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A bit of thinking resulted in a plan to attend the AMID show and do some work with Alfie for the DS festival.
So Alfie, John (of Gear-up fame), Shaun (AC racing) and I left early in the morning on Friday, to go see what's at the show. Our pilot is a well known rally driver, so the trip was as fast as traffic allowed..... :shock:
Had a look around there, lots of good stuff to see, but nothing really earth shattering. The new KTM plastic bikes were nice and of course the 690 rally. Also bumped into some other well known folk.
We did some promo for the DS festival and left a couple of posters with some of the important people. Bruce was in Jhb and we met him at the show - thanks for the help Mr Bruce!
Some of the pics I took there are here: https://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236594&postcount=1
We left again late afternoon and headed back towards Mooirivier, where we slept over at Sierra Ranch. The ladies and kids joined us early on Saturday morning, they towed our bikes to the venue. We teamed up there with some local farmers, and they showed us around their Kingdom. What a great area for all types of DS riding - anything from smooth gravel roads to real WFO stuff. For the DS festival, we are trying to keep the routes very easy but pleasant and pillion friendly to ride, and then also offer a bit of a challenge (rated in "Chillies") en route (optional to ride these) for those who want to test the "system" a bit. But no bike breaking stuff!
Any DS bike is welcome!
Smooth gravel
Bit more technical
We also visited Imbabala lodge where we teamed up with Alan (owner) and Roger Scheffer (KZN BMW Offroad Instructor), resulting in some more great riding opportunity. All I can say is that some of the very best riding for our bikes is being stringed together, covering the very best the Midlands can offer. Will be a memorable event. We also did some filming with the 2 Wheels camera man. Dave Petersen has kindly offered to do a bit of promo for the event on 2 Wheels. We have a great team working on the event - and the support from all over is amazing.
The kids had a great time playing at Sierra Ranch too. Here's my boy and Brad Cox after some playing at the MX track.
And our route marking equipment worked very well too - super fun riding weekend! Thanks to Alfie, John, Bruce and all the families for a MOOI weekend.
Pity we had to load the bikes, but we were too softie to ride them to the AMID and back to Mooirivier on Friday.....
Book your place - space is running out. 8) :wink:
So Alfie, John (of Gear-up fame), Shaun (AC racing) and I left early in the morning on Friday, to go see what's at the show. Our pilot is a well known rally driver, so the trip was as fast as traffic allowed..... :shock:
Had a look around there, lots of good stuff to see, but nothing really earth shattering. The new KTM plastic bikes were nice and of course the 690 rally. Also bumped into some other well known folk.
We did some promo for the DS festival and left a couple of posters with some of the important people. Bruce was in Jhb and we met him at the show - thanks for the help Mr Bruce!
Some of the pics I took there are here: https://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236594&postcount=1
We left again late afternoon and headed back towards Mooirivier, where we slept over at Sierra Ranch. The ladies and kids joined us early on Saturday morning, they towed our bikes to the venue. We teamed up there with some local farmers, and they showed us around their Kingdom. What a great area for all types of DS riding - anything from smooth gravel roads to real WFO stuff. For the DS festival, we are trying to keep the routes very easy but pleasant and pillion friendly to ride, and then also offer a bit of a challenge (rated in "Chillies") en route (optional to ride these) for those who want to test the "system" a bit. But no bike breaking stuff!
Any DS bike is welcome!
Smooth gravel
Bit more technical
We also visited Imbabala lodge where we teamed up with Alan (owner) and Roger Scheffer (KZN BMW Offroad Instructor), resulting in some more great riding opportunity. All I can say is that some of the very best riding for our bikes is being stringed together, covering the very best the Midlands can offer. Will be a memorable event. We also did some filming with the 2 Wheels camera man. Dave Petersen has kindly offered to do a bit of promo for the event on 2 Wheels. We have a great team working on the event - and the support from all over is amazing.
The kids had a great time playing at Sierra Ranch too. Here's my boy and Brad Cox after some playing at the MX track.
And our route marking equipment worked very well too - super fun riding weekend! Thanks to Alfie, John, Bruce and all the families for a MOOI weekend.
Pity we had to load the bikes, but we were too softie to ride them to the AMID and back to Mooirivier on Friday.....
Book your place - space is running out. 8) :wink:
