Recent content by RobLH

I only opened this thread to see if other people were thinking what I was thinking …………

Are you not thinking about the Rallye only coming out in 2023?

Great write up, thanks. I’m slightly the wrong side of 100kg, how did the bike haul with your weight? You do mention staying 1 gear lower - is that the solution? Would you have been comfortable riding from CT to the Richtersveld on it?

Google all the restaurants you’d like to visit and plan around that 🤣

https://www.lekkeslaap.co.za/accommodation-in/alldays Couple of budget options around Alldays, can’t vouch for any of them though.

Yes, but now known as a Striated Heron.

The RR Sport version?

Thumbs up for Shoestrings, Bayete if you want something more upmarket.

Panda is dirt for about 80kms, Kasane to VF tar

Honest question, what is your route into Cairo? Northern Ethiopia and Sudan are pretty much no go areas due to civil wars, so that is your traditional route out the window.

Lekker report, thanks

Spent my first night in PE in ages last night at a B&B in the Summerstrand area, and I’ve got to say I’m impressed. No idea if it’s upmarket, or because it clearly is a tourism spot but it clean and well kept. Went for a run this morning and barely saw any litter, fuckall potholes, kept...

Update please (out of curiosity).

I rode back from the West coast to Durban in June last year. It’s a minimum of four long days if you’re trying to stick to dirt. Calvinia to Nieu-Bethesda N-B to Rhodes Rhodes to Durban Was our route back, thus one more day to get to the coast. It was also two of us, no need to book. Just...

Thanks Jon, great report as always. What was the issue with the CRF?