4 Of us in Kaokoland May 2022

[silberfuchs]

Fantastic report,thank you. I read it only now. My wife and i were there in 1994 from Ruacana to Epupa Falls, van zyl's, Marienfluss, Hartmanns Valley, etc in a Land Cruiser Troopie. From Ruacana to Epupa we took about three weeks seeing exactly one HiLux bakkie with local Himbas.

My question now is: which subframe reinforcements were done on the Honda xr 650 l? The load looks impressive and you donot mention anything breaking.

I would be grateful for a short description an maybe some pics.


Thanks and good riding, G

 

[goodtoogo]

The xr650l is fitted with a "Halfdaft" rack.
Yes i was the pack mule.
With the rack fitted much of the weight is transferred to the passenger foot peg mounts.
Everything held together just fine and we did seriously rough stuff.
The sleep matt i thought was a much smaller self inflating job .
It arrived just before we left so no time for an alternative. Its not all that heavy just bulky

 

[silberfuchs]

Thanks for the answer! I grasp the principle - if ido - just support any rack, daft or not, downto the pillion footpegs.
One idiot can askmorequestions than 100qise men...
.... if youfind the time for a little photograph or two, i will include you in my new-year- wish-addressee-list.
Thanks, and in any case best off all to you, G.

 

[Chrisl]

Great trip thanks for the RR!!