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Now the last time I did a similar trip I was accused of being "obsessive" about General Christiaan de Wet.  In the national press.  In Rapport op 'n Sondag.  Ek is 'n bietjie mal.  So just for the record.  General de la Rey was the best of the lot.  And there is a specific reason to it.  When an...

Now after 117 years I set off to follow the spoor of the Boere Pimpernel.  From the Brandwater Basin to Rustenburg I am on the tracks of general de Wet, his hated 600 wagons and his beloved 2500 men.  Alone through the mountains, the Riemland, the Northern Freestate, over the Vaal, along  the...

20mb image hosting This Ride report is dedicated to the 5 OVS Artillerie Corps artillery horses that died at Modderfontein, 15km from Ventersdorp. 9th August 1900 The darkest day in my life was when I was 6 years old and my father told me we lost the Vryheidsoorlog.  I was devastated for a...

Now sometimes you have success the first time, sometimes like this story the 3rd time, and sometimes- like riding sand, you never get it right, you only get to do it beter. So twice in  the last 4 years I tried to go back to the Bosveld roads near Marken.  But everytime rain cut the effort...

So it is 117 after the Battle of Magersfontein.  And the great hero was Gen de la Rey.  But from a political and military perspective my great grandfather Gert had a lot to share with the general. So on this day I did a ride in search of the past. In search of a great general, and a proud...

The Kalaharileeu –loop becomes the Tyre lever Tour.  Pretoria through the Kalahari. Delareyville, Stella, Piet Plessis, Morokweng, Heiningvlei, Severn, Van Zylsrus, Askam, Welkom, Mier, Upington, Olifantshoek, Sishen, Kuruman, Pretoria Now for a long time I wanted to do the Kalahari.  The last...

So the heavy’s GS was now old enough for the dirt road.  3 Months.  So the lot of us decided to have a reunion.  For those who do not follow our adventures, you will not know,  that we knew something was wrong when the caravan came floating down Warmbad’s mainstreet, that Friday afternoon two...

De Reisjoernaal van h’t heer Klaas  Leeuw en een nooi van Helsdingen- Waterberg en Limpopovallei Oktober 2015 De dag van ons Heer  den 22ste Obtober 2015 Houd er rekening mee dat Het journaal van Klaas Leeuw een reisverslag en geen reisverhaal is: het was niet Klaas Leeuw doel om een zo...

Na die Noordgrens! Stofpad-trek deur Waterberg en Soutpansberg. Trek Woensdagmiddag 21 Oktober uit Pretoria weg na werk. Slaap oor anderkant Naboom. Ry Donderdag al die grondpaaie oor tot se by Swartwater. Dan die Vrydag ry ons met die grens langs en terug tot iewers naby All Days/Waterpoort...

XT-reme fun on the pans. Three days on the Botswana pans with vintage Yamaha XT500’s It had to come.  The sequel of the Pannekatte 2014 trip to the pans. https://wilddog.net.za/forum/index.php?topic=150455.msg2862120#msg2862120 Martyn, the English enduro rider By March I realized that the...

We will be traveling to the pans for a bike trip next week. The bikes we hire in Botswana, but I take my quad along on a trailer.  What do I need for the quad?  Paper wise.

For those of you that followed our Panne trip of April last year.  Well we plan to do it again.  But we need 10 riders to make it worth while.  We have 5.  Anybody interested? We leave Pretoria on 26 April and arrive the night at Lethlakane.  Then we travel for 4 days on the pans and return on...

So my heavy starts with his stories again. “Adventure!” he asks.  And my son in the Eastern Cape verlangs home so he phones me and say: “Ag please daddy won’t you take us down to Durban? All of us on the KLR.  We take along the heavy and the BeeEmWee.  When the trip is over you can go back home...

Vertrek Donderdag 6 November uit Pretoria, Harrismith.  Langs die berg grondpad af tot by Kamberg. 7 November.  3 Ouens van die Oos Kaap sluit hier aan om saam te ry.  Uit met Sanipas (drink 'n bier by hoogste pas) en terug.  Dan na Potrivierpas en Naudesnek.  Miskien ook Tiffondale met...

Ja-nee, so my heavy starts with his stories again.  He want some action.  He phones me and says we must go to a Sunday morning ride with Country TRAX and GPS4Africa.  So I am a man with a soft heart for my heavy, so he says there is only 18 other people that registered to go on the ride.  I have...

OK, it pays to be nice with people.  I invited an acquaintance of me to a weekend of bike riding in the Waterberg .   It rained the whole weekend and we had lots of fun in the mud, in the mountains.  Tertius became my friend. So two weeks later Tertius  asked  if I want to go to Botswana with...

So me and my son, the Mountain Man from the Eastern Cape, decides to make some adventure.  And also to avoid e-tolls.  Not that we are paying it.  We said we will leave Pretoria on Friday and then we goes through Warmbad, through Nylstroom, then we turn left into the Waterberg.  Then after 80km...

So my heavy and me says to each other we want adventure.  So much he wanted adventure he actually boughted  a new BMWF800 Adventure.  So we believe adventure in the Waterberg is a commodity to share.  So we invite Tertius and the rest of the JRAD (Just rode across dirt).  All three of them...

By now, just about everybody and his brother did this most traveled route.  Here is a different perspective. It is mid-December, the weather beautiful.  A famous terrorist/communist/politician/president is to be buried today.  It must be something with my eyes, but I could not see myself...

On a late January Saturday morning we set of for the Bosveld.  It is a complicated group.  Me on my 2006 KLR, the Red Mare, my heavy on his 2010 KLR, my beerman Hennie, his son Chris on his new 2010 KLR, my beerman’s son Chris’s clean father Hannes, the beerman’s other son Charl and a running...