Recent content by nightrider

Time files and I can't believe we're off this weekend!  Visas are done, bikes serviced, gps loaded, 2 pairs of underpants packed and we're good to go.  We'll be keeping a blog on our website if anyone wants to follow our progress (https://www.thiswayupafrica.co.za), and will try and update it en...

That's great news about the visas, we're struggling to get one for my brother in New Zealand, thanks so much for the feedback! We were also hoping to get across the med, but with the ferry stopped it scuppered our plans.  We thought about going via sinai into israel but we've heard thats also...

Hey Fraban, I read your story! - we were in the same Jan edition of Drive out - I was the idiot that lost the KLR in the river having battled through the snow!  We will have a web site up real soon and will definitely blog.  Thanks for the offer for advice, will definitely take you up on that...

Thanks for the advice guys - it's all welcome!  We were wondering what to do about money, so that's some good news there about ATMs etc. Planning going well, have kitted out 2 of the 4 DR650s already (pic attached), doing another one this weekend and one more box of toys to arrive from the US...

hahaha, i reckon after a few weeks into this trip skaapkop will start to sound pretty tasty.

Hey all, just back from a trip up to gauteng, sheez, how do people survive up there without a bike in that traffic, hectic. Amsterdam, would love to hear about your trip esp the tanzania bits, I see you're cape based too, maybe once you're back I could tempt you to join us for a braai and a...

Hey Mzee, read your ride report today, thanks! Hectic, solo through africa on a wee-strom, respect man!  I've taken my trusty DL1000 on some hectic stuff around the karoo, and she never let me down, although she's given me quite a few scares! 

Hi all,   We're about to embark on a cape to cairo ride starting in April 2014.  It's a trip that's been in the pipeline for 3 years, and is suddenly only 6 months away - sheez.  There's four of us going, all on DR650s, average age 50+ (and the bikes aren't much younger!). We're planning on...

Hi all, not sure if this is the right forum for this, it's not really technical, but I was going through my old photos of when our 'strom gang started riding, and thought that only DL riders would really appreciate these pics.  Purely co-incidental, we all ended up on the same bikes, which we...

The return of the Tanqua-naught... Took her for her first land voyage since her swim - messing around in the forest above Kleinmond, followed by a braai for us and an oil change for her.  She seems to be running sweetly again, no noticeable problems, just has a little more character than...

The Tanqua-Naught rides again! Thanks to some Claus magic, she's up and running.  Claus removed buckets water, and a small koppie worth of stones and sand.  I also spent a happy afternoon stripping the clocks, switches, locks, lights etc and cleaning them all out.  She was a pretty ugly...

Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone - Really appreciated :) "Ice ice baby" - hahaha, love it!  I'm sure my boet will too, and that caption is no joke, it really was his birthday that day.  Good present eh? Ja briv, that would have been us in Williston, "gearing up" and grabbing a...

Over the past 5 years our little gang of five has done a number of rides (including Namibia and Zambia), and while they've all been memorable, none of them have really been adventurous enough (imo) to inspire a ride report.  This ride, however, which was meant to be a gentle run around the...