What a Day ;D
Started off with 8 Dogs
Then 2 left and 6 continued.
300Kms
2 Punctures
2 Falls
Loads of Fun
We all met up at The Sasol Cnr H Potgieter and N14
I'm not good with names so please forgive me
We Had
Jules KLR
Li KLR
Pistol KTM 525 (I think)
Shane (WD Nick?) 1200GS
Usurper 650GS
Philip (Not a WD YET) 800GS
Stroom 650GS
Zerc 1150GS
Meet and Greet
Pistol and Shane had other commitments so they headed back at the halfway point to Potch, Nice to have you guys along.
We had a VERY hot summers day with loads of varying terrain to keep things interesting
As usual the service roads were fantastic its lovely to have the roads to yourself with no other traffic about, not counting the odd squirrel, Buck, guinea fowl or pedestrian.
Li at the first rest stop
The Little hill. A sudden drop with nice lose rocks, just right to get the blood pumping
We got to Potch at around 10am and had a lekka breekie at Die Akker Restaurant. Good Food!
Zerc had to head home so he left Potch via tar after brunch.
The Remaining few hopped on the nearest service road towards Fochville and on to Lenasia.
At one point we had to turn around on the tweespoor and Philip had the good luck to drop his BRAND new F800GS with no one around to take any pictures. It was a very slow speed drop so no damage to the bike the rider did damage his foot a little, but I don't think it was too bad. He didn't want to re enact the drop for us to capture on film so you have to take my word for it ;D
Stroom's rear tire started loosing air and we "Bombed" it a few times on the way home but eventually we had to "repair" the leak
Tubeless for the Win. It took a few minutes and we were on our way again.
Hmmmm Rusty Nail!
Towards the end of the trip Stroom, Usurper and I did the mountain crossing which was a lot of fun, Usurper was so happy at how well he handled the technical stuff he decided to do a HARD dismount where we joined up with the sand roads again. It looked spectacular with loads of dust and broken indicators all over the place. Nothing to serious and Bike and Rider were back on the road in no time although I'm sure he will be a little stiff in the morning
Stroom did take some pics I'm sure he will post them soon.
From there it was a sort sandy stretch back to tar that led us via Krugersdorp to home. Now this should be the end of the report but wont you know it 3km's from home Li gets a puncture and as USUAL its the rear wheel I was about to do the whole tube replacement thing but decided to call our friendly neighbor to come and fetch the bike in his bakkie. Its standing outside with flat wheel. I will get to it later Ek is nou moeg!
Thanks so much for joining us on this ride it was fantastic to spend the day out with you!
Till the next one
Jules and Li
Started off with 8 Dogs
Then 2 left and 6 continued.
300Kms
2 Punctures
2 Falls
Loads of Fun
We all met up at The Sasol Cnr H Potgieter and N14
I'm not good with names so please forgive me
We Had
Jules KLR
Li KLR
Pistol KTM 525 (I think)
Shane (WD Nick?) 1200GS
Usurper 650GS
Philip (Not a WD YET) 800GS
Stroom 650GS
Zerc 1150GS
Meet and Greet
Pistol and Shane had other commitments so they headed back at the halfway point to Potch, Nice to have you guys along.
We had a VERY hot summers day with loads of varying terrain to keep things interesting
As usual the service roads were fantastic its lovely to have the roads to yourself with no other traffic about, not counting the odd squirrel, Buck, guinea fowl or pedestrian.
Li at the first rest stop
The Little hill. A sudden drop with nice lose rocks, just right to get the blood pumping
We got to Potch at around 10am and had a lekka breekie at Die Akker Restaurant. Good Food!
Zerc had to head home so he left Potch via tar after brunch.
The Remaining few hopped on the nearest service road towards Fochville and on to Lenasia.
At one point we had to turn around on the tweespoor and Philip had the good luck to drop his BRAND new F800GS with no one around to take any pictures. It was a very slow speed drop so no damage to the bike the rider did damage his foot a little, but I don't think it was too bad. He didn't want to re enact the drop for us to capture on film so you have to take my word for it ;D
Stroom's rear tire started loosing air and we "Bombed" it a few times on the way home but eventually we had to "repair" the leak
Tubeless for the Win. It took a few minutes and we were on our way again.
Hmmmm Rusty Nail!
Towards the end of the trip Stroom, Usurper and I did the mountain crossing which was a lot of fun, Usurper was so happy at how well he handled the technical stuff he decided to do a HARD dismount where we joined up with the sand roads again. It looked spectacular with loads of dust and broken indicators all over the place. Nothing to serious and Bike and Rider were back on the road in no time although I'm sure he will be a little stiff in the morning
Stroom did take some pics I'm sure he will post them soon.From there it was a sort sandy stretch back to tar that led us via Krugersdorp to home. Now this should be the end of the report but wont you know it 3km's from home Li gets a puncture and as USUAL its the rear wheel
I was about to do the whole tube replacement thing but decided to call our friendly neighbor to come and fetch the bike in his bakkie. Its standing outside with flat wheel. I will get to it later Ek is nou moeg!Thanks so much for joining us on this ride it was fantastic to spend the day out with you!
Till the next one
Jules and Li
