A year long adventure (another Bike Squad Saga/Memories)

[BlueBull2007]

Brilliant report, have been waiting for this for a while Hoofseun.

No wonder you were so windgat at the slowest race at Countrytrax! All that army training!

 

[johang]

Hi BB

At some stage one has to come clean with all the "geraamtes in die kas"  hahaha!!

  :biggrin:

 

[BigEd]

Fanks Hoofseun! Moerse! Ek's jaloers. Moes farking loop tot waar ek moes gaan

 

[KiLRoy]

Great stuff HS - thanx for sharing

 

[iep_kruger]

dammm,,,,i really enjoyed reading this one,,,,,very green with envy

i was next door at potch field artilery and later walvis

 

[Shaun]

Jezzzzz.....that was now realyy nice to read. :thumleft: :thumleft: Would really loved to have had that opportunity to do NS on a bike. Frikking AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for sharing this RR :thumleft:

 

[The Badger]

I was in platoon 13 - 83/84 and will never forget it.

Thanks Hoofseun. :thumleft:

 

[katana]

Nice  :thumleft:

 

[Jag man]

The good days with no pay

 

[Tito]

Great to read, always loved the bike squad guys, came across many over the years as a rooineck bike mechanic working in main street ,the stories were cool ,you guys had way too much wheelie practice though flippin unfair.
I bought my first XR500 from middmacor in the box in 82, first of many !  Great bikes..
Thanks for posting really enjoyed it.

 

[Buffel Bergh]

Dankie Hoofseun. Lekker gelees en memories !!

 

[kdog]

Thank you for a great post. Special times, and you really have brought back the good memories. Well done.

 

[spoedvark]

MIN DAEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! :headbang: :salut:

 

[Lestutu]

memories ... well done for immortalising The Days Of Our Browns 

 

[Samou]

Thanks for sharing and yes I'm green with envy  :'(

 

[zetman]

.

 

[The Badger]

This was our T shirts - Platoon 13 - 83/84 Intake

 

[johang]

We had a similar one in yellow.  Wish I could find it...

 

[ThomTom]

Fantastic, "swapo is our traction", number of "dowe" Swapo's, unknown!

I can only imagine the clever people in Pretoria sitting around a table, planning this unit.  Given bikes and free petrol to some youngsters out of school sure had a different outcome than they planned. :thumleft:

The army was not the same for all and scared some more than others.  At least some skills helped us.  In 1977, I rode Honda's400 Super Sports in the army, we also had two Triumph Bonneville's, with the gear and breaks on the "wrong" side.  Still have a scar on my leg to remind me that that's confusing.

Once again Hoofseun, great report!,,

 

[whitedelight]

What a lekker read,thanks for taking  the time to write it up. And you mentioned Mosita and Stella, that is close tothe Botswana border,a lot of camps were done there.
And close to that was Pomfret,where a lot of 32 Bat were resettled when pulling out of Angola.