Recent content by Osadabwa

Wonderful, thanks! Though I wish I were able to promise better, more varied stuff. Previous years have had us up in Northern Kenya and Northern Tanzania and everything in between. So far though, apart from that one nice ride to the Tugan hills and Bogoria, it's been all short stuff. But there...

Morning came on little cat’s feet… tied to kettle drums, attached to the inside of my head it felt like. And another cat had rolled in its own scat, scampered over and tumbled in a patch of cockleburs and began performing somersaults on my tongue. I was the last to crawl out of his sandy cocoon...

Gawking around in search of a bit of shade for a snack break, Panic trundled off a ledge into deep sand and stacked it at about 60kph. Ploughed through the dirt with his face prepping to plant potatoes, it looked like. No zero-till ag here, no siree. Had to climb out from under the bike, but...

We managed to get together four XR650Rs for a ride! That’s the most since I don’t know when, and on an overnighter no less! We were dragging along our mate Officer Flattop van der Dawg on his T7. It’ll only be his second overnight ride on the big girl. Last time he went with Panic he lost half...

No idea. Dawg's were brought in from SA.

Well it looks like maybe that plan couldn't happen even if I had wanted to! She broke herself in Tanzania not far from Mbeya. Seems TZ is the Bermuda Triangle for semi-famous YouTube ADV riders. First Poskitt, now Itchy Boots. Sijui.

Sun is shining! Time to go for a ride and see what’s what down in the Valley. Panic and I met Wry at the usual morning quarry Ngong Hills viewpoint. The plan was to ride the SGR and see if we can click Wry’s shock and forks into behaving better. I gave it a few kms. Shock seemed fine to me, but...

It's been pretty wild but like everything else it mostly effects the poor. We've had to avoid the main roads at times because they have half a meter of water in them, trees have been falling down a lot, and wall fences... some of my kit is moulding in the garage from lack of use, but nothing...

It's further evidence that forums are not an easy way to match people with similar interests. If you noticed on the first page there are links to eight other year-long compilations... many much more active than this one so far. I sometimes go back and live vicariously though my own adventures...

Well, Malawi's just a wee bit far... happy to say hi when she's in Kenya since we're kind of the only Honda lovers here (to help her with interesting routes, repairs, finding things etc), but I suspect she'll have a lot of others interested in showing her around. Kenya's got a pretty big group...

Has it been raining in Kenya? Yes, yes it has. Plenty. Did that stop us from riding? Surprisingly, no! Ordinarily, the faintest whiff of precipitation in the air or in an app will confine Panic to quarters, shivering under blankets and snuggling his dogs, but apparently if the riding hiatus is...

Had a minute to take off the rear tyre and see what kind of damage my bushcraft leleshwa tree mousse did. Turns out the tyre is A-OK, so I'll whack a new tube in there and ride it until it's dead. Then I'll figure out if I go back to TUBliss. Above: It's about the size of an elephant turd...

SNAFU in the Valley - A cack-handed mess of my own invention. I go down the Kedong section of the Rift Valley so frequently it feels like my backyard. Whether it’s returning from a hike on Mt. Longonot, or starting a day ride off with a bang, I usually pick the SGR access road. It’s fast, but...

Part IV - Repairs, more successful fishing, and home. First thing in the morning, between tea and breakfast, Wry removed his wheel and we saw the damage. As suspected, the hit in TZ had been hard enough to cut a three inch slice in the carcass. We implemented the sleeve plan, inflated the tyre...

Part III - Scrambling to Lake Ellis and the Elephant-encounter At 11,300ft up Mt Kenya’s flank on the lovely Chogoria trail, Lake Ellis is the highest place you can drive up Mt Kenya on this side of the mountain. After the Matonga, we donned kit and headed up. It was an easy going dirt road for...