The Longish Way Round South Africa BMW F800GS

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3 жыл бұрын

At the end of 2020 I embarked on a solo adventure ride around the country.
I had about three weeks with a few specific destinations to get to and the goal of doing as much dirt riding along the way.
The route took me from my home in Cape Town up to Sabie, Mpumalanga. From there down to Durban, then on the Port Elizabeth, and then home. About 6000 km over 12 days of riding.
What did I do it on?
- 2017 BMW F800GS with a bash plate and taller screen
- Mitas E07+ tyres
- A tank bag on the front and a dry bag at the back
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Пікірлер: 22

@Thehammm_ 17 күн бұрын

Nice trip, Great bike!

@deanwalker2682 20 күн бұрын

G'day from Australia, I'm looking at getting a F800GS and your video has convinced me. I'm super excited to do some trips on it.

@lekkarides 6 ай бұрын

Now that was a Lekka trip Rowan 🙂 . Thanks for the effort to put it all together for us 👍🏻🇿🇦

@darguru6774 Жыл бұрын

What an amazing video. You rode some awesome dirt roads. Hope to be able to do such a ride one day on a f800gs.

@user-tu1zp8dj2u 7 ай бұрын

Hey great footage well done through the wet,have just bought a gs800 wascimpressed how it went.You must come and ride in our country New Zealand,thanks for posting.

@mylifebehindbars 3 ай бұрын

Epic adventure!

@DeekerG4 8 ай бұрын

Great road on the way to Prince Albert. Beautiful views. The entire trip was nice to see. Thanks for sharing a great tour of SA.

@rowanpage1452 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the nice comment! It was really a great trip and a wonderful part of the country.

@stiaanpistorius2373 3 ай бұрын

Hi. Did you book any bnb's ahead of time? Love the content. Also want to know how you did your planing on maps for africa? If it is possible.

@rowanpage1452 3 ай бұрын

Hi! Thanks appreciate the feedback! I actually booked all my accommodation well ahead of time. I know this isn’t a popular approach and many people say it’s a terrible idea, but I had some fixed commitments with family and needed to be in specific places at certain times. And even with some mechanical issues it worked out ok. I had a paper tracks for Africa map and a used a spreadsheet where I noted the towns I would pass through and the roads I would travel, as well as the distances and estimated travel times.

@stonerq7 10 ай бұрын

Hey man im looking to buy a 800gs and found your video. Looks like an amazing trip and a great video. Keep it up and thanks. Any flat tyres?

@rowanpage1452 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Luckily no flats even with lots of rocks. I did always keep the tyres quite firmly inflated, around 2bar.

@ORYXGREEN 4 ай бұрын

I'm looking to do these routes soon on my F800GS. Looks to be so much fun. Send us your gps tracks so we can copy your experience!

@rowanpage1452 3 ай бұрын

I didn’t have GPX tracks I used a tracks4africa paper map. I used the GPS where there were no road signs mostly.

@grahamludwig9131 Жыл бұрын

Great trip!!, interesting overnight stay in the container, where was that?

@rowanpage1452 Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was on a farm just off the R356 about halfway between between Fraserburg and Loxton. Listing still seems to be on AirBnb.

@emmanuelomondi8374 6 ай бұрын

Amazing adventure, how often did you fuel?

@rowanpage1452 6 ай бұрын

I could usually get 300km comfortably on a tank so there weren’t too many places I had to really worry. I’d say on average twice a day.

@darguru6774 Жыл бұрын

Were those lions???!!!

@rowanpage1452 Жыл бұрын

No…

@davealston3881 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Did you sleep over under roof mostly or did you camp as well. ?

@rowanpage1452 2 жыл бұрын

I decided to leave the camping gear and stayed in BnB’s each night, with some stops at family in between.