Make the Journey Your Destination
There is a lot of crap written and sung about life on the road: travelling is fun only if journeys are undertaken from choice but, to be eternally on the move in order to justify one’s existence … that is something else. My friend Brian Finch knew this better than most. No
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Another hike in the fuel price due to another Carbon Tax – on inferior quality fuel. The Machiavellian logic behind this toxic tax would have been funny if it was not so tragic, reckons Paul van Gass. It is a script not even the writers of the controversial final episode of Games 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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The SUV Coupé trend is booming. Paul van Gass wonders what makes these graceless coupés so popular. It was premier brand BMW who took it mainstream first, quickly followed by Merc and most recently Porsche and Audi. Nowadays, it seems, every car builder South of the Arctic (most notably in China)
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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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I assume (by dint of this being a motoring-related publication) that most of you reading this are in possession of a driver’s licence and you acquired it by following the K53 process. If this is the case, then I am sure you can recall the rigmarole you were obliged to follow
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Shock and horror! Self-confessed futurist, concept car enthusiast, and lover of all things new develops fondness for utterly ordinary, 30-year-old cars. Unless badged 300SL, XK140, or something equally emotive and rare, a 30- year-old mass-market car in the 1980s would have been something like a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia.
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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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