Make the Journey Your Destination
Tim Carr took something no-one wanted and turned it into his dream. Jim Freeman took on the Seven Passes on the Garden Route with a BMW F900XR to visit him and his piece of Eden … “This place was abandoned and overgrown. You could not drive a vehicle onto the property but
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The Oceania 2020 edition of the International GS Trophy was one of the closest in the seven year history of the event but Team South Africa did us proud by recording their third consecutive GS Trophy win – making the country by far the most successful in the competition with their ‘threepeat’ performance. After eight
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What better way to explore the ghosts and the colonial past of the Victorian village of Matjiesfontein than on a traditionally styled Harley-Davidson, asks Jim Freeman. People who disparage Harley-Davidson motorcycles generally have one thing in common – they have either never ridden one or it is been a heck of
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The famed Suzuki GSX1300R bird of prey is scheduled to cease production this year, two decades after its initial arrival. Jim Freeman got astride the final model and put it through its paces in the Overberg. You can be any kind of biker you like – adventure, trail, tourer, superbike-dragster, city
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A formidable KTM adventure Adventure riders have been waiting for a highly capable, light adventure bike since the KTM 640 Adventure was discontinued over a decade ago. Justus Visagie sampled the new KTM 790 Adventure R in Lesotho to find out if it is a worthy successor to the revered 640 … It was
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The problem with the wonderful Western Cape wine estates, according to Jim Freeman (as he sat astride a Suzuki SV650), is that the best of them are situated along the finest motorcycling roads the province has to offer … “Are you not scared of falling?” is one of the questions I am often
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In the same way Fiat revived its classic Cinquecento as the contemporary 500 and reincarnated the 124 Sport Spider, Ducati went back to the 1960s and brought back its plucky little Scrambler. Justus Visagie took the new 1100 cc version on a two-day Cape Peninsula tour. With the retro and custom bike scene
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Some Roman guy said it a long, long time ago, and Jim Freeman believes it (again) after he (again) crossed the Tankwa Karoo on the latest version of the iconic Honda Africa Twin Adventure bike, the CRF1000L. Somewhere, like a trillion years ago, when my voice was breaking and I started
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Following (responsibly) in the wheel ruts of Clarkson, May, and Hammond, Jim Freeman takes on the vast Makgadikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana with a Yamaha Grizzly 350 4WD ATV. Back in 2007, the BBC’s Top Gear crew took on the wilds and expanses of the Northern neighbour of South Africa in three
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The recently introduced BMW K1600GTL is a luxury cruiser for the well-to-do rider with a sense of fun. Jim Freeman put the hefty machine through its paces on some of the most beautiful roads in the Western Cape … and found it quite intimidating. It is not often you will hear me admit
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