Africa 1985-1990
??.03.1985
- ??.08.1985
Kerle, Werner (German, born 1958) no www.
+
Gerrmany > Egypt - Sudan > Germany. Werner started to a long
tour with BMW R 80 G/S (1982) solo ca. 20.000 km. Because the motorcycle broke
down in Sudan he returned via Jugloslawia.
Route: Germany - Jugoslawia
- Greece - Turkey - Syria - Jordan (from Aquaba by a new ferry to Nuweiba
) - Egypt: Crossing through the Lybian dessert back to Aswan. Near Aswan on lake
Nasser the ferry netwenn Egypt and Sudan burnt and sunk two weeks before. So Werner
succeded to get ide along the coast to Sudan. "I had 3 days paperwork und a lot
of trouble to get the permisson to cross the military-area at the coast
of Egypt and the border to Sudan. I had to finish the exit-papers in Assuan
on the 27.5.1985 and to cross the borderline between the next two 2 days. From
Assuan to the coast (a little bit south of Marsa Alam) and then south to the border
abaut 500 kms. I had to carry 80 liters of fuel and 20 liters of water, also little
food and all my luggage on the BMW for this 1000 km-trip. From Marsa Alam it was
always off road. On the way were only 2 military controls on the Egypt side. The
track stopped about 100 kms before the Eygpt border where you find the last Egypt
military control - Sudan: There is no sign when you enter Sudan, but a camp
with huts and tents (military I think). No paperwork here. From here you have
to find your own track somehow along the coast. Until Port Sudan you have to find
your own rough and sandy route as well. There are no villages until Port Sudan.
In a tired moment I didn`t see a small sanddune and had a good flight. The
front from my bike was destroyed and when I woke up again my hole drinking water
was gone. Some hours later I was able to drive again. The track was going more
inland and one and a half hard days later I arrived in Port Sudan (31.5.1985)
where I had to do my paperwork. My bike broke down totally, because a part of
the shaft to the backweel was broken. I could fix them a bit and found a
ship to Jugoslavia (Pula, 26.07.85).
The best: Heartly inviatation
in Deir a Zor in Syria.
The Worst: Died nearly of thirst on the way
from Egypt ashore to Port Sudan. Lost ca. 20 kg.??
Useful tipps for others: I had a Tesch-Träger (rack) and leather bags and a 40-liter fueltank.
Never rode alone such lonely roads. Take part of the Tuareg-Rallye in march in
Morocco !
B.T.: Diese Route an der Küste ist
normalerweise verboten. Ich habe extrem selten davon gehört, daß das
Fahrzeuge (meistens von Süden kommend) geschafft haben. Es ist die erste
mir bekannte Motorradtour entlang der Küste.
06.03. -30.09.1985
Gotthold, Ulrich (German, geb. 02.12.1961)
+ Transafrica: North - West - East - South - Africa . Ulrich rode solo 20.000 km with YAMAHA SR 500 with and a 38 liter-fueltank (from B.Tesch) