Biker Stories & Memoirs
A summary
of write ups over the last few years of biking with my wife Trudie. Some may be in Afrikaans. If you do not understand
the language, just enjoy the pictures.
The 3 largest dams within the borders of the old Transvaal are Loskop dam, Hartbeespoort dam and Middle Letaba dam. We undertook an investigation in the water levels.
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800ST nearly
stolen, Mar 2009
One Sunday night Trudie’s ST was nearly stolen. And they tried again a week later
Our first long trip with the new
RT to take a picture at
A small unused train station in the middle of nowhere has been converted to a restaurant
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Memorable
Buildings, Jun 2009
We went looking at some old
buildings in
A +-2500 round trip to Stormsriver for the Zip Line tour over rivers
Similar to above but this time in the Tsitsikamma treetops
The Ladies take the lead over women’s day weekend. Men tag along
Similar to above but different route, venue and partakers
We went to buy some veggies and the event took a very different turn
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Soweto Breakfast
Run, Feb 2010
Stokkiesdraai means relaxing and idling about. We did just that, albeit in a different way
We Visited England and toured the country on a BMW1200RT for eight days
We toured Germany, Italy and Switzerland on a BMW1200RT for fifteen days during the last two weeks of July 2011
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Namibia
North & VanZyl’s Pass
More than 5300km in 16 days with 6 fellow bikers and back-up 4x4’s. This is a ride of a life-time. Another tick off the bucket list.