2024 Buying a bike in South Africa to continue the 2023 overland ride.
Thursday 4 April 2024
Today is the day for flying out to South Africa. There has been quite a bit of planning in the run up to this day. The plan is to buy a bike in South Africa and to ride the Northern Cape Province and, time permitting, maybe go into Namibia and Botswana as well.
This follows on from the 2023 overland ride from the UK to SA down the West Coast route. That journey is covered under a separate thread (Motorcycle Overland 2023 UK to South Africa West Coast Route).
It would have been nice to have ridden more in Namibia and SA in 2023 but after 2.5 months riding through Africa the bike had taken a pounding and needed maintenance and I was ready for a break. The Red Africa Twin from that ride is back in the UK and running very well after a rebuild.
It is just too expensive to freight the bike back to SA to continue riding it. The plan is to use the money which would have been wasted on freighting the bike to SA to just buy a second hand bike in SA instead. Here we go.
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