29 till 31-12-2002 Dive and Relax, what else? The last days from this year I spend what you can do best in Dahab, Dive and Relax. I also went around town to arrange some transportation for me and my bike to get to Cairo. As my bike was running so poor and couldn’t find the [...]
First of all sorry I did not wrote a news letter sooner, but there where some other things on my mind. 06 till 14-12-2002 Getting better in Madaba As I cannot remember when I did what, just a small a brief story of what I did these days. There is not much to tell also [...]
Yesterday the 3rd of December I had a severe accident on the way from Madaba to Karak in Jordan. The bike looks okay but the Tesch-cases and the rack are completely gone. I will have to make new ones. My Laptop is broken (till now no luck with electronics), so now I cant read out [...]
Went to the Dutch Motorcycle Trade fair in Utrecht (Motorbeurs Utrecht). Talked to EVA motors, who prepare bikes as well, only I prefer the rack from berndtech / XTravels. He did point me to a couple of other things I might want to change. This is a different Air-filter and he will provide me with [...]
Had a meeting with Patrick from XTravels. He made several trips to the Sahara, has his own saharatravelburo now and knows how to prepare bikes! With him I am going to make the following changes to the bike: Fit a Kickstarter, build a rack, fit a Cylinder Head Temperature Gauge (it’s cheap and tells you [...]
Bought myself a nice bike for the trip. Although Yamaha is on its return and KTM is taking over. Certainly when they keep on winning Dakar. I choose an old but reliable bike. The Yamaha XT 600 Z from 1990 a 3AJ. It needs some work to get it Africa proof. I will do that [...]