Hi Ian! Your videos always make me dream of places you've been. Nature there in Africa is naturally preserved and so beautiful. You have a such good sense for all that beauty and silence around. It so nice to disturb that silence with your Akrapovic and to enjoy it in the lodges...with your pool-crashing friends ;)) Good that you are sharing with us all this. Thanks a lot!!! Keep the spirit up and keep sharing! Cheers! Ivo
Hey Ian, this may be one of the best videos you have done yet. Very interesting. Inspiring. I need to practice my dead pan demeanor, it works well. I struggle to narrate into a camera, like I am talking to myself. Ever considered putting up a map for a few seconds with a line drawn on it showing your daily run? You verbally describe most of your routes. Or, is the idea to keep the routes less public maybe? Anyway, I really liked this video, they keep on getting better. Great to see this part of the world. Funny how you don't see solar panels much. Hope you are well. Cheers -
Shayne Schwede - Hi Shayne. Thanks for great comments once again. You have made me think ... the map question is a good one. Truth be told, when I started all this I did not really know who I was aiming the videos at, I thought it was for the local riders (who thus know the routes quite well) but now I know it is not. The international guys like yourself seem to be the most interested and I get the largest response from there so I need to change my approach and a map will certainly help. Untill now I expected to only need to do the map part when I (eventually) head up through Africa to Norway at some stage in a few years time. Thanks for that. I do not believe that I come across all that well in the videos, we Safricans have a strong accent (as you can hear from Allen, and to think we grew up 4 miles from each other), I in turn, envy the William Gloege’s, and the Kinga’s of the YT world who so easily narrate where they have just been. Interestingly that you mention solar, this area (Northern Cape) just covered in this video has the largest areas of solar panels in South Africa but I have little footage of that and I did not include them. As always, thanks for the comments, most appreciated ... and more to come.
Thanks for another interesting reportage.
Nomad Thanks Nomad.
Stunning
Cornelie Davis - Thanks Corns, was great to see you both for 5 minutes. Hubby got both feet on the ground tomorrow I see ...
I can watch your video coverage all day.I dont even need to ride.Thks.
Bruce Kendall Thanks Bruce.
You are an interesting dude Ian...MAC from NJ
MAC #9 Yes boss ... life is too serious as it is . Cheers. Ian
Hi Ian! Your videos always make me dream of places you've been. Nature there in Africa is naturally preserved and so beautiful. You have a such good sense for all that beauty and silence around. It so nice to disturb that silence with your Akrapovic and to enjoy it in the lodges...with your pool-crashing friends ;)) Good that you are sharing with us all this. Thanks a lot!!! Keep the spirit up and keep sharing! Cheers! Ivo
Thank you for the nice comment, it is greatly appreciated. I will try to keep up the standards 😎
Hey Ian, this may be one of the best videos you have done yet. Very interesting. Inspiring. I need to practice my dead pan demeanor, it works well. I struggle to narrate into a camera, like I am talking to myself. Ever considered putting up a map for a few seconds with a line drawn on it showing your daily run? You verbally describe most of your routes. Or, is the idea to keep the routes less public maybe? Anyway, I really liked this video, they keep on getting better. Great to see this part of the world. Funny how you don't see solar panels much. Hope you are well. Cheers -
Shayne Schwede - Hi Shayne. Thanks for great comments once again. You have made me think ... the map question is a good one. Truth be told, when I started all this I did not really know who I was aiming the videos at, I thought it was for the local riders (who thus know the routes quite well) but now I know it is not. The international guys like yourself seem to be the most interested and I get the largest response from there so I need to change my approach and a map will certainly help. Untill now I expected to only need to do the map part when I (eventually) head up through Africa to Norway at some stage in a few years time. Thanks for that. I do not believe that I come across all that well in the videos, we Safricans have a strong accent (as you can hear from Allen, and to think we grew up 4 miles from each other), I in turn, envy the William Gloege’s, and the Kinga’s of the YT world who so easily narrate where they have just been. Interestingly that you mention solar, this area (Northern Cape) just covered in this video has the largest areas of solar panels in South Africa but I have little footage of that and I did not include them. As always, thanks for the comments, most appreciated ... and more to come.
I also had continuous tyre pressure problems with my AFRICA Twin front tyre only. It doesn’t like 1-5 pressure. I got rid of it because of that.