Dorsland
Bachelor Dog
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2012
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- Honda CRF 300L
I haven't been for a ride for a few weeks now so this morning I decide I'll do a ride out to Murraysburg and loop back around Nieu Bethesda and back home again. Spent Thursday evening plotting a route on BaseCamp and planned to leave around 06h00 this morning to miss the worst of the heat (it's been in the high 30s this week but today it's a warmish 40º)
So after turning my office upside down between 05h00 and 06h00 looking for the USB cable for the Garmin GPS62s so I could download the route onto the GPS, I decided to load Murraysburg as a waypoint and go from there. See this shout for help: https://wilddog.net.za/forum/index.php?topic=141854.msg2716369#new
Eventually got away at around 07h30 and already it was lekker hot. The first part of my route takes you over the Sundays River about 9 times and all the crossings are these concrete driffies. I managed to cross the first 2 without any problem although I noticed that the heat had caused a lot of algae growth on the concrete.
Then, driffie number 3, whoa Trigger! In the foreground is where I lost it and the bike (and I) slid right across, collecting moss and algae as we went. :biggrin:
I was also reconverted to full face helmets as I fell full on my chin and broke the dust cover off the chin part of my Uvex. (Another shout for help: is this part available as a replacement part for the Uvex?)
With the low sticktion of the algae, no bodily damage was incurred by me and the only damage to the XR was the RH handguard that shifted position. Out with the Allenkey wrench and all was well. OK besides the fact that I and the XR now looked like swamp monsters. But it was nice and cool standing in the river :biggrin:
So after turning my office upside down between 05h00 and 06h00 looking for the USB cable for the Garmin GPS62s so I could download the route onto the GPS, I decided to load Murraysburg as a waypoint and go from there. See this shout for help: https://wilddog.net.za/forum/index.php?topic=141854.msg2716369#new
Eventually got away at around 07h30 and already it was lekker hot. The first part of my route takes you over the Sundays River about 9 times and all the crossings are these concrete driffies. I managed to cross the first 2 without any problem although I noticed that the heat had caused a lot of algae growth on the concrete.
Then, driffie number 3, whoa Trigger! In the foreground is where I lost it and the bike (and I) slid right across, collecting moss and algae as we went. :biggrin:
I was also reconverted to full face helmets as I fell full on my chin and broke the dust cover off the chin part of my Uvex. (Another shout for help: is this part available as a replacement part for the Uvex?)
With the low sticktion of the algae, no bodily damage was incurred by me and the only damage to the XR was the RH handguard that shifted position. Out with the Allenkey wrench and all was well. OK besides the fact that I and the XR now looked like swamp monsters. But it was nice and cool standing in the river :biggrin:
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