Dirt Bike Africa (ride wild africa)

Dirty Dozen tour -2

2013-08-22T15:01:00.006+02:00

Day one The riders for this trip were (in no particular order) Angus,CRF250, Antony, XR650L, Phillip (senior) CRF 230, Phillip (Junior) DRZ 400, Peter,XR250, Marcus GS800, Eckehard GS650, Grant DRZ400, Gino KTM 690, George GS800, Tony XT660 Z The day started off fine a sunny, (oops wrong ride report) The day started of wet miserable and cold , Angus who was the organiser of this

Easy Rider Tour 2013

2013-08-06T12:46:00.003+02:00

The Easy Rider Tour 2013 Harry, Grant & myself have just got back from our motorcycle tour of our beautiful country. We left Langebaan on the 24th June travelling via Ceres in the rain and temps of 5 degrees Celsius - not too cold as we dressed well. We headed in the direction of Touwsriver but ran the Montague road down the Keisie Pass. Here the sun came out which was an absolute

5 grumpy old men and one Pisha take on the Old Postal Route .

2013-05-15T12:17:00.002+02:00

Pisha is a very dialectal word similar to "guy/brother/friend/dude..or small child." Riders: Antony, Tony, Harold, Grant, Andy and Greg The day dawned bright and early on Friday the 10 of May, Not a Cloud in the sky and the birds singing, (oops sorry wrong report), let’s start over. Day 1 We all met up at Antony’s circle except for Andy who lives at Langebaan Weg so we collected him on

we are off today

2013-05-10T07:12:00.001+02:00

Well the day has come, we will be leaving langebaan at 9 am today destination Ceres, the long way round, we have a full complement of riders to day bar any unforeseen circumstances like mumps, measles, the dog had kittens wives that are grumpy (a definite excuse to go) etc.etc, watch this space for a running update of the ride and to knight I will edit any posts that don’t make sense, My bike

Baviaans trip not on until August

2013-04-19T16:28:00.002+02:00

Just a quick note to let all our followers know, we are not going to the baviaanskloof Until August, we had some complications with something and we have had to postpone the trip, however we will be doing a round trip from langebaan to Ceres then on to Sutherland, to the Cedarburg oasis and back to langebaan, watch this space for more details on this trip. The negotiator

We went for a training ride

2013-04-01T08:58:00.000+02:00

The boys went for a ride to Piketburg for lunch. We all met up outside Antony’s house at 8:15, Harold Arrived on the Vuka this could only mean 3 things ...1. His bike would not start because of lack of use, ...2. He had a hangover and would not be capable of riding, ...or 3. the dreaded flu that had been doing the rounds had kicked in, it turned out to be the latter and harry had just

The Baviaans kloof Tour Riders

2013-03-11T17:12:00.003+02:00

So the planning is under way. Riders for this trip will be. Antony (to get out of his wife’s hair),XR650L Harold (hopefully he won’t be grumpy), DL1000 Greg (if his wife does not have other plans for him).GS800 Grant (because he is still grumpy from the last trip), DRZ400 Andy (he just like to have fun). DRZ400 Tony (if he is not playing golf), DRZ400 Jerry (we need him for our

The Baviaans kloof Tour

2013-02-19T19:44:00.001+02:00

the planing has begun, the navigator is down loading his maps, the negotiator is booking the accommodation, We are off to the baviaanskloof for a bit of R & R. The trip will take us from Langebaan to Sutherland for day 1,then on to Price Albert for day 2, then on to the Wilderness vie the swartburgh pass for day 3, then into the baviaans for days 4 and 5 , back to the wilderness for day 6,

THREE GRUMPY OLD MEN GO FOR A RIDE.

2012-11-28T10:31:00.000+02:00

Sorry no Photos ,old timers kicked in and forgot the camera. So it was decided that on Tuesday the 27 November that we would go for a ride. Reasons for the ride. 1 Ant had to get out of his staffs hair (he tells us it was to test his new second-hand transalp) Honda Transalp 2Harry to have something to do as watching judge Judy all day id getting boring.( Suzuki Dl1000 V-Strom) 3

Day 5 and Day 6

2012-07-16T15:21:00.000+02:00

Day 5 was a quick breakfast and we were on the road by about half past eight. After a quick stop at the Hand of God, the gravel road soon became a decent track with rocky climbs, decents, sandy river stretches and great views. It all kind of blurs into a fantastic days riding. We followed the Akkadis Pass and Helskloof route, even if we were very tempted to head right down to the river. It was

Day 4

2012-07-14T18:11:00.000+02:00

Day 4 It was a peaceful night at Spogplaas for some. Unfortunately for Jaco he shared a room with Andy and at 05H30 Andy’s alarm went off because he had been to dof to realize that he was on leave for the week. By the time he had silenced it Jaco was threatening him with grievous bodily harm for disturbing his dreams and Andy was lucky to escape alive. Because it was a short 90kays to

