Slick
Pack Dog
We left Nelspruit on Friday afternoon and traveled via forestry roads to Barberton – wet, misty and crappy riding conditions.
Saturday morning conditions were unchanged until we hit the lowveld in Swaziland from where we had good riding into Mocambique and on to Maputo. After lunch we decided to head north as we were real eager for the adventure to begin. One of our party went down on the first piece of sand and we all turned back and into Maputo again for the night.
We then headed out again on Sunday and the game was on! Sand against bikes. Over the next few days we had brilliant riding; sand tracks (GPS navigated) were the order of the day until the guys were overwhelmed by fatigue and heat.
We finally had a rest day in Viloncoulos where we visited the islands.
Then for me it was solo back to Gauteng.
The locals were superb as was the food and beer.
We rode just under 4000 km over 7days – the last 500 km on my 640 was with only 5 teeth left on the rear sprocket - The sand spat the rest out.
Rob from the UK, down the west coast of Africa and now on the way up the east on a 125
Saturday morning conditions were unchanged until we hit the lowveld in Swaziland from where we had good riding into Mocambique and on to Maputo. After lunch we decided to head north as we were real eager for the adventure to begin. One of our party went down on the first piece of sand and we all turned back and into Maputo again for the night.
We then headed out again on Sunday and the game was on! Sand against bikes. Over the next few days we had brilliant riding; sand tracks (GPS navigated) were the order of the day until the guys were overwhelmed by fatigue and heat.
We finally had a rest day in Viloncoulos where we visited the islands.
Then for me it was solo back to Gauteng.
The locals were superb as was the food and beer.
We rode just under 4000 km over 7days – the last 500 km on my 640 was with only 5 teeth left on the rear sprocket - The sand spat the rest out.
Rob from the UK, down the west coast of Africa and now on the way up the east on a 125
