Author: Johan Fleischer (Page 11 of 37)
On the cold Thanksgiving Weekend, Tex got three of his friends to help him to go and collect the 4 new KTM 1190’s that we bought on E-Bay for the American Legs (as the three South African bikes could not be imported into the USA. ) You might remember Gregg from the Leg through China, we called him Dog as he loved entertaining the kids with his Dog-Mask, well, he was part of the team that flew to Iowa to go and collect the 4 new bikes for us.… Read More
While some of us are working our butt’s off at work to get everything ready to be able to leave on Thursday evening, Pie is already there, in a small town Denison, (Texas) where he us busy riding some of his old Vintage Studebaker’s. As you know by now Pie is a collector of Pre-War Studebaker’s. He also started a Studebaker Motor-Museum in Denison.… Read More
I stepped onto the Gautrain at 16h00 on Thursday afternoon, and today Tex picked us up at the airport 27 hours later, 27 hours of non stop traveling (apart from a few hours spent in the Airport lounges at OR Thambo and in Atlanta.
But there was no time for resting after arriving at Tex’s house, there was work to be done on the new bikes.… Read More
Last night’s Line Dancing, (or Square Dancing) was a disaster. We went to The Big Texas Dance Hall, it was full of Cowboys and Cow-Girls, yes, Hats and Boots are big here. They play mostly Country Music, with some songs everyone lines-up on the dance floor in rows, all facing forward, and then the idea is to all dance together, but one has to know the moves, there is one person in front who leads the group but I did not even attempt this as there is a lot of steps going forwards and then to the left, then a slap of your boots, then a step to the right and more slapping, this time using your hat etc.… Read More
The ride to “The Circuit of the Americas” where the Motorbike Grand Prix was taking place near Austin was just more than 100 Miles from Tex’s Ranch, where there are no Quarter Horses, (not even half a horse) as I discovered after I sent out yesterdays Blog, the previous owner had the horses and that was why it was still written on the name-board of the Farms sign at the entrance to the Ranch.… Read More
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