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Tom, this is complete bro-science, but I would strongly recommend that you have good look at TRT (Testosterone replacement therapy) - and rather than faffing around probably try it out for 2 -3 months. Look it upon google and youtube - plenty of testimonials (positive and negative). My...

By now it was late - way past 4 pm, so I decided to finish the last 10 km or so where the river entered into the mountains - followed by dirt track - and at the dam on the other side hit tar and gun it down to Steelpoort for overnight. The track running through the mountains was a welcome change...

At the bottom of the hills in the village of Nkotokwane I have crossed the river at the point where local cars cross to the village of Apel on the other side:

Once back to the river, the vegetation got greener and more rivery. It was bloody hot, but as long as I stayed out of experimental forrays into the thorns and hence was able to keep up 40 kmh or more, bearable. I was also getting closer to the mountains I wanted to explore next. Originally I...

I have made a detour from the river to investigate sandy tracks I have seen more to the north, before returning back to the river further east:

The track after km or few turned away from the river and I went bundu bashing hoping to reconnect to another one in km or so. It was there, but too much work to crash through the bushes (I walked to find it), so I returned to the original track which took me to a village about 4 km away and...

Oliphant river run & 'Little Kaokoland' - Oct 2020 Last weekend I wanted to do another Bots fence run, but the work intervened and I couldn't leave on Friday afternoon. So in a spur of a moment I changed the plans and decided to head early morning Saturday to Limpopo again. Few days before I...

Hmmm, so I really was basically at the end of the rough stuff, and then turned back to drag my wounded swingarm through the rocks again...c >:(

That is the spot where I turned back last time after I found my swingarm has big crack. So I haven't seen the rest of the track to the tar and I hope it is pretty rough, because if not then I should have just pushed on last time and finish it... ;)

Come on Jacques - don't get greedy. That one is fully tractable on googlemaps, I have ridden it a year ago when I was just following Minxy's tracks (  Minxy ). So if anything it should be called Minxy pass. BTW it is an easy dirt road, but very scenic so if you ar gunning it back to GP from...

I called it OB side entry as the matter of speaking as that is what it kind of is. I doubt it has any official name. If you want to make a mark in the history, this area gives you some opportunities to name routes / passes. For example 'Penge pass' was I believe named by Jacques 'Livingstone'...

Well done!  :thumleft: I was also riding in that area (not Lekgalameetse - about 20 km west as the crow flies) and was pretty sure that you guys have no chance to do the full route (including that side dash up OB pass) in that heat. I was struggling in the sand and was little worried that you...

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Yes, indeed very nice of him. Though his wife is starting to suspect more serious relationship given this was the second time in half a year he had to drop everything, load the gun and come fetch me... >:D

We live and learn...  8)

I cleared the bottom half that last time took me good 4 hours (with all the ****-ups) within an half an hour or so and hit the upper part with majestic views of the Caledon river valley below: Top of the pass with storm brewing on the horizon...

Old Mill Drif Road - part 2 I don't like unfinished business, so two weeks later with lockdown about to kick in I gunned it back down for second serving, this time on more appropriate 690. And on that bike OMD is a breeze, so I have no drama to repor, so I will let mostly the pictures tell the...

Did I say that? Sorry, cannot recall the comment now, maybe I was trying to be funny. I do generally like to push the envelope on the trips and get out of the comfort zone. Maybe you are referring to a comment I made that I prefer nice lodge to camping, which I definitely do. But when there is...

Runner eventually arrived later than expected in the oposite direction from the top of the pass as the road deteriorated significanty since the last time he was there about 25 years ago. After the standard exchange of niceties centered around the root words '****' and 'twasshole' we loaded the...

Once the temperature raised and my blood started circulating again, I shed some layers, broke the camp (i.e. picked up the **** from the ground) and packed up everything on the bike. Runner said he is going to start early, but I didn't expect him before 10:00 am, so once packed with nothing else...