Central Kalahari - Botswana - 🌞🇧🇼 - Watch this before attempting the Thick Sand

[@richardcranna]

Loving watching the latest adventure guys! Keep them coming 🍻

[@sunsettribegear]

Thanks Richard!

[@ChrisDYoung]

Well done guys You don’t know until you know 💥💥💥

[@sunsettribegear]

Exactly! 🤣 We knows not what we knows not.

[@cobussnyman3032]

And now you know.

[@davecoetzee9510]

Great video, thanks guys, that is sweating blood, just came back from a trip to Angola with lot of sand, I know what you went through, julle is ysters👍👍👊👊👊

[@sunsettribegear]

Hi Dave. Thanks for the compliment! Keep on adventuring 👍🏻🤘🏻

[@jensmomsen9133]

Watched Almost all your videos Must say Never seen someone have so much bad luck with Tyres as you guys😮.Love your videos though very Entertaining Keep em coming!!👍

[@sunsettribegear]

Howzit Jens, thanks man! Yeah. We have had an inordinate amount of struggles with wheels in our search for the best solution. We have gone full tubeless conversion now and it seems to do the trick! 🤞🏻

[@vapour250]

Groot knaters manne, groot knaters!

[@sunsettribegear]

Groot knaters = klein brein 🤣🤣🤣

[@vapour250]

@@sunsettribegear well as jy daai sand slaan moet jy maar net brein afsit en go anders sien jy jou gat ne

[@sunsettribegear]

Net so.

[@martinkotze3351]

Hell dit lyk lekker. Sal like om iewer en een dag so te kan toer. Kort nog net n bike.

[@sunsettribegear]

Martin, was vir lank net n droom. Maar begin met enige bike. Selfs n 200 dal die job doen!

[@dimitristsagdis7340]

I've been driving large adventure bikes for 30+ years and I did the Kalahari on a two door 4x4 Jimny (ideally suited cause very light). I wouldn't take a large adventure bike there. Everybody's risk appetite is different but consider yourselves lucky, it could have gone far worst.

[@sunsettribegear]

Its one of our motos Dimitri, "it could have been worse"

[@francoisdewaal7809]

Love your channel

[@sunsettribegear]

Thanks Francois!

[@peterkoning21]

T700's spot on bikes for the trip !

[@sunsettribegear]

Thanks. We have done the same trip with 501 and XR650 before, but little match up to the T7s. Just love them!

[@larsthor9691]

So the KTM clutch lasted 80 km. Good to know. Should've taken the T7s or a Honda. Great video and adventure . Thanks for sharing 👍

[@sunsettribegear]

Sorry to say my friend but it was one of the T7s that blew the clutch. Thanks for the compliment!

[@andredupreez3684]

Honda Africa twin

[@andredupreez3684]

A question you had M Desert on then you went to i think K Big block for this trip why not going back to Desert couldn't you get? Also why so many punchers what is your rear tire pressure? Also think about dropping a front teeth on sprocket 15 especially in sand and technical with that loads....

[@sunsettribegear]

Hi Andre. We converted to tubeless while running the Motoz desert and couldnt get tubeless versions at that stage. Weve been running the tubeless bigblocks and they have not given any issues.

[@Motographyza]

Awesome, but done some sand in Zim and bots myself, and hate the stuff.... not for me and becomes more of a pain than adventure.... but well done.

[@sunsettribegear]

I cant disagree. It becomes just a massive challenge where you are not looking forward to the next km. Short stretches of sand is fine but when it becomes 100km of sand it’s relentless.

[@Kamanya]

Are you guys on Wilddogs? There's 24000 of us fellow adventurers in there. Post your trip reports/videos in our Ride Report section for this. You guys will fit right in!

[@sunsettribegear]

Well be sure to join on wilddog! Thanks for the ref. Ill register today!

[@jurievisagie9494]

Ek haal my hoet af vir julle

[@sunsettribegear]

Dankie Jurie

[@SenditDingo]

Wies die ou wat neer gemoer het lyk sterk soos n pel van my van cradock af ou danny😎

[@sunsettribegear]

🤣 - Daar het n paar manne neer gemoer! Maar Danny was een van hulle.

[@SenditDingo]

@ dis danny se sryle daai maar lyk awesome manne😎

[@peterkoning21]

"Don't know if there's enough fuel, water, petrol, but I'm sure the Klippies stock would be bevange !!!😂😂

[@sunsettribegear]

To be honest. We were carrying way more water and fuel! But there is always room for sufficient Klippies! 🤣

[@russellhulley8268]

Next time rather take a support vehicle to carry the luggage so you can ride light plus you can take a freezer to keep the ice frozen so the Brannas is lekker cold

[@sunsettribegear]

Hi Russell, we attempt to do all our trips unsupported. Stupid some might say….

[@danielvolschenk3103]

Bikes most suited for this kind of trip are KTM 500, 690, XR 650, etc. I've done a similar in the 80s through the Kalahari and across Namibia to Swakopmund on my XR 500 and it was a blast. your bikes are way too heavy for those conditions....

[@sunsettribegear]

We have also done similar Botswana tracks with the 500 and XR650 so we know the drill.

[@theruffiankj4164]

XR 650, or DR 650. And less kak in your luggage. Less dop, more water. Better fitness ...🥴

[@vapour250]

Sal dalk n goeie idee wees om n jumpstart battery pack saam te ry

[@sunsettribegear]

Battery is bietjie swaar, maar ons ry nou n jumper cable saam.

[@andredupreez3684]

Where was this road in Botswana?

[@sunsettribegear]

It was the Eastern cutline of the CKGR from Lephepe north.

[@jackrhodes6811]

Are we supposed to guess the position on the map?

[@sunsettribegear]

Hi Jack. What position do you want mate?