2018 - Big Red Pigs in Kenya

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Osadabwa

Race Dog
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Location
Nairobi, Kenya
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Honda XR650R
Happy New Year, Bikers!  :snorting:

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It’s a New Year, and in Kenya the Pigs are on the move! Over lunch, Panic and were talking about biking, as is our wont, and how it would be good to get in a nice 4-day trip sometime in the next couple of weeks. But before that, we decided we’d better go down into the ol’ Rift Valley to check out the goings on.

The Chinese railway is making a lot of new roads in what used to be wide expanses of bush. It’s ugly, but some of the roads are kind of fun to ride, so we decided to go explore. We found a serious construction site in progress, and for whatever reason, were allowed by the local askari to ride right through the middle of it. It must be the bikes. Anyway, it’s all pretty impressive and sad, knowing how horribly expensive it is and how little chance there is (think, snowball in hell) that it’ll ever pay for itself let alone turn a profit. Say it with me folks: corruption kills.

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Above: Atop one of the SGR tunnels looking back up the valley that just a year ago was only bush
Anyway, we ogled the railway and then hit the pipeline down to Ewaso Kedong for our customary tea and mandazi. It was fun picking our way over the babyheads, and there had been rain so there were some interesting puddles to be negotiated as well.

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Above: Heading over to Ewaso Kedong for a spot of tea… not taking the direct route

After tea, we decided to keep the challenges coming, and aimed for babyhead hill, a rather tricky bit of track that is good training in case we end up going to the far North in the coming year. The rocks I encountered in Logipi are similar, and practicing riding them is what I had in mind (in case I get back up there). We slid around on the main track awhile in new mud, blasted like maniacs on the dry road, and pulled off down toward babyhead hill when I looked to the right and said to myself: Hey, that looks like a road.

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Above: Leaving Ewaso was muddy… pretty rare lately

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Above: Those are the tracks of a guy (me) who nearly saw his ass

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Above: Panic ripping up a drier section of road

To be continued...
 
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