Give us this day our daily ride !

Yip - that's a hot number ! And, the bike's not bad either!

Heidi and Adam sitting atop the Polaris Trailblazer 250, waiting for Zi's bike to be topped up with fuel, just before our 3rd ride this week!

The bike is quite large as can be seen in the pic, and is REALLY comfy, with plenty power under the throttle.

I am pretty happy with the trailer I got, seeing that I managed to load all 3 bikes onto it this evening, and found it rather trouble-free to manuever into position on my own.
(bikes are loaded, in anticipation of a trip out to Eteza tomorrow....watch for report back on this one)

More pics from Sunday's outride

Thaven, trying to get Ashika jubilant about having crossed the train line - moments later, a train passed that very spot, at top speed ! We wont be doing that again in a hurry !

Thaven, taking the long way around this water feature....
Ashika, leaning back into her seat, after reaching home base at the end of a fun and fulfilling ride

Aziz couldn't wait much longer to get going....

Heidi and Adam didn't get going at all, this being the first and last time the No Limit 150 ATV was to see any rider action....

On the Road !

On the Road !
Originally uploaded by Dinosaur Dad.

Cheating the weather, though it did rain a little, we had a great outride exploring the forest roads around Kwambonambi, as an introduction to quad biking for Ashika.

We turned back for Heidi and Adam, but her bike didn't work ! Gotta see about that !!!

WW wishes Thaven and Ashika a great trip to India, and we hope that they can handle the long wait until our next ride together....

Date : 10 December
Riders : Aroon + Aziz, Jerome, Thaven, Ashika
Bikes : Polaris 300 Hawkeye, 350 Raptor, 700 Raptor, 200c ATV
Route : General exploring along forest paths in and around Kwambonambi

Launch of Weekend Warriors BLOG

Welcome to Weekend Warriors, the BLOG pages of Team WW, a bunch of fellers (thus far, no chix), in Zululand, South Africa, trying to get to grips with quad biking in the Great Outdoors....

Visit here for updates of our weekend antics, and anticipate the following :

Photos of our trips
GPS co-ordinates of our trails and destinations
Discussions on the bikes we ride

Jolly Rubino

Date : Friday 1st December 2006

Riders : Aroon, Thaven, Jerome, Vincent
Bikes : Raptor 350, Raptor 700, Raptor 350, Raptor 700
Conditions : Overcast, but dry





Trail : Kwambonambi to Mapelane, to the wreck of the Jolly Rubino

GPS : eTrex Legend
Camera : CANON digital IXUS
Refreshments : lots of powerade

Average speed : 65 kph
Maximum speed : 121 kph (oops!!!)
Duration of trip out : 1.5 hrs
Duration of trip back : 1 hr

Thaven had gotten the co-ordinates for the wreck to load into his GPS, and was very keen to navigate by handheld....

After a delay waiting for Vincent's borrowed bike's key to be brought to Kwambo (left it behind, somehow !) we made off towards the Jolly Rubino, on the Mapelane road. After a couple of detours, following the GPS rather than gut feel, we got back onto the main Mapelane road and gassed it to the beach.

The entire trip took us about 2.5hrs.

Some safety tips :
1. when riding in built-up areas, SLOW DOWN
2. riding on roads (tarred or gravel) - keep to the left, and in single file - the gravel roads were quite dusty, and we tried to keep out of the dust by riding two abreast, but after dodging local traffic, we switched to single file.
3. note that tarred roads with large potholes can be more hazardous than dirt tracks, for quads ! the quads don't handle that well on tar, especially at speed in corners.
PS. Cow droppings are far more difficult to navigate than potholes.


Gadgets to get for next trip : Hydropack - taking off helmets just to take a sip became quite annoying !