This ride was planned to show my old colleague (f)Lex and a few of his riding friends some of my favourite places in the Valley of 1000 hills.
Unfortunately Lex needed to rush off to Malawi with little notice, one of his mates came down with ‘flu, and then another had to drop out for personal reasons, but no problem, we did the ride anyway, and with a few new Dogs for company it was a most enjoyable ride.
Five bikes in total, and I forgot to ask who is who on the forum, but the bikes were three Xt660z’s (me, MadDog and Dirk) an F800 with Tinusvdb and a DR650 with Hennie.
It was a pretty standard valley route. Into the Valley down the “jeep track” along the river, past the Inanda Dam wall, up past the Shembe village onto Mtabatula. From there to the top of Nanda Mountain via the Mzinyati Falls, and up the Valley and via a nice twisty back way up to Msilili falls just North of Nagle.
A couple of pics, but I am looking forward to some from MadDog and Dirk’s helmet cams.
Great ride and great company. Thanks guys !!
MadDog on the edge.
Me swallowing a waterfall.
Tinusvdb at the top of the “upper” Msilili falls.
Hennie
Maddog on top of the upper Msilili falls – about 60m upstream from the main falls.
Tinus took these shots – brave man to crawl to the edge and stick his head out. My head was doing flick-flacks from vertigo.
Unfortunately Lex needed to rush off to Malawi with little notice, one of his mates came down with ‘flu, and then another had to drop out for personal reasons, but no problem, we did the ride anyway, and with a few new Dogs for company it was a most enjoyable ride.
Five bikes in total, and I forgot to ask who is who on the forum, but the bikes were three Xt660z’s (me, MadDog and Dirk) an F800 with Tinusvdb and a DR650 with Hennie.
It was a pretty standard valley route. Into the Valley down the “jeep track” along the river, past the Inanda Dam wall, up past the Shembe village onto Mtabatula. From there to the top of Nanda Mountain via the Mzinyati Falls, and up the Valley and via a nice twisty back way up to Msilili falls just North of Nagle.
A couple of pics, but I am looking forward to some from MadDog and Dirk’s helmet cams.
Great ride and great company. Thanks guys !!
MadDog on the edge.
Me swallowing a waterfall.
Tinusvdb at the top of the “upper” Msilili falls.
Hennie
Maddog on top of the upper Msilili falls – about 60m upstream from the main falls.
Tinus took these shots – brave man to crawl to the edge and stick his head out. My head was doing flick-flacks from vertigo.
