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Another cause worth your time and if we can get adventure bikers involved it'll be a really good feather in the cap for the biking community! The following is off their website: "We will call on our governments to BAN the deplorable Canned Hunting Industry. We will raise awareness to educate...

Meet Gruff, he's all you'd expect from a 2cm tall wildlife enthusiast and much more. Here you can follow his antics through the African bush as he gets himself into all sorts of trouble. On a serious note, Gruff is a photography project. A light-hearted parody of life in the bush, and the...

This year seems to have an increased number of scorpion encounters. While scorpions aren't plague animals, certain weather conditions can favour them and they move around more than usual. There have been 2 fatalities that I'm aware of this season, and a number of stings across South Africa...

A message forwarded from the Endangered Wildlife Trust "We received a report on Wednesday of the alleged illegal killing of three Endangered Wild Dogs. Derek van der Merwe, Conflict Mitigation Field Officer of the EWT’s Carnivore Conservation Programme, went to investigate the incident early on...

https://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2014/01/04/dead-man-gets-overdue-e-toll-sms A man who has been dead since October 2012 received an SMS warning that he had overdue e-toll fees of R612.21, according to a report on Saturday. "I did not know whether I should laugh or cry when I received the sms...

Okay, so I'm familiar with the basics such as removing the mirrors and screen, but what do you do to get your bike ready for trail riding? What do you take off/secure/stick to your bike and what should I keep an eye on in terms of parts that regularly break off like flickers. I can't really...

Hey guys, New shape KLR. So I bought the bike with a taller windscreen, but I'm concerned that it'll break off in off-road conditions. So basically when the mirrors come off, the windscreen must come off too, much like the fancy people do with their fancy BMWs :peepwall: Trouble is that the...

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but what the hell... So we've struggled like mad in the past to find a way of accommodating bikers on our nature reserve (Witsand Kalahari Nature Reserve, Northern Cape) but at the same time keeping the @#$^% hooligans out. Or...

So, we have 3 bikes. A BMW 650 Sertao, A KLR 650 and a Big Boy 250. Now here's the thing that I can't understand... Why do the different adventure bike manufacturers make all sorts of ridiculous chain adjustment mechanisms while the cheapest and simplest solution is that little notched disc...

So, the GP's seem to have it all figured out, but there's a bunch of conflicting reports and general confusion relating to what e-tolling will do to people who aren't from Gauteng and don't travel through the area often. Seems like nobody really knows what'll happen. Can anyone clarify as to...

Ola two-wheeled connoisseurs... So, say you're stuck on the side of a road somewhere with a flat tyre and need to remove the wheel, what is the safest way to do so with as little risk of damaging the bike? I have a centre-stand, so removing the rear wheel is pretty straight forward. I strap...

I seem to be in the very distinct minority of bikers who ride slowly. That's partly why I ride alone, a group will get annoyed with me and I'd probably feel like we've rushed it. I cruise at around 60km/h for the good/moderate bits and reduce in technical stuff but pretty much never go faster...

I've been part of this venture for a while. The Virtual Museum is a really fantastic project run by the Animal Demography Unit. It's worth supporting, easy to use and it's one of the most valuable projects for conservation in our beautiful country. Guys, adventure riders travel a lot and it...

I recently bumped into a thread discussing armour use and it seems that there's quite a story to be told regarding protection. I've kept the options simple to prevent vote dilution, so if you wear some variant that doesn't quite fit the options, pick the one closest to what you use. The brands...

Hey guys, I've noticed that Camelbaks are pretty much double the price of any other hydra-pack brand and was wondering whether the price tag was worthwhile. I have a cheap Terra-Firma hydra-pack that's lasted for years, but I've never fallen on top of it. Logic says that the Camelbak bladder...

Hey everyone, I own a pair of Thor Quadrant boots, they're fantastic - really tough and yet quite comfortable for longer rides. There's  one major drawback to them though - gear shifting... :xxbah: Gearing down isn't a problem, but gearing up is a bloody nightmare sometimes. The boot is very...

Okay, I know KLR's are rattlers - blurred vision and loose tooth fillings are pretty much part of the game. This is different. I recently installed a set of Bark Busters on the my 2007 KLR and had to remove the end weights. (The bike had a cruise control friction lock installed with an...

Hey everyone, I've been interested in bikes for ages, and I've been a fly on the wall at all the Country Trax courses on sand riding at Witsand Kalahari Nature Reserve as the course photographer. Now I'm the very happy owner of a 2007 Kawa KLR650. My first adventure bike so now I won't have...