Kortbroek
Race Dog
So two weeks ago I'm at home on a Sunday, working. Around 12h ish I realised I'm getting cabin fever, I need to get out of the house so I hop on the bike with no real plan in mind, maybe just dawdle around for an hour or two, see the sights.
So Just after 13h00 I cruise down the coast to Maitlands beach, weather was stunning and it felt lekker to just get on the bike and ride with no real destination in mind.
From there I decide to cruise up the Elandrivier valley seeing as it's just around the corner and the closest decent dirt and that is where the fun started. Next thing I know and a few stops later I found myself on top the pass looking out over Patensie.
I was having a great ride and on the spot decided I should go check out what this Antoniesberg Pass and Grootrivierpoort is like seeing as I'm close by. The plan was to just ride in for an hour or so and then start making my way back via either Elandrivier or Patensie. It was after 15h00 when I turned off onto the 2 spoor.
Now I've been told a few times that doing the loop via Antoniesberg and Grootrivierpoort is a lekker day ride so I was under the impression I'll be turning back at some point. And then I just never stopped and next thing I found myself at the drift at the bottom of the pass. A quick squiz at the gps and I realised it was now an almost equal distance turning around for home or looping around the north and back via Uitenhage.
So from there I headed out west and followed the gravel around back toward Uitenhage and P.E. Towards the end as the sun started setting I suddenly felt the bike hiccup. Looking at the distance I've done on my gps I was a little surprised as I should still at least have like 50-60km of range left. But I flipped it over to reserve and all was well, for a few min. A few km later the bike spluttered and died. f*ck. I was still 30km from Uitenhage, the sun had set and I'm out of fuel.....wait a minute, there's still fuel in the tank you retard. Managed to get going again and with an intermittent fuel starvation issue I made it to Uitenhage. After refueling the bike ran great again, I suspect the extra pressure from the tank helped as it turns out one of the float posts in the carb had broken so the float was sticking.
At the end of the day, what was going to be a short dawdle near home turned out to be a super fun ride in places I haven't been to :ricky:
I've made a short video edit, although my editing skills aren't great :biggrin:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8RE44CRN8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
So Just after 13h00 I cruise down the coast to Maitlands beach, weather was stunning and it felt lekker to just get on the bike and ride with no real destination in mind.
From there I decide to cruise up the Elandrivier valley seeing as it's just around the corner and the closest decent dirt and that is where the fun started. Next thing I know and a few stops later I found myself on top the pass looking out over Patensie.
I was having a great ride and on the spot decided I should go check out what this Antoniesberg Pass and Grootrivierpoort is like seeing as I'm close by. The plan was to just ride in for an hour or so and then start making my way back via either Elandrivier or Patensie. It was after 15h00 when I turned off onto the 2 spoor.
Now I've been told a few times that doing the loop via Antoniesberg and Grootrivierpoort is a lekker day ride so I was under the impression I'll be turning back at some point. And then I just never stopped and next thing I found myself at the drift at the bottom of the pass. A quick squiz at the gps and I realised it was now an almost equal distance turning around for home or looping around the north and back via Uitenhage.
So from there I headed out west and followed the gravel around back toward Uitenhage and P.E. Towards the end as the sun started setting I suddenly felt the bike hiccup. Looking at the distance I've done on my gps I was a little surprised as I should still at least have like 50-60km of range left. But I flipped it over to reserve and all was well, for a few min. A few km later the bike spluttered and died. f*ck. I was still 30km from Uitenhage, the sun had set and I'm out of fuel.....wait a minute, there's still fuel in the tank you retard. Managed to get going again and with an intermittent fuel starvation issue I made it to Uitenhage. After refueling the bike ran great again, I suspect the extra pressure from the tank helped as it turns out one of the float posts in the carb had broken so the float was sticking.
At the end of the day, what was going to be a short dawdle near home turned out to be a super fun ride in places I haven't been to :ricky:
I've made a short video edit, although my editing skills aren't great :biggrin:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8RE44CRN8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
