Oppipanne and the Hunters Road

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We exchange pleasantries and Im on my way common instruction is just go straight ....

 

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Elephant tracks everywhere they cover the ground !

 

[EssBee]

Wow! Now this is different.

 

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Elephant activity galore ! The Zim
Bots border fence .... the Hunters Road Officially an illegal
immigrant for a few seconds

 

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Safari guides said the road was good with patches of sand ...(. turns out road is sandy with good patches) heading north ....

 

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So far so good .... we styling the 660 is purring along nicely ... Hwange National Park on the right side of the road ...

 

[Shaka]

This looks awesome

 

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Screwed up my gears intimidated by that sand ...and down we go ...Im breathing /blowing like a buffalo ...luckily the bike comes up relatively easily ...in full gear its hot ..

 

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Not sure what happended here ….bound to come off at some stage it’s a dead straight road
Hahaha…I think I still had 100km to go back to the tar road and it was 1.30pm …I gotta go faster …strange thing when you on your ace in the middle of “never never land” you naturally gun it ….keep moving keep moving .

There are bits of old border fence everywhere the elephants and buffalo have dragged it all over the place ….I ride over loads of it but eventually run out of luck …

Its tight like a piano string ……thank F ..for the cutters on a vice grip else I would still be there … takes approx. hour or so to remove …some of it is still in place around the hub took off my number plate and lights which later fell off ….a friend told me it took 5 hrs to get wire off his cruisers propshaft …so Im very lucky .

Steel plate has a number of uses on an adventure bike

Im still miles from anywhere …I need to get to the 19th parallel where it joins the border ( pink line on the inreach map ) then go east for 30km till it goes over the main tar road and I can then go the 100km back to Nata …Im told the 19 is a great road so Im eager to get to that junction …I have only 2 litres of water left lost 2 litres when the bike went down in the sand ( water bottle punctured inside the pannier )

 

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wonder if its to late to learn to
play golf ....

 

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Straight -Pandamatenga Left -19 Parallel look at that sand

 

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That sand looks ugly .. but its the only way out
give it a bash

 

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Warning light comes on bike is overheating ... let itcool
down drop the tyre pressure and we on our way ....