Slim Jim time out time

[slimjim]

Hey s
DAY 1
After a snow delay on the 22nd I met up with Riece and Kiyana I'm Mooi river and we headed out for our long awaited time out.
We followed the snow and back roads through winterton and up to van reenen via the train tunnels. It was super slippy and cold. From there we took to dirt to sterkfontain dam and headed for Clarence. We enquired at Golden gate for camping and at R600 not going to happen so we spoiled ourselves with a challet at the back packers R280pp. Warm bed and hot shower . Long an awsome ride . 10HRS on the road .

Ps , there was no plan or booking on this trip , work it out on the road

 

[slimjim]

DAY 2
After a good night's sleep and a braai for supper (steak and bread rolls) we packed up and got ready to leave . We worked out our fuel consumption and it was standing at 26kmpl. Pretty good . We hit the road to head for Colesberg. We had a quick stop at the cherri farm were we got some meat marinade and had a chat with the manager. He recons this year's music for the cherri festival is a bar!
On route to Ladybrand the GS started to splutter and the rev counter was doing some strange stuff at the fuel stop in Ladybrand we went through the wiring and as we touched the kick stand switch it fell apart. So with some prattley steel and some cable ties that got fixed and we were on our way again.
We took the road to Hobhouse , ffffff potholes deluxe!! There the Gs chain came off , lucky it was slow going . Fixed that and set off. There we stopped for a toilet stop for Kiyana , R2 for the loo with no paper and no seat ! Ah well..... pressed on .
From there we hit the dirt to smithfield, wow an awsome sandy road . 120kmh all the way! Anything slower and the bike is all over the place . There a van hit a cape cobra that I swerved for and we turned back ( as thick as my arm !!! ) poor bugger didn't make it!
We took the long way round to River destiny were was home for the night and met a guy on a Gs 1200 from the Netherlands on his way to cape Town to ship his bike back , he had come from Namibia, Botswana and was finishing off south africa . Cool guy.
R720 for mutton chops , wood , rolls and camping for all of us. Nice ! Awsome hot shower and very clean .
I must say at 2 o'clock in the morning that place gets Fff cold !
All spirits were up and ready for day 3

 

[slimjim]

DAY 3
After a cold start and breakfast and 2 cups of Jacob's it was time to hit the road , the aim was Rhodes....The start of the morning were dog straight roads........... every now the and then the road builder fell asleep and we had a corner !
We got to Venterstad to fill up, that's not a one horse town , even the donkey has has pissed off from that place .
Next stop was Burgersdorp , buitifull place , Aliwail north and onto Lady grey to fill up. By then we were gatfoll of straight Tarr roads and hit Jobers pass.... Stunning!
On the other side of the pass the Gs had a oops . Riece and Kiyana ended up under the bike in the mud and got stuck. With abit of heavy breathing we got the bike up and Kiyana had hurt here knee quite bad . We got here on the bike and pressed on . I thought the trip was over!
I stopped the about 5 km in and gave her 3 super dupper pain killers and we carried on. On the way to Barkley east there were massive runaway fires and rock fall stop and goes but we got there around 3.30 eventually and decided to press on as Kiyana was as high as a kite and the world was .
At the OK we met a couple that told us the mountain passes at Rhodes were impassable and said he came from there and took his bike places he never knew possible ( one fully loaded clean Gs 1200 mmmmmmmmm) F it let's go........
We got to Rhodes about 5.30 TIERD ! the road had been graded so it was bloody loose!
We set up at walk abouts and there was only a tap with water. All good ,that night we had Briyani for supper and bread rolls, drugged chicki up and slept dead . We paid R80 a person to camp . We didn't care there was no facilities we were just so tired. 11 hrs on the road.