JeffD Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Rather fix the R74, or is it a Free State vs KZN governmental issue?
tombeej Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Dipslick, just to put you right, I am a 4x4 owner. I learnt to drive 4x4s before I learnt to drive a 'normal' car. I don't have any issues with 4x4 owners at all. Just the entitled Sandton pavement hoppers who like to work and live in lovely paved cities and away from dust and grime, but want to keep a place like Sani undeveloped and unpaved so that they can drive down the pass once every couple of years and say to their mates what an epic 4x4 experience it is. It's not. It's just a regular road that literally requires no 4x4 skills at all (except in bad rain/snow) that links 2 countries and services the local community very poorly at the moment. It needs to be brought into the 21st century, like all our other main regional and national roads. That is the point. Oh, and when it's tarred the local border post officials will close the pass if it becomes too dangerous, just as they do now all the time.
DIPSLICK Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 Dipslick, just to put you right, I am a 4x4 owner. I learnt to drive 4x4s before I learnt to drive a 'normal' car. I don't have any issues with 4x4 owners at all. Just the entitled Sandton pavement hoppers who like to work and live in lovely paved cities and away from dust and grime, but want to keep a place like Sani undeveloped and unpaved so that they can drive down the pass once every couple of years and say to their mates what an epic 4x4 experience it is. It's not. It's just a regular road that literally requires no 4x4 skills at all (except in bad rain/snow) that links 2 countries and services the local community very poorly at the moment. It needs to be brought into the 21st century, like all our other main regional and national roads. That is the point. Oh, and when it's tarred the local border post officials will close the pass if it becomes too dangerous, just as they do now all the time.
nonky Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 last chance to see / do? http://www.roag.co.za/enter-an-event/mtb/sani-transfrontier-epic.aspx http://www.drakmtbclub.co.za/
MTBc Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 last chance to see / do? http://www.roag.co.z...ntier-epic.aspx http://www.drakmtbclub.co.za/ 42km "Epic" ?
HappyMartin Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 It's not difficult to do Sani in any 4X4. The problem is once you up then what. The roads on to Lesotho are not good. Sometimes it's more tricky getting through Lesotho than up or down Sani so unless the road on to Mokothlong is also tarred I see little use in it. Other than an awesome road climb on a bike. It was great on an MTB and I will totally show up with my road bike if they tar it.
Cois Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 I see another road that will fall under the "white tax" initiative of South Africa
Brian Fantana Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 It's not difficult to do Sani in any 4X4. The problem is once you up then what. The roads on to Lesotho are not good. Sometimes it's more tricky getting through Lesotho than up or down Sani so unless the road on to Mokothlong is also tarred I see little use in it. Other than an awesome road climb on a bike. It was great on an MTB and I will totally show up with my road bike if they tar it. There is extensive road building going on between Sani Top and Mokhotlong. I think the pass will be the last part of the project.
nonky Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 42km "Epic" ? 21kms of epic uphill and 21kms of epic downhill = epic2
MTBc Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 21kms of epic uphill and 21kms of epic downhill = epic2 sounds fun!
DIPSLICK Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 46million per kilo? What on earth are they using?Think boomaville. Same thing they going to take a couple of bar do a half assed job and be gone, before it's finished, PLACE YOUR BETS.?
T-Bob Posted May 22, 2014 Posted May 22, 2014 If it snows and frosts as much as people make out then they'll have to think long and hards about getting something down that will stand the heat and the sub zero temps without breaking open. Was in the UK a couple of weeks back and heaps of roads there were damaged from the winter they just copped. Wet then the water freezing cracked up a lot of surfaces. Hell, if they tar that puppy then I'll there with my road machine and a big smile! Only been up once (in a Navara without any 4x4 or diff) and it is an incredible spot for sure.
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