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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Category: Touring Bikes

Happy retirement biking: What’s the right bike for older riders?

19th January 2021 Web Editor Features, Touring Bikes

In this series of articles we show you how to keep riding into your retirement and still enjoy every single mile…

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South Africa tour, day 11: Back to Cape Town, the long way round

31st December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

The last day of riding in South Africa. How did we get here so quick? It seemed that we’d only just started, but at the same time we’d covered a whole heap of things in the two weeks we’d been on the road.

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South Africa tour, day 10: Penultimate riding day

30th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

This was a different day of riding in two ways: first of all, it was cloudy with showers forecast. For the first time on the tour I closed the air-vents in my jacket, and as if by a miracle I wasn’t instantly covered in sweat.

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South Africa tour, day 9: To the southernmost tip of Africa

29th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

Today was another long slog of 400+km. But the reward at the end was big too: Cape Agulhas, Africa’s southernmost point.

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South Africa tour, day 8: From wilderness to Wilderness

28th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

This was a long day in the saddle. We left the Mount Camdeboo Nature Reserve nice and early to make the most of the cool temperature because the forecast for the day was 39°C.

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South Africa tour, day 7: Turning back

27th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

This was not a long day in the saddle, but it was a significant one: Today our progress to the East came to an end, and we started make our ziggedy zaggedy way back to Cape Town.

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South Africa tour, day 6: Elephant safari

26th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

Day six was the first one where we didn’t even touch the bikes. Instead we headed off to a safari in the Addo Elephant National Park.

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South Africa tour, day 5: All the way to the East

25th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

After two nights in Oudtshoorn, we were on the move again. And today’s ride was a long one – 455km of country lanes to Addo, near Port Elizabeth.

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South Africa tour, day 4: Ostriches and dirt roads

24th December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

This was always going to be a day of fun. We started with a visit to an ostrich farm, and then took on a circular route on the bikes covering both tarmac and dirt mountain passes, and ending up exactly where we had started from, Oudtshoorn.

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South Africa tour, day 3: Into the Little Karoo

23rd December 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, Touring Bikes

I thought that the second day of riding had been hot, with temperatures climbing to 34°C. But as I was staring at my bike’s dash in disbelief, I was faced with a reading of 39°C.

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