Xmas Xtreme

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Minxy

Race Dog
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Pretoria
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KTM 690 Adventure
Over Christmas time we had a few days off. My dad invited us to come and visit in Ellisras. We thought, cool, lets do that, we'll leave from our humble abode in Pretoria, via a detour to Tzaneen to go to Ellisras. I quickly plotted a route for us, choosing as many smaller off the beaten track paths as I could. I'd be riding my 701 and HSK decided to take the mighty 950SE.

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Airfilters were cleaned, bikes were made ready. I totally know what I'm doing :p

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Kiet helped us pack our bags. My Husky would be pulling the Xmas sled with all the presents for the family in my top bag.

Back to the route, we head out of Pretoria early on Saturday the 22nd of Dec. The roads are busy with holiday goers and we are just too glad to hit the first dirt roads out Pretoria East way. The first interesting piece of road is one of our old time favourites in the area, Loods Swaai, which is a sandy two track road with a lil water crossing near Rhenosterkopdam.

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I didn't take many other photos during this part of the trip, we had all kinds of different dirt roads, some sandy, some interesting, some not, heading towards Marble Hall where we'd stop for fuel. The town was BUSY, all the roads were full of travelers heading off to see their families for the festive season. We waited a while, got fuel. Thought about going to the Wimpy for some brunch (we hadn't eaten anything yet), but decided against it as there were just too many people about, didn't want to get our bags stolen off of our bikes... We decide we'll rather get something further up and head north into the vast trust lands in the Jane Furse area. We still had a long day ahead (wanting to do Orrie Baragwanath pass as well on our way up).
 
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