Zingela Bash 2023

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

I will start this Zingela Bash Ride Report, but please feel free to add comments and pics to your heart's content.

Just like the Bash, the more the merrier, no protocol and very informal.

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

Ten of us left Pmb for the bash at Zingela Lodge at around 09h00 on Friday morning.

Quite a diverse group consisting of bikes ranging from 300cc to 1200 cc

We rode the first part of the route together, but then split into two groups for the remainder when the smaller bikes branched off for some more technical riding

456 · Sep 4, 2023

The road to Colenso from Zingela, suited for scooters.

Grunder · Sep 4, 2023

456 said:
The road to Colenso from Zingela, suited for scooters.

YES!!!!

Met video footage! Nice.

Baie lekker om jou te ontmoet het!

dookie · Sep 4, 2023

Respek !!!!!

RobCrouch · Sep 4, 2023

456 said:
The road to Colenso from Zingela, suited for scooters.

Lekker... love the song as well.

Tommy Transalp · Sep 4, 2023

Bunch of reprobates!

.... I'm sorry I missed this one!...... how was the wind?

petri oosthuizen · Sep 4, 2023

Tommy Transalp said:
Bunch of reprobates! .... I'm sorry I missed this one!...... how was the wind?

Jo Tom.........dunno about the Others, but we had HECTIC wind all the way from Sterkfontein, RIGHT down to even the Bethlehem - Clarens road

Seriously the worst I've ever experienced.

Grunder · Sep 4, 2023

Tommy Transalp said:
Bunch of reprobates! .... I'm sorry I missed this one!...... how was the wind?

Bad!! All the way to Bloemfontein!!

Het deur die vure gery.
https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/fotos-duisende-ha-brand-weer-in-vrystaat/

Tommy Transalp · Sep 4, 2023

petri oosthuizen said:
Jo Tom.........dunno about the Others, but we had HECTIC wind all the way from Sterkfontein, RIGHT down to even the Bethlehem - Clarens road
Seriously the worst I've ever experienced.

Ja..... wind was gusting up to 47kph at the Berg Show..... a few gazebos became hangliders !

petri oosthuizen · Sep 4, 2023

Tommy Transalp said:
Ja..... wind was gusting up to 47kph at the Berg Show..... a few gazebos became hangliders !

Must say.......travelling on tar in that wind with an old XT 600, full tank, with brand new 606's and an open face helmet is VERY - uhum........Refreshing??

Tommy Transalp · Sep 4, 2023

petri oosthuizen said:
Must say.......travelling on tar in that wind with an old XT 600, full tank, with brand new 606's and an open face helmet is VERY - uhum........Refreshing??

Best blow-job you had for a long time?!

petri oosthuizen · Sep 4, 2023

Tommy Transalp said:
Best blow-job you had for a long time?!

FOK Tjom - tot my vingernaels het later so beginne lostrek van die vleis af van daai wind.

punisher · Sep 4, 2023

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

Some pics along the way

XTZ Charlie

ianb

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

Some more

Taking a breather from the heat

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

After a while we reached the dry river bed section

This area is fantastic to ride, can only be done in late winter before the rains start, so our timing was perfect

JonW · Sep 4, 2023

More in the river

XTZCharlie · Sep 4, 2023

I had spoken to @JonW earlier in the week, and had organized to meet along the route. I arrived a bit early as it turned out, and after riding along to the start of the proposed first track of the day, I headed back to the main road, and met the crowd riding back the other way.
We rode into the hills a km or two, hoping to cross through proudfoot estate, but as luck would have it. we came across a locked gate. A new plan was hatched and the bigger adventure bikes would split off and ride to Zingela via the middlerus road. Us folk on the smaller bikes would wind our way down the valley via a little old track at the end of the dirt road that goes past Craigie Burn.