just because I can Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And then there is my riding partner, Robert Adams who eats my dust and have my back all the time. We luv what we do, Just Ride Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And the training never stopped, an altitude mask set at 4800 and a lot of swimming to get the lungs ready for altitude. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Superman aka Kobus Potgieter has been my mentor in this journey to Dakar, we share the same race number, hopefully this number, 125, will be good for me to. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just making sure I can change an engine for just in case, thanks Kobus Potgieter for trusting me in stripping and rebuilding your KTM 450 RFR, easy peasy i must say Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Made it onto Radio Tygerberg with Superman and David Thomas, a first for me, must say intimidating but a good feeling. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Now the next stage is the stickers, this ant just plakking a sticker on a bike, these guys are serious about them stickers. This was the proud moment, look at that, dreams do come true, yes the Dakar is only in January but seeing this is another level. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Balise is a sort of Panic Button(distress beacon), all hell breaks lose when this button is pressed for an emergency, Your race is over, Bart told me that they cable tie the Balise device so that when you want to push it you must make extra effort to go out of the race. Sent from my iPhone...

All good John, I have to share this with everyone, it makes my journey so much memorable Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The prep on these machines are top class, just looking at the finer details, you can see that time has been spend on getting them ready for Dakar, I am so glad that I made the decision to get a bike prepped by Bart, my gut feeling says that if I do not crash this bike to pieces it will easy make...

The rain did not stop us and we started the fit the ERTF Gps unit, this is the unit on the handle bars, the Irritrack unit is the blue box on the side of the nav tower, the wiring and brackets must be done before hand ready to fit the units, the Balise is a sort of Panic button, if you press...

This is why I paid the money to come to France, meeting my rally bike, prepped by Bart from the Bass Dakar team, for the first time. Fellow Dakar competitors Willem and Gerry are in the Bass Dakar team and their teams bikes would also be going trough pre-scrutineering to be loaded onto the boat...

After the presentation we had a chance to meet and great all the big guns but it was chaos as al the media swamped all the Dakar Legends, I had a quick bite to eat, fancy finger foods, and headed off as I had to travel to Le Havre 200km East where I decided to overnight. My convocation was at...

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