A great breakfast run

For those who don't know, a breakfast run is an event for motorcyclists to get together one saturday or sunday early morning (7am to 8am) and then ride somewhere, have breakfast, and then ride some more and split up. It's a great social event as well as a time to go for some really great motorcycle riding. I rode with the Think Bike group this sunday. It was an awesome day :) Some pictures in my ALBUM HERE......

As you can see on the one picture here, it was VERY windy along the coastline, but it got much better and ended up as a terrific day for motorcycle riding with a lot of fun and interesting people to talk to as well.

Ek het 'n "nuwe" oud BMW gekoop

Finally got a decent car... as you all know I'm a BMW fanatic so when I saw this BMW 730i for sale at a bargain price, I decided to go for it.

I make up for it by selling my Hyosung at some point in the next two months.


For the technically inclined it has an M30B30 Inline-6 BMW engine, cylinder displacement is 3.0L. Automatic "lazy man" transmission. Total weight of car is 1725 kg which was quite a bit more than I thought!!

It has a few small things that I'm going to look at immidiately. The fuel gauge is dead, which is typical for all these cars anyway. The brakes are warped, so I might replace the front brake discs, but that's only about R200 each and since I'm going to do all repairs and maintenance myself I can save what I waste in fuel costs. It should use about 1 liter per 10 km.

Part of the motivation for buying this car is to have something for visitors whenever they may come.. I hope they will enjoy the smooth ride! The trunk (or "boot" for the anglophiles) is huge, you could probably fit 4 autofil-larsens in there...but then he's a very small fellow. :)

Some more photos taken in March '08 :)

Greetings and salutations my faithful readers... Nothing special has happened since last time, but I've uploaded some pictures from my latest motorcycle ride in the Boland of Western Cape. These are just a few, see the rest on http://rasterburn.org/~sgt/albums/South_Africa-March-2008/album1.html




There was a big fire in this area this summer, but as you can see it's starting to become green again.

My new address

It's been ages since I last updated this blog, and I apologize for that. To all my millions of readers out there, I promise you that this blog shall once again be updated uh, now and then! ;-) Since january (well actually early december), I've been residing at the following address (in case anyone wants to send me mail, hinthint):

1 Tortelduif straat
Onderpapegaaiberg
7600 Stellenbosch

I'm sure you're wondering how this new place looks like so here are some pictures.

First one of what you would see before you can enter the house... a 2 meter fence with an electric gate (typical south africa):



This is the house itself:


An outhouse where you can sit and relax..:


Another angle of the house:


This is a view of the Tortelduif (turteldue in Norwegian) street:


My current 4-wheeled ride parked outside in the shade. This is a Mercedes-Benz we nicknamed the Galactica, because it's huge like a big battleship. There's also a story behind the car. Some guy crashed into this car in Cape Town, but while his car had a huge dent and windows were smashed, there wasn't a single dent on this Mercedes. Definitely a solid german machine!