Th GSV Bush Pig goes solo North?

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Welsh

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Well I posted yesterday, anybody in?

I got one " I,m working" one " Bike broken" both reasons accepted.

Both will be pissed off reading this, if I know them????

So, I had decided to go West then North, yes that was as precise as the route was.

So this morning, I made tea, then coffee then decided, on my two colour photo copy pages of the Shell Motoring Atlas thing that I had made previously for one of the Botswana jaunts, is a place called "Rankin,s Pass" up in the Waterberg.

So filled the GSV up and left, nobody at the Sasol garage as I expected, so off I go, dont want to do any Duperbike routes so I head west towards Magalies past Maropeng, oh kak change route, the rain is in squalls you can miss it!
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So I took a different route, then thought solo running but cannot resist that sign, gonna go there!!!
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Then this sign, seen one like this before?
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Oh kak, oh great, Breedts by accident, remember navigation, one page of a Shell touring atlas???

The pass was as we remember it, some washout due to the rains,
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Then on to Northam, and onto the 510 Thabazimbi road, stopped for water, the pig didn,t need it I did, freindly truckers backies everybody, it was getting warm!!!

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one for the show us your sticker section?
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The scale of the curent and old mining is evident here, photo,s on my camera do not show it.
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As I leave Thabazimbi, I take a route I have never seen before, it skirts th bottom of the Naional Park and may exit near Nylstrom say 150km away? But the weather isn,t looking good, heavy storms in front.
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Worth a shot?
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The pics don,t do it justice, the squalls of rain were driving down those tiny valleys ferociouscly (vark the speeling) but 500m back I could wait till it passed.

You look ahead and you think " am I gonna get just how, not if, wet"
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Hey Funacide, Gideon, just how pissed off are you, poll please???? :twisted:

Busheld at its best

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And when I despaired, I saw the sign???
the Rankin,s pass was ahead!!!!!!
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Must be good falling rocks etc
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It was pictueresque dirt, steep on the sides, but Armco,d nothing really, but what the hell.
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I then ducked to Alma then Nylstroom and spent the next 60 odd km on corrugated dirt, I was being chased by storms and was happily avoiding them.
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Anyway, some 8 hours later, and over 600kms the GSV was home,
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Oh yes, the GPS shot.
:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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A good day for the big pig, I reckon today difficulty a 2, it may be more difficult with the sand in the dry, I was running solo, so very cautious, no more than 80 in the loose as no support and no traffic.

Welsh


Happy New Year Boys, wish you were there.

Welsh :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
 
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