lecap
Bachelor Dog
OK, this is as of now only a teaser.
We:
MacDuff on recently revived into second life XT600E,
Mango on shiny later mud splattered (like all of us) green KLR,
LeCap on Black is beautiful DR650SE,
and Mrs. LeCap with freshly printed learners and Djebel200 rescued from a miserable life as a Paarl vineyard bike
went for a day trip.
The weather forecast only gave us until late afternoon before the onset of torrential rains (torrential they were indeed!)
The date was Fathers Day.
The venue: Where ever dirt can be found.
After all our bikes warpdrives were disabled for not complying with the latest hyperspace pollution regulations Baviaanskloof and the dust canyons on 3AlphaCentauri were out of question.
The Swartland was the venue.
After leaving Bothasig we hit the first civilised (=recently graded) stretches of gravel on the far end of Malanshoogte.
Luckily there is still some gravel keeping any suicidal superbikers off the lekker stretch of winding tarmac that was added on to the road past the quarry.
From there we went across on Occultdale Rd. We got to the Eskom wind energy demonstration facility. To our disappointment they demonstrated that no energy was extracted although wind being available in cupious amounts.
Slent Road proved to be less civilised then the paths travelled previously. Potholed and bombed out as usual although it was recently fixed and quite ok compared to previous visits. I always wonder how it takes the farmers only two weeks to turn this stretch of road into a mess of potholes at any given time of the year.
More tomorrow!
We:
MacDuff on recently revived into second life XT600E,
Mango on shiny later mud splattered (like all of us) green KLR,
LeCap on Black is beautiful DR650SE,
and Mrs. LeCap with freshly printed learners and Djebel200 rescued from a miserable life as a Paarl vineyard bike
went for a day trip.
The weather forecast only gave us until late afternoon before the onset of torrential rains (torrential they were indeed!)
The date was Fathers Day.
The venue: Where ever dirt can be found.
After all our bikes warpdrives were disabled for not complying with the latest hyperspace pollution regulations Baviaanskloof and the dust canyons on 3AlphaCentauri were out of question.
The Swartland was the venue.
After leaving Bothasig we hit the first civilised (=recently graded) stretches of gravel on the far end of Malanshoogte.
Luckily there is still some gravel keeping any suicidal superbikers off the lekker stretch of winding tarmac that was added on to the road past the quarry.
From there we went across on Occultdale Rd. We got to the Eskom wind energy demonstration facility. To our disappointment they demonstrated that no energy was extracted although wind being available in cupious amounts.
Slent Road proved to be less civilised then the paths travelled previously. Potholed and bombed out as usual although it was recently fixed and quite ok compared to previous visits. I always wonder how it takes the farmers only two weeks to turn this stretch of road into a mess of potholes at any given time of the year.
More tomorrow!
