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Shoot! I'll be working in South Africa at that time. I am going to have to stay home in Colorado one of these summers, if only to make one of the FJR rallies. Have a safe and fun gathering!! Ron

Wish you a rapid recovery! Your incident re-instills my fear of running into deer with my 2005 FJR. I see them every dusk and dawn on my way into work and once hit one heading into work one morning. Fortunately for me (but not for the mule deer) that it was with my car, not the bike. Those mule...

I had to leave the house before putting my DVM on it. I'll do that this evening. Ron

I've searched the battery topics and simply think I need a new one. My 2005 FJR did not start Saturday. Lights came on as did the dashboard information, but cranking was weak and intermittent. The bike had been attached to a Battery Tender all winter. It is the original battery. I tightened...

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Whaddya mean 'get a dual sport?' Isn't the FJR dual sport enough for you? Ron

Jimusma, There definitely are concerns for safety. The crime rate is very high, and is associated with gratuitous violence. The **** rate is the highest in the world. Over time, I supposedly have learned where to go and not to go, and when. Still, I ignored some of my own rules of behavior this...

Thank you Old Michael! I can imagine those streets in the peak of the autumn. Have a wonderful Holiday season! Ron

Happy Birthday and what an amazing amount of miles! I thought I was doing well putting 10-12,000 on a year. Now, splitting time with my Kwack KLR 650, I don't even come close to 10,000. Being out of the country a few months a year cuts it back even further. I am VERY impressed with your FJR...

The crabs and coast are great, but the photos of tree-lined communities and farms really got to me. It just looks so bucolic and peaceful. The tree-lined streets remind me of the drawings of communities in children's books that date back to the 50's and 60's, except the photos are real life! I...

Thank you for the kind words, Fjrboomer. I've been going to South Africa since 1999, and I consider myself very fortunate and never take the opportunity for granted. As for the photography, I am forced by circumstances into the role of just a snap shooter because we are restricted to the...

Well, that makes one who thinks so! :lol: Thanks, OCfjr! There is a price to pay for the adventure. The ceiling on my cottage collapsed during a rain storm: I was mugged once. I was electrocuted in the shower. Someone stole the ground cable for the cottages. While holding the shower...

At the Moholoholo Rehab Center, we saw our first leopard of the trip. Look at the size of his neck! He had been caught in a trap just outside the park as a cub. A little try at artsy: A hyena's jaw strength is enormous: I was in SA working on cleanup of uranium contamination derived...

The rainy season has been late by about a month for the last 3-4 years. You have to look hard for water if you want to see hippies...hippos: There are plenty of blue Wildebeest in the park: Cheetah are much more rare. In the 19,000 sq kilometer park, there are only about 200 Cheetah...

Yeh, that is one, ugly puppy! But you have to admit that it really is trying to fit in: The porker was the runt of the litter and rejected by his mother. However, he adopted the mother pictured in the above photo and another mother who could feed him: When I drove to the University of the...

I don't have a lot of photos from the weekend of motorcycling, but I do have photos from a visit to Kruger National Park, the Moholoholo Rehabilitation Center just outside of Kruger, and other interesting places around South Africa. I just don't know if these non-motorcycle photos are acceptable...

I just returned from several months working in South Africa and have a nice story to share. This summer (2008), I wrote a letter to the editor of BikeSA magazine, the major motorcycle magazine in South Africa. In it, I stated just how much I enjoy BikeSA and how much better it is than the...

It was a strain on my system, but I managed. Actually, I could add about 6000 miles this year. There is another couple thousand on the KLR 650, but that doesn't count. I'll probably put another thousand or so on before I have to go out of country for a few months. That means I will miss the...

Well, let's see. Riding from home to NAFO and back twice: 1 mile 60 mile ride up Golden Gate Canyon, to Nederland, and back down Coal Creek Canyon: 60 miles (if that much) Ron

If they would work, I'd mount them backwards on the car to draw them in while hunting. :D Ron