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edgy

Bachelor Dog
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Location
Grahamstown
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Honda XR650L
So on Thursday myself and Bouwer left for Katberg where we met the families for the weekend, TopGun joined us on Friday. We left Grahamstown under ominous skies and decided on dirt between the Ght/Bedford rd and Adelaide. The weather held but the roads were snotty! Both of us had close calls!
Although no rain, it was cold enough so we stopped off at Badaford farm stall for cofee
 

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Katberg hotel kindly allowed bikes in the golf cart parking
 

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Very nice, has Bower upgarded his KLR, very nice KTM?
 
We took a trip up to Hogsback on Sat morning on the old Seymour pass - looking gnarly again! :thumleft:
 

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We juiced up in Hogsback and had a look at the Wolfridge dam - stunning!
 

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We found this old fort on the way back, Fort Armstrong built by the British soldiers in 1830
 

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Sunday at 1pm we packed up and headed up the old Katberg/Balfour pass - still a favorite DS route!
 

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From the top of the pass we turned left towards Adelaide
 

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After stunning winter weather the whole weekend - the heavens opened and pissed on us!
 

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Bouwer never packed warm clothing and had to do the "rain" dance to keep warm :biggrin:
Between Bedford and GHT we got dealt some proper gale force winds as well, got home after dark!
 

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Oi!!! You have some stunning places to ride closeby :thumleft:
Thanks for posting.
 
Looks like a nice ride there!! Thanks for sharing.  :thumleft:

PS: That KTM looks good with the Yamaha XT screen on.  :deal:
 
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