2012-06-17T21:30:00.000+02:00

This trip could be called many things: “Langebaan Toppies” but some newcomers have dropped the average age to about 50 (and raised the IQ to 50 as well) , “Sand ain’t bad” but some will tell you that it was not at all pleasant, or “The Trip of Attrition” because 7 bikes started out but only 2 made the full planned distance. But whatever it gets called it was FUN. Ant on an XL650 is the main

sendlingsdriff tour

2012-04-29T17:47:00.000+02:00

Well the next trip is planed,the navigators have had instruction on the use of their GPS as we will be doing almost 2500 km in days, the riders: Antony,Andy,Harold,Ken,Grant,Jaco,Tyse,Greg The back up Landrover: Jeremy and Tony We leave on Friday the 11 May and head out for Vredendale then out to Honderklip baai for Night 2, on to Alexanderbay for night 3, Sedlings driff on the Namibian

Buffalo tour 2012 The ride

2012-03-19T18:18:00.000+02:00

M Day 1 Well we left early on Thursday morning from the navigator’s house heading down to Langebaanweg were we met up with Andy, (who was late because he could not find his bike keys). Andy arrived at about 8:35 for us only to find that he had a flat back tyre. This was repaired by Thys and Harold and we headed out for Ceres our lunch stop at about 10:00 We had an uneventful trip

The buffalo rally

2012-02-15T15:55:00.001+02:00

The boys are back and we are off to the Buffalo Rally in Mosselbay. The adventurers this time are Ant the (navigator) Grant (negotiator) Harold (sweeper) Greg (with permission, with out permission permission revoked) sorry Greg no spooning with Jaco or Ant Jaco (abusdriver) Andy (nasher) We will be leaving on the 15th of March very early,

Swartburg to Sea day 3

2011-10-06T11:08:00.001+02:00

After a snack of cold Pizza purchased the night before we headers up the swartburg pass on our way to Calitz-Dorp, we headed in to thick mist so did not see much of the scenery most of the way up the pass, but was we did see was awesome and the road was a great ride, after going over the pass we headed down a tar road towards Calitz-Dorp and then turned on to a dirt road and headed for

Swartburg to Sea day 2

2011-10-06T11:03:00.002+02:00

Everyone was up and early for our trip to Sutherland , after a great breky at the Mddilposs hotel we headed for the petrol pumps ,only to find the power was off and we could not get any fuel so we made the decision and headed now the road to Sutherland,On arrival at Sutherland we found that Ken had had a puncture and my DRZ had developed a softening of the rear suspension (no comments here please

Swartburg to Sea Day 1

2011-10-06T10:54:00.001+02:00

As normal the comment started at the point of Go, I the negotiator was blamed for being late even after the navigator said depart time was 08:30 I got to the departure point at 08:15 to much commenting from the other 3 gentlemen( and I use this term very lightly),We set of and met up with Ken ( Not the navigator ) at Langebaan weg and headed towards Clanwillam , over the captains kloof pass

Berg to Beach run

2011-09-16T09:13:00.001+02:00

Well the boy are out of here on the 3oSeptember for a short ride currently know as the Swartberg to Sea run, however as the navigator who is already confused, it should be the beach to beach run, the ride will be a 3 day event and not a 6 day event as previously planned, some of us have work commitments.We will be going from Langebaan to Clanwillam , then on to Middelposs for

Saturday the 18 June

2011-06-18T18:31:00.000+02:00

Ant , Harry and Grant headed for the hill again today, we left Langebaan at about 9:30 and headed out past Langebaan weg past the sheep paddocks past the silos and out onto the back roads , the evidence of the weeks rain was every ware and we spent some time back tracking because of flooded low level bridges , there was a lot of mud around and Harry`s beast got bagged down on

Bike ride to Readlinghuis

2011-06-04T19:26:00.001+02:00

Ant , Harry And myself (Grant) went out to Readlinghuis today via Aurora, this was my first time out on my new .secondhand DRZ , the small things that I have forgotten since I last road a bike at 19, slowly started to come back, Big thanks to Harry and Ant for all the patience and assistance in setting up the DRZ from a road machine of the previous owners to my off road ,adventure bike

2011-05-28T12:42:00.001+02:00

This should have a link to pictures. Grants pics

Places we stayed at and our ratings

2011-05-13T20:40:00.000+02:00

SkulpiesKraal Honderklip baai Run By Rob and Dawn Meintjes Accommodation good food very expensive. You can self catering Tel: 027 692 3966 Our ratings 3 stars

Loeriesfontain to Langebaan.

2011-05-13T20:31:00.000+02:00

Well after a hearty breakfast we headed off along the tar road to Nieuwoudtville and this run was very cold for those on the bikes the air temp had dropped significantly the night before as was evident by the frost on the bikesAt Nieuwoudtville we refuelled the bikes and the team found a workshop full of vintage bikes, from here the bikes headed Clanwillam vie the back roads and the Landy team

Pella Date farm to Loeriesfontain.

2011-05-13T20:23:00.002+02:00

After much discussion and lots of running around in circles we eventually found the road out of the date farm to Pella, the road was known as Oom Charlie’s se pat and was more like a goat track through the mountains with exceptional scenery and very tricky roads for the Landy.This road is a must see. After a vey fleeting visit to Pele and the towns wane be bugermeester who wanted 18 R for