Saturday 30 August 2008

What do you want?

As adventure bikers living in South Africa we all very fortunate to live in a country that has such stunning scenery, good weather (excepting this weekend, which has been atrocious) and good people to ride with. 

However, being quite isolated from Europe and the US, allot of our biking accessories have to be imported. This has had the effect of high priced trick bits, which have only been afforded by the high income consumers. A great example of a South African success is Wild at Heart, (see link), who have began to manufacture their own accessories, and with the hard work of Johan (owner) we are now spoiled with a wide choice of locally made, high quality and well priced biking bits. 

One area that I personally feel we still need some catching up is in the publishing industry. Wouldn't it be great to have one source of reading material that provides everything we want to know about. You may be thinking "Top Bike" does this, but for me one magazine a month is not enough. This is the point of this Blog. 

My vision is to create an active space where, together with the effort from readers and myself, we can provide each other with interesting reads, news updates, trip reports and all the other interesting aspects relating adventure biking SA.

Tell me what you guys want... and feel free to add posts, so we can deliver South Africa's most interesting and frequently updated read. 

1 comment:

Dennis Bartlett said...

Well done! I know what it's like to create a blog and no-one comments! Yes, a blog is a good idea, but the danger is always that you MUST update it frequently - since it is date based, anyone coming thru seeing a date from 3 months back simply clicks along elsewhere. As for Wild Dogs, I'm Inglsman. So yes.. well done..!!!