There has been a lot of virtual argy-bargy between the haves and have-nots about electric bikes but while the two camps fight, global sales are booming.
The Future’s Market
Whether travelling to Helsinki or the hereafter, it seems gadgetry (and some educated guess work) is set to change our lives.
Biker girls off on new ‘life’ ride
It’s way more than the usual concept of a bikers’ Sunday breakfast run. Speed and cornering won’t be very important but patience, guidance and saving lives will.
The 2012 Journey of Hope IS a bike ride but not by a bunch of heavies in leather, though some of the good ones generally tag along as escorts; the primary riders will be 16 breast-cancer survivors carrying a message of hope to women across (this time) kwaZulu-Natal that breast cancer needn’t kill.
The brave 16 will cover 1800km from October 6-14 riding and reaching out to rural communities by riding motorcycles from Pretoria to Bethlehem and focusing on the Eastern Free State then heading through the KZN Midlands and ending at uShaka Marine World in Durban.
Smiley Geely gets a little Cross
It’s testimony to Geely’s tenacity that the launch of its LC Cross actually happened. The day before the event the truck carrying the cars was side-swiped and jack-knifed 60km from the venue in Hoedspruit. Of the 11 cars aboard, seven were badly damaged and only four were able to be used (bearing war wounds).
A hastily executed Plan B had seven brand-new cars on the road from Midrand, just north of Johannesburg, at midnight and arrive an hour before the journalists at the newly opened Kapama game lodge outside Hoedspruit.
Doing Jimnastics around Bass Lake
HENLEY-ON-KLIP, Gauteng – Bass Lake, formerly the Glen Douglas dolomite quarry near here, is home to a 4×4 training ground that instructor Alan Pepper euphemistically describes as “a bit challenging”.
He’s a scuba-diving instructor with 35 years’ experience and a busy certification school running at the spring-fed lake who began his off-road training because “Vaalies don’t like the cold!”