Itchy Boots - New Season

[Hairy]

She has lost a bit of weight already on this trip, it makes you wonder if she was bulking up before the trip knowing she would be loosing weight along the way. Could be a lesson from previous trip experiences.

If this is the case, I am currently ready to do two trips around the world.

 

[Jacobsroodt]

Something else that is very peculiar is her tablet. The big one fell and broke, and she hasn't bothered to replace it, even though she must have had the opportunity to do so (it could have been sent together with the new wiring loom).
Her phone (and most probably Google Maps) is doing duty, without real complaints, which makes me think....
Maybe the big tablet is just too big, and a phone or Garmin (Circa S.7) is actually the best solution?
(the only issue I have with a phone is that one would lose connection. Garmin keeps on tracking...

 

[petri oosthuizen]

Something else that is very peculiar is her tablet. The big one fell and broke, and she hasn't bothered to replace it, even though she must have had the opportunity to do so (it could have been sent together with the new wiring loom).
Her phone (and most probably Google Maps) is doing duty, without real complaints, which makes me think....
Maybe the big tablet is just too big, and a phone or Garmin (Circa S.7) is actually the best solution?
(the only issue I have with a phone is that one would lose connection. Garmin keeps on tracking...

Syt so ronde ding ook op haar handlebar, so Garmin - rige ding
Wat is dit??
En daai fietsklokkie - hoekom is hy daar?

Daai ou Tenere loop soos 'n jet.......!!!

 

[Hairy]

Something else that is very peculiar is her tablet. The big one fell and broke, and she hasn't bothered to replace it, even though she must have had the opportunity to do so (it could have been sent together with the new wiring loom).
Her phone (and most probably Google Maps) is doing duty, without real complaints, which makes me think....
Maybe the big tablet is just too big, and a phone or Garmin (Circa S.7) is actually the best solution?
(the only issue I have with a phone is that one would lose connection. Garmin keeps on tracking...

The software she runs on her tablet, she can run on her phone.

All (Vastly most) modern smartphones have GPS built into the unit. That combined with her preloaded maps on the software she is using can certainly do the trick.

Google maps / cell phones though can also fail. Left Sunday morning on a quick exploratory loop I set up on google maps. Not 10km from home the cellphone lost GPS signal and it did not pick up the signal again till later when I got home. So the whole mapped out route could not be followed.

With a Garmin, what is the chance of loosing a GPS signal?

 

[Hairy]

Syt so ronde ding ook op haar handlebar, so Garmin - rige ding
Wat is dit??
En daai fietsklokkie - hoekom is hy daar?

Daai ou Tenere loop soos 'n jet.......!!!

I think that is her Garmin In Reach .... used for emergencies.

https://www.garmin.com/en-ZA/p/765374
https://www.garmin.com/en-ZA/p/1191310/pn/010-02887-00

 

[Jacobsroodt]

Syt so ronde ding ook op haar handlebar, so Garmin - rige ding
Wat is dit??
En daai fietsklokkie - hoekom is hy daar?

Daai ou Tenere loop soos 'n jet.......!!!

Garmin Instinct 2 horlosie. Ek het een, en dis die beste, gemaklikkste horlosie wat ek nog gehad het. Jy kan apps vir hom laai soos jy nodig het. Enige iets van hartklop tot km/h, en alles tussenin - elke Whatsapp wat ek ontvang, of as iemand die kantoor se alarm afsit wys op hom. Battery hou 28 dae.

 

[EssBee]

Nope, she has referred to a previous boyfriend,

No, not Noraly, those other two on the Triumph.

 

[BuRP]

Unfortunately she is not attracted to your kind Bart.

Tongue & groove?

Correct - and thanks for calling me kind

I thought he was a breed?

Almost Chris, but you confuse my hobby I think.....

 

[petri oosthuizen]

Nice new Episode, LOVE it
Daai girl MAG maar sand ry!!
Beautiful scenery

 

[Numsch]

Latest episode looked like awesome riding terrain! She uses the watch as her speedometer, that's how she was able to tell us the speed she was travelling although phone apps also show this.

 

[petri oosthuizen]

Latest episode looked like awesome riding terrain! She uses the watch as her speedometer, that's how she was able to tell us the speed she was travelling although phone apps also show this.

Sy ry nogal vinnig oor daai sand
Lyk so anyway

 

[jonjo]

Magic. Kom ons gaan!
Sy't my gemotiveer om offroad te begin ry en dis net soveel meer pret.

 

[Vis Arend]

She has lost a bit of weight already on this trip, it makes you wonder if she was bulking up before the trip knowing she would be loosing weight along the way. Could be a lesson from previous trip experiences.

If this is the case, I am currently ready to do two trips around the world.

Most probs from previous experience.

On one Namibia trip, I was riding my S10 with the wife as pillion, we did almost 9K km's, I lost 11kg in three and a half weeks.
On another Nam/Botswana trip, I lost 13kg, in 4 weeks, did almost 10K km's.

Any decent trip will help.

 

[sidetrack]

Has the old XT let her down yet ?

 

[EssBee]

Hows that volcano in last nights episode!?!

PS....I'm willing to bet some people have (accidently)driven/ridden into it.

 

[EssBee]

Has the old XT let her down yet ?

It only went AWOL in Iraq. Briefly.
No, except for a loose exhaust stud nut it's been fine...if my memory serves.

 

[EssBee]

her tablet. The big one fell and broke, and she hasn't bothered to replace it,

It struck me that she seemed very min-gepla about breaking that...if it was me I would have highly the moer-in.

 

[sidetrack]

It only went AWOL in Iraq. Briefly.
No, except for a loose exhaust stud nut it's been fine...if my memory serves.

Ag nee doem profete sulking in their tea no doubt

 

[Plaasseun]

Most probs from previous experience.

On one Namibia trip, I was riding my S10 with the wife as pillion, we did almost 9K km's, I lost 11kg in three and a half weeks.
On another Nam/Botswana trip, I lost 13kg, in 4 weeks, did almost 10K km's.

Any decent trip will help.

Ek het ook al gewonder of mens gewig sal verloor of optel op 'n lang trip want al wat jy doen 90% van die tyd is op jou gat sit of eet. Ek verstaan dat mens baie vog sal verloor ja

 

[Vis Arend]

Ek het ook al gewonder of mens gewig sal verloor of optel op 'n lang trip want al wat jy doen 90% van die tyd is op jou gat sit of eet. Ek verstaan dat mens baie vog sal verloor ja

Glo my, jy verloor daai gewig. Ek praat van 'n ordentlike trip, waar jy werk vir jou plesier, nie heeldag op jou gat sit nie.
En ja, met 47 grade celcuis, 8uur in die oggend in Kaokoland, verloor jy redelik, na amper te veel vog as jy nie wakker is nie, maar daai vog bou jy weer op soos die trip verloop.