Dirt Busters

Dirt Busters
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New horizons beckon around each bend when popular crime writer Deon Meyer and photographer Adriaan Oosthuizen take on the country's most beautiful off-road routes. They share some of the challenges they faced and the interesting characters they met as they went in search of adventure and spectacular scenery.
Their favourite routes cover nearly the entire country and are aimed at both experienced and novice riders. The route descriptions read like travel stories, with each one offering something different to discover: a breathtaking pass, a meandering river, charming old farm buildings or a deserted stretch of the Karoo.
The book also contains a riding guide, which explains the theory behind adventure motorbiking. It offers several handy tips, such as how not to fall over on a sandy road, how to navigate dongas and streams, how to do an emergency brake and how to avoid accidents in general.
– Over 30 routes are described and graded – Dramatic landscape photography – Colourful maps illustrate each route – Guide with practical riding tips

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Деон Мейер. Dirt Busters

Introduction – Deon Meyer

To Hell and Back

The secret of the Rooiberg Mountains

In Calitzdorp’s backyard

When you think you’ve seen it all: Cloete’s Pass

Seweweekspoort

The unexpected beauty (and baboons) of the Witteberg

The old Montagu Pass

Follow the Kammanassie (Oudtshoorn to Uniondale)

The Marlboro man in the Knysna forest

Sutherland and Merweville

The two most beautiful passes in the upper Karoo

Cederberg magic

A s*** road on the West Coast

Burger fever in the bundu (Vredendal to Springbok)

A day trip from Cape Town

The other Oorlogskloof

Memel

Forgotten Monantsa (the eastern Free State and Lesotho)

Enchanting Moolmanshoek

The dominee and the sports bike

ABS in the Mail Coach Pass

(Far) Waterberg

Paulpietersburg

Staaljan in Perdekloof

When pigs fly in Loxton

The Tankwa-Karoo

Papkuilsfontein

Baviaanskloof

All roads lead to Rietbron

A snake in the grass: Following the Tarka and Baviaans rivers

Gariep to Steynsburg

Along the Mountain Zebra National Park (Cradock to Somerset East)

Sundays River: Jansenville to Graaff-Reinet

At the heart of the matter: fear, ego and traction

The Three Commandments for surviving dirt roads

The Third Commandment: OPEN UP

Momentum (inertia)

The First Commandment: STAND UP

The finer points of standing up

Setting your bike up for standing

The consequences of standing up

Fringe benefits

The Second Commandment: LOOK UP

At full throttle

Emergency braking

Accidents … and how to avoid them

Master the terrain I

Master the terrain II

Settings: suspension

Settings: tyres

Head to toe: protective gear

Riding suits, gloves and boots

Buying the right bike

Epilogue: The spirit of adventure

Acknowledgements

About the book

About the authors

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Text by DEON MEYER

Photography by ADRIAAN OOSTHUIZEN

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You go places that even 4×4s can’t – like the sandy footpaths between Melkbosstrand and the West Coast road, the spooky bluegum forest on Jan’s farm in Amersfoort and the swimming hole at Klipbokkop Mountain Reserve near Worcester. I describe, with growing passion, the thick, white sand of Mozambique. I explain how you can gallop with giraffe through the Pongola Game Reserve, explore muddy mountain trails on paunchy ridges protruding from Lesotho, beyond Rhodes. I so badly want them to understand, to fire them up. If they could only once share in the camaraderie of four or five or six motorbikes in high-speed convoy, or experience the sensation of a sliding rear wheel that you straighten out with the power of the accelerator round a curve.

But not everyone gets it. I never say so, but I think it must be in your genes. I imagine how a million years ago there must have been primitive people who, when they saw a game trail winding up a mountainside, felt an irrepressible urge somewhere deep inside them to follow it. Just to see what was on the other side and to keep on walking.

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