Dirt and Trail June 2020-2

We now know
where Aust got
his nickname...
Bogiages he discovered Hard Enduro. And we are
sure glad he did because this young man seems to
be utterly fearless and has some amazing skills.
His dream was to do Roof Of Africa Gold class
at 16 – and last year he did just that – finishing in
a very respectable 14th place. Heinrich definitely
leans towards the more extreme stuff competing in
events like Nitex, the odd EWXC and the old Powasol
events. Earlier this year, he was invited to race as
a replacement for the injured Maddy Green in the
official Pepson Plastics Husqvarna national Enduro
team alongside Brett Swanepoel. Despite some
navigation issues, he had a very successful outing at
the Rover event – and people are paying attention.
Zander Goosen actually started riding with
our Adventure Company when he was but a snot
gobbler. Life and starting businesses and stuff got in
the way of important things like riding bikes – and
about 3 years ago, he started riding again. He is
like “Ou boet” to Heinrich and a couple of the other
youngsters.
He Loves Hard Enduro on his Husqvarna 300TPI,
but happily sits back to watch the laaities do the
seemingly impossible stuff.
Last year he raced Gold Roof.
Both of these guys race under the East Rand
based Holeshot motorcycles banner.
Something quite funny happened while we were
out there – we were up near the road and Heinrich
was attempting to jump this mad ass huuuuge rock
when the local constabulary rolled in. He timed it
perfectly and as they were checking out our media
permit, he flung himself about 15 kilometres up into
the air.
Well the police guys eyes nearly popped out of his
head… “Hau! These Mlungu’s are Crazy!!” Our permit
was promptly forgotten as the climbed out of the
vehicle to enjoy the show!
SA is such a cool place!
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