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Yeah mate sorry, I'm still in Nairobi. Bike is packed, but I'm sleeping here tonight, riding tomorrow (hopefully climbing tomorrow) home on the 12th then do the writeup as quickly as I can, but it's earliest next week!

But hold yer horses there amigos. You can’t just jump into something like climbing Lengai without putting in some legwork first! Early November, Wry and I pinky-swore we’d go to Lengai, so that meant booking the digs and making some effort to get fit enough for the climb. The mountain is 2...

Return to the Valley of the Mountain of God! Back in December 2019, before Covid lockdown madness, PCR tests and other global horse manure, Wry and I set off on a pilgrimage to the Valley of the Mountain of God. The Mountain of God – Oldoinyo Lengai – a semi-dormant volcano sat on the floor of...

@Grunder - Yeah, this place never ceases to amaze. That public holiday was announced late last week. How stupid, simply, stupid. And we did plan to ride, but it was absolutely pissing with rain and I knew it wasn't worth trying to get guys to suck it up. I ended up going today instead down to...

@Chrisl - Hehehe... Wry has a long standing and very annoying habit of finding ways to put "that's what she said" or "reminds me of an ex girlfriend" behind the most benign phrases to make them into a sexual innuendo. Turnabout's fair play I reckon! @Grunder - The saga of the navigation system...

Bank Holiday Rapid Escape Ride Long overdue overnight trip planned! Wry and I were going to do blitz out of Nairobi after work, rip up to Suswa, binge on sausages, beer and whisky and then do a long ride home. Perfect way to spend a public holidays that falls on a Tuesday. Above: Yeah baby...

Yeah, I've been unable to find out what that plant is. I wonder if it's related to a Baobab since it's got very few leaves and an oversized body. For all I know they're hiding the cure for cancer under that ugly exterior.

Solo Scouting Luggas and maybe Lakes Three weeks in a row! Now we’re making up for lost time. Still only day-trips, but I’ll take what I can get. Panic was busy so I decided to do a solo mission to check out an interesting spot on the landscape way down by the border of Tanzania. When I’m...

Mt. Olegorsailie Run Two weeks in a row! That’s a trend I’d like see continue. If I can’t get in a long trip, a weekly day-ride with Panic is the next best thing. This time the destination was Mt. Olegorsailie, one of the many extinct volcanoes dotting our backyard and a place I only climbed a...

An excellent day trip out to the valley with my best mate Panic that almost didn’t happen. Departure time was set and I was there. The Rubis in the ‘hood under a sudden drizzle. I knew before I checked my phone what I’d see… a message from Panic, “Feck this shit, I’m not going anywhere. Let’s...

Been too long! It’s many years since I’ve been on a proper ride with Kolobus. Now he’s back in Nairobi with an XRR and we’re trying to make up for lost time! Sadly, stitching together epic rides of over a week (like the one we did HERE where we camped in a washout, nearly croaked in the heat of...

Osadabwa returns to Zambia Once every couple of years I fly back to Zambia to check on an agricultural project I’m involved with. Wasn’t sure it would happen this year, but at the last minute I found myself on a highly overpriced KQ flight bound for Livingstone flying past Kilimanjaro and Mt...

Panic recovered from whatever was ailing him so we scratched a ride into the calendar for Sunday. Plan was to go all the way down to the Tanzania border to see if a faint track I’d been ogling on Google Earth was passable. Since it was up on some hills, the chances were 50/50 but I'll take those...

Longonot Lemonade Ride Long overdue ride at last! Three days free of responsibility! Camping gear packed. Bike in tip-top-condition. Panic and I have been dying to get out of dreary Nairobi and the day is finally upon us! We’re going down to Nguruman to find new tracks, baby yeah! New...

Hey all, I didn't mean to imply I want to leave WD, just that it seems the forum has been having financial difficulties and I personally wonder if the Ride Report style is long for this world. Barely anybody reads them and even fewer write them. I write them as a record for my mates and I to...

A few weeks ago I had a chance to get a pair of SUMO wheels for my XR650R. They're on sale from a fellow Pig Lover in South Africa who wasn't using them anymore, so I had to take the chance to bring them up to Kenya. They arrived last week and I couldn't wait to put them on the bike to see how...

(B)rain damaged... Just a bit painful how many weeks are squeezing between rides these days. Alas! This time a combination of work and torrential rains were to blame, and after I saw a couple of wild videos showing my otherwise dry-as-bones slice of the Rift Valley under water I had to go see...

Hey man, happy reading! FYI I pulled the trigger on the FCR carb. I've been keen to try one for a while now. My mate Panic thinks it's the bee's knees. If I can't make it work, I'll hit you up for the OEM one you've got! The header pipe I really want is an FMF Powerbomb. I have that plus the...

Hey, I may be interested in the standard carb if the FCR doesn't work out. Hope to know soon. I may pop the old header on, but in the past I didn't enjoy it (though that may have been me not matching the jetting right... I've learned a lot in 8 years of Pig Wrangling). I have all the mods you...