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I will go again with 500. 690 is too heavy for some of the sections - at least solo.

Heading back to the dirt road and down the west side of the mountains: Down in the first village I stopped for the cold Coke and then rode through uncontrolled village sprawl in the diminshing light 50 km back to Steelpoort for sleepover.

Eventually the track ended in a little decreipt kraal, from which I could clearly see the road running over the pass I was aiming for to the north. But it was still about 6 km away as the crow flies and there was no obvious track heading that way. The two locals confirmed (I think, they spoke...

I came to a crossing where the main road descended west down the mountain, while much less frequented side road continued north. I too the road north pushing hard as it was getting late and I still hoped I can make it to the pass running east west across the range at about middle of its length...

I continued further north following the dirt highway running on top of the mountain range through couple of villages:

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I hit the dirt highway meandering on top of the range with majestic views to the valleys on both sides. This again reminded to cruising on dirt roads in Lesotho. Should I have made it up one of those gnarly passes, this would have been nice rest before I hit next gnarly bit, but I was still...

So I walked back to the bike, turned around and took long way around on tar and dirt to the back of the mountain and to the top of these tracks to check them from the other side. The googlemaps one was there to my surprise (as I couldn't find any trace of it at the bottom), but not really - it...

I don't use T4A for planning. I mean I have them on GPS and in Basecamp as background, but I use satellite images and routes on Googlemaps to plot my routes. The trick to find public land is easy: I'm looking mostly in tribal lands - former homelands being prime target for best riding or at...

Little Lesotho / Kaokoland This weekend I went back to where I left off last week - to explore the mountains north of Steelpoort. Last week I got the taste of northern corner that reminded me of Kaokoland, this week I wanted to explore from the south upwards, ideally connecting to the section I...

Nah - it is the old story of frog getting cooked in slowly heated up water. It starts easy, then there is first tougher bit and you think - let's see what is further, then next and so on until that 'Oh ****' moment when you realize that it is probably preferrable to push on into unknown, rather...

Well, you are mistaken at least on two counts: - My 990s were only marginally more expensive than XRR. I paid R65k for the first one, which is probably only about R10k more than I would have to pay for reasonably well preserved XRR. - 990 battery can heal itself as was proven by this experiment...

Cheers BullFrog  :thumleft:

By the time I made it back to the bike it was raining properly and it took me good 20 minutes to get the bike unstuck from the rocks and turn it around in slippery mud. I then pushed back as quickly as I could (which wasn't much as the track was extremely slippery) trying to get out of the...

The track I have walked further up from where I got stuck. I have no idea where this track goes - cannot see where it goes on satellite images - but I will definitely be back to find out.

Just when I thought I'm out of the woods after few quite gnarly ascents, I hit the proper one and eventualy got stuck on couple of big rocks. By now I could hear thunder, so went to explore km or so further on foot to see what is in the store for me. It was getting gnarlier and gnarlier and the...

And deeper I went. Eventually i came to koppies where I had no chance to get over. I looked around and found another track, that took me up in the wrong direction but up the mountains on increasingly rocky path.

There were few dead ends usually leading to local cattle post, but reverting back to the main track allowed to get deeperand deeper into the mountains.

'Little Kaokoland', Limpopo edition On Sunday I woke up to overcast sky. I packed up and headed back to the place where I left the track yesterday. It was in the village Pelangwe about 20km away where I turned on the side road and headed for the mountains running all the way to Steelpoort...

OK, found video of Joe Rogan discussing hormone replacement therapy available to US military veterans and its benefits: https://youtu.be/9jN6eBH8CFc