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The Journey Worth Taking
Life sometimes takes you on unexpected journeys. My life on motorcycles began with me holding on tightly to my dad’s leather jacket on the back of his Honda CB750. I rode my cousins’ motorcycles until age 16, when my mom finally relented and bought m
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EDITOR GO! MOTORCYCLE CYRIL KLOPPER cyril.klopper@media24.com EDITOR GO! PIERRE STEYN pierre.steyn@media24.com EDITOR GO! DRIVE & CAMP SCHALK JONKER schalk.jonker@media24.com JOURNALISTS ANGUS BOSWELL LEON BOTHA leon.botha@media24.com DESIGNERS DOMIN
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How To Pick A Tent
The easiest way to camp is to simply stretch out on a mattress under the stars, sans tent. The Northern Cape’s salt pans and the plains of Namibia and the Great Karoo are eminently suitable for this kind of dossing since the chances of unexpected rai
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If The Boot Fits
These shoes are comfortable to walk around in and offer a small degree of protection. A motorcycle shoe should at least protect your toes and ankles, because there is a good chance that your feet will get well acquainted with rocks and branches. Choo
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Pack Light, But Clever
Ask any motorcycle overlander and they’ll tell you weight is your biggest enemy. They’ll probably admit to leaving home with excess stuff that they’ve discarded along the way. Here are eight packing commandments: • Pack the minimum• Have everything s
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The Right Motorcycle For You
Adventure motorcycles are typically divided into three categories: lightweight (200-500 cc), middleweight (up to 900 cc) and heavyweight (1000 cc and over). These categories are not only determined by engine size but also physical weight. Take the li
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What’s So Good About It?
Because I once believed that it was possible to describe this intense, never ending elation using words, I usually began with the story of the elephant… Thanks to the Zimbabwean customs guy dragging his heels as he checked our luggage, it was already
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Load Up And Go!
A duffel, or a dry bag − the type you can buy from a river-rafting company − works great on a motorcycle trip. Take care not to pack heavy gear in here because you want the centre of mass to be down low at the bottom of the saddle bags instead. Rathe
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The Romance Of Cape Roads
If you’ve ever looked for an excuse to see the Cape on a motorcycle, we have just the route for you. Join us as we follow a tar road across some of the oldest and most beautiful passes in the country and encounter some remarkable characters – from a
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Painting A Road In The Sky
During the planning stage for our South American trip, the countries Peru, Chile and Colombia were always on our list to explore at length due to their breathtaking landscapes and fascinating cultures. Bolivia was only mentioned in passing, even when
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To The Lungs Of Africa
Ifind it hard to dissociate the name Angola from the 27-year civil war in which South Africa played a significant part. Most of my generation were called up “vir volk en vaderland” in the eighties, but for the majority of the current, young populatio
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Cooking On Two Wheels
Your mobile canteen should resemble the one hikers carry. Fortunately, you have extra packing space for items such as a braai grid and a chopping board. Here’s a typical kitchen for a motorcycle trip. Find the type of braai grid where the handle fold
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Bike-to-basics Cooking
Breakfast on the trail when not staying at a B&B often consists of coffee and a rusk or left overs if you are lucky. Make sure you have enough snacks to keep you going until lunch. Pack a few different brands to keep it interesting, but keep an eye o
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The Bully Beef Challenge
You may be wondering why we’re bothering with tinned food, especially when Johané spoilt us with such gastronomic delights (see previous page). Well, sometimes hunger allows no time to follow the culinary arts, and fresh ingredients aren’t always ava
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Big X
The so-called Baby Boomers – people aged between 60 and 75 years old today – grew up with the legendary Vincent Black Shadow and several Harleys, and when they got their licenses, the Kreidler 50, and later the Honda CB750 and Kawasaki Z1, were extre
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On An X Through Africa
In 1982, the now defunct Afrikaans magazine Motorfiets published an article about Eckhart Hollstein (30), a German guy from South West Africa – this was before Namibian independence – who undertook an overlanding trip through Africa. Eckhart started
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Inspirational Media
This adventure motorcycle forum with 25 000 members was founded in 2006. The Wild Dogs Forum is the largest of its kind in Africa and here South Africans and overlanders visiting Southern Africa talk about routes they’ve done, find out about routes t
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Chatting with Charley
After Long Way Round the two friends reunited for Long Way Down through Africa and most recently in Long Way Up set in South and North America You’re a nice guy – does an easy-going personality help at border posts? It’s very kind of you to say that.

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