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25,000 miles with Luke and Nick
The plan is to ride from South Africa to Norway in 5 months and document it along the way. There is only one problem. Our bikes are not showing up. They were supposed to be here 3 weeks ago. In the mean time we have done the following...
This is Nick http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...%205/cover.jpg This is me aka Luke http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%204/1.jpg We like doing hand stands in weird places. This is the pool in our hostel where we have been staying for the last 3 weeks. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...%203/cover.jpg I guess we need a picture of the bikes. Right now they are somewhere between Chicago and Cape Town. 2008 KTM 690 2009 BMW F800GS http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/1.jpg I type in Orange Nick aka nrader types in Green We have a website set up where we post official entries, but I personally like this place better, so I'll be posting here quite often. Maybe I'll even be able to finish this ride report, unlike my last one. www.lukeandnick.com |
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Shark Diving
The bikes are at the Cape Town Airport now. They should clear customs monday morning (tomorrow)
We went shark diving off the coast of South Africa. This is a little video I made. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19066721?color=ff9933" width="670" height="377" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>Shark Diving off the coast of South Africa.</p> |
Good to see you back posting another trip. Neat video in the cage. :clap:clap
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Looks like that third dude in the hot tube aint wearing trunks.:eek1
Not that there ia anything wrong with that.... Just makes headstands dangerous I guess....:lol3 |
This is going to be a great :thumb
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Getting There
Crating up the bikes was a semi-stressful event, but in the end we were really happy with the finished product. It was a 2-day event and Mr. Nick managed to skip out of day 2 due to a "work party." You see Nick is an enginer and quit his job to do this trip.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/1.jpg Crate Finished http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/2.jpg The next day we drove around clare getting paperwork notorized and making copies for Worldwide Shipping Co. We drove down to Chicago to drop off the bikes. The guys working there were really friendly, but didn't have muh info for us. Apparently they are just the 3rd party that takes the crate to the airport. We just signed a release paper and left. So now we are driving back to Clare without the bikes. We havn't paid for shipping and just hope that our quote was accurate. Well, the quote wasn't accurate. They tacked on another $400 haha. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/3.jpg I tend to put things off till the last minute and packing for the trip was no exception. Finally at 6:30 a.m. after an all-nighter I was ready to leave. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/4.jpg The morning we left Nick's dad who is an anesthetist taught me how to stich up an orange and went through the med kit that he put together for us. We are pretty much a mini-pharmacy. Typical airport stuff happened next, I got my cell phone turned off for the next 5 months. I didn't call my friend Jesse Neil and I got called out for it via facebook. (sorry Jesse) we landed in Frankfurt and had to claim our checked luggage because the layover would be 10 hours. We checked it back in, then took a train to the city. The ticket booth was confusing so we just hopped on the train sans tickets. It worked out ok and we made it just fine. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/6.jpg It was really cold there with snow and ice on the ground. It's alwasy cool to see the weird cars and bikes that they don't have in America. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ntry%201/8.jpg This would be the last picture taken where I am not sweating profusely. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...try%201/11.jpg back on the place we slept and woke up to some eggs and spinach. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...try%201/12.jpg It started getting light and the clouds parted.... AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!! This is Namibia http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...try%201/13.jpg After the 11 hour flight we land in Cape Town South Africa stinky, greasy and happy. Now time to find a place to stay for the night. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...try%201/14.jpg |
I will be looking forward to this story!!!
What happened to the Husky? |
going to be an interesting ride report!
great videos on your site, how did you make the intro/outro? really cool! |
can't what to read it:D looks good so far.:clap
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Good luck, you crazy cats! |
looks good! I want to see that 690 in action!
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