…If you’re riding an heavily overloaded motorcycle at 120 KPH at night in in the dark in deep gravel while being chased by feral dogs somewhere in southern Namibia, and you’re pretty sure you hit a bird at high speed that exploded all over the right side of your radiator, boot, and pant leg, but […]

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There are several basic rules for doing motorcycle repair on the road in Africa.
#1. Getting parts and tools on the road is a pain in the ass.
#2. Getting parts and tools on the road is a pain in the ass.
#3. See rules #1 and #2.
Having a decent place to work on the bike is often […]

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While this is post #2, this episode actually happened prior to the ongoing bike dropping episodes described in post #1 . For those of you keeping score, my apologies.
I get asked all the time how I plan to ensure I don’t run out of gas (petrol) in Africa.
There are essentially three ways to […]

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This is the debut post of what is obviously going to be a very, very, very long series of posts.
One tough thing about riding on the left side of the road after you’ve spent your whole life riding on the right, besides the whole holy-crap-I’m-going-the-wrong-way-on-the-freeway-again thing, is turning.

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