Trail Aid
July 24, 2008
You’ve read my previous articles in EW and you know you’re having fun because your bike is well maintained, you’re carrying tools for your bike and your skill and ability is ever improving. But as mentioned once before s**t happens, so this piece will try and give you some tricks and tips for sorting out […]
Brand Wars
July 24, 2008
Isn’t it amazing how fanatically fixated dirt bikers get with the brand of bike they ride. I mean I love my KTM. You need to understand, I really love my KTM – it lives indoors. Not my garage, good heavens no, my entertainment room in my house. She’s my second KTM, a 2003 300 EXC, […]
Take Heed of the Guru
July 24, 2008
We’ve come some way. Your bike’s got a couple of battle scars by now, hopefully you haven’t as many. You have amassed all the necessary equipment and chosen your style of kitting up – it burns you though that you tossed the R599.99 MX jersey ‘cause riding in a t-shirt in sunny SA is just […]
Newbies’ Rules
April 10, 2008
So you and your buddies reckon off-road motorcycling is the way to go. And, I must tell you, you’re not wrong. So you go out and get yourself a machine and the necessary kit and accessories and you start riding. Lekker hey!!! After a couple of months you get bored with the local track and […]
Space Invaders
April 10, 2008
For every licensed off-road racer in South Africa, Motocross, Enduro, whatever the discipline, there must be a dozen social riders. By social riders, I mean guys that ride off road for the pure fun of it. Have a look around the popular venues on Saturdays and Sundays. How many families or groups of buddies are […]
