The Badger
Race Dog
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2009
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- Bike
- BMW R1200GS Adventure
We met at Ryder in Hillcrest at 7 for departure at 7h30.
I invited customers from Ryder as well as all wild dogs and what a turnout it was. 19 bikes in total with two bikes carrying pillions.
6 x Adv , 1 x Gs’s(1200), 4 x GS800’s , 2x 650 Dakar’s , 1 x 650 GS , 1 x xT660z , 2 x 950 Ktm’s , 1 x Ktm 690 and 1 x Klr.
The dogs where EssBee and Michelle, GundaGunda, 777 , Wildoc , JonW, Lamo and myself and Fran.
We rode through Botha’s Hill and dropped into the Valley of a Thousand hills. We had some steep downs on some slippery surfaces. The views where spectacular and the day perfect.
We turned onto a nice single path next to the Inanda river and the solo faster guys went on ahead while the pillions and slower riders brought up the rear. We had the first stop on some Gnice(Thanks Peter) then proceeded towards Nagel Dam.
On one of the downs Gunda had an off and unfortunately broke his left thumb. Luckily we had Leon from Pmb who is a doctor and he strapped Peters thumb with duct tape and he managed to ride back to hospital on his own. Hope you heal fast Gunda.
We then headed back towards Inanda dam and stopped on Mtata mountain overlooking Inanda Dam. From there we headed towards Butlers Farm.
Along the way Fran and I rode past a Black Mamba trying to cross the road and as I passed it it struck at our bike………….Fran and I shat ourselves. Never a dull moment in the valley.
Unfortunately, Grant on a 800GS tangled with a grassy middle manetjie and broke his leg in two places. The ambo was with us within 30 min and he is in Westville hospital. Heal fast Grant.
Other than the mishaps it was great to be out in the Valley for the day.
Thanks to everyone who made it and to JonW and Wilddoc for coming down from Hilton.
I invited customers from Ryder as well as all wild dogs and what a turnout it was. 19 bikes in total with two bikes carrying pillions.
6 x Adv , 1 x Gs’s(1200), 4 x GS800’s , 2x 650 Dakar’s , 1 x 650 GS , 1 x xT660z , 2 x 950 Ktm’s , 1 x Ktm 690 and 1 x Klr.
The dogs where EssBee and Michelle, GundaGunda, 777 , Wildoc , JonW, Lamo and myself and Fran.
We rode through Botha’s Hill and dropped into the Valley of a Thousand hills. We had some steep downs on some slippery surfaces. The views where spectacular and the day perfect.
We turned onto a nice single path next to the Inanda river and the solo faster guys went on ahead while the pillions and slower riders brought up the rear. We had the first stop on some Gnice(Thanks Peter) then proceeded towards Nagel Dam.
On one of the downs Gunda had an off and unfortunately broke his left thumb. Luckily we had Leon from Pmb who is a doctor and he strapped Peters thumb with duct tape and he managed to ride back to hospital on his own. Hope you heal fast Gunda.
We then headed back towards Inanda dam and stopped on Mtata mountain overlooking Inanda Dam. From there we headed towards Butlers Farm.
Along the way Fran and I rode past a Black Mamba trying to cross the road and as I passed it it struck at our bike………….Fran and I shat ourselves. Never a dull moment in the valley.
Unfortunately, Grant on a 800GS tangled with a grassy middle manetjie and broke his leg in two places. The ambo was with us within 30 min and he is in Westville hospital. Heal fast Grant.
Other than the mishaps it was great to be out in the Valley for the day.
Thanks to everyone who made it and to JonW and Wilddoc for coming down from Hilton.
