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Our Sunday ride to Vredefort on the XPulses. What a lekker ride! We live in such a cool place.

I’m going to try the top speed run again but this is for something else. I’m trying to cover a long distance only on dirt.

People of the Wild Dog Forum. I’m in need of advice. I’m looking for a long gravel road or route with which to cover distance. I can’t get into why right now, but it doesn’t need to go anywhere in particular, but if it can be not too far from Johannesburg then that would be more convenient. I’m...

It's true. There's an ogre living inside the motor of the new Transalp 750. His name is Edward. Most people attribute the torquey, grunty nature of the new Transalp 750 with a well-designed parallel-twin 750 motor with a 270º crank. They're wrong. If you open up the motor of the Transalp, you...

Gloriously!

I'm more than a year in with mine too. 8000km largely on dodgy dirt roads. No problems to report.

A friend of mine bought one with a rally kit about a month or two ago. There was one on the Fire It Up showroom last week.

The base XPulse is still R49,000. The Rally kit is around R16,000 extra, and then you basically have a road legal enduro bike. The XPulse, even in base trim, is a better off-road bike with better suspension, more protection and a 21-inch front. The V-Strom has a more powerful engine and is more...

The previous 250 V-Strom, that has since been discontinued in SA, was a parallel-twin and designated the DL250 like its 1050 bigger boetie. This new one is the DS250SX V-Strom packs a little adventure punch for just R58,000. If you ask me, that's a damn good price for any adventure machine.

Suzuki hosted the launch of the DE version of its 1050 V-Strom in KZN, riding through both the countryside and the densely populated villages with roads ranging from dirt to tar roads who are trying to be dirt. The DE is the more offroady version of the V-Strom with longer suspension travel...

Apparently, links to Facebook events don't work. Kindly RSVP here, then. 😅

We are doing the next XPulse XPedition on Sunday 28 May to Jericho Rock. We meet at Mulligans Pub near Harties (https://goo.gl/maps/4N8QHwPjYseHEjU3A) at 8am to leave at 9. We will travel up the famous Canal Road towards Jericho Rock (https://goo.gl/maps/PijeitdB7vSpcMFHA). There we will have...

Here's my ride with Ferrari, the Fearless Hero XPulse, up Jericho Rock in North-West Province. Look out for details of a ride there I'm busy planning:

A KTM engineer told me that all the bits they have to add in order to meet Euro5 regulations, in total, add up to 40kg!

So this was a gas. Thankfully, smaller adventure bikes (500cc and less) are becoming more popular in SA. Thank goodness, because the alternative is not riding motorcycles and that indeed would be tragic. At the end of last year, Honda SA introduced the CB500X to the smaller bike fray, so we...

If you want to go more then 200 km/h on a dirt road, I might suggest the 1290.

It’s called stupidity. It runs strong in my family. 🤓

Cheers! 🤗 My dad got 239km/h on a dirt road. I need to find a road to do that!

A couple of weeks ago, we got our hands on two KTM 1290 Super Adventures – both an S and an R. The S is good fun, especially if you're vertically challenged like me. And it will go further down the dirt path than most people would be willing to believe, but South Africa is a special place. The...

The launch of the Expedition took place around Hazyview where we got to ride the roads, both tar and dirt but mostly dirt. The Expedition comes with more punch – a big bash plate, 20mm more suspension, a higher screen, more electronics standard, a centre-stand standard, soft luggage, more...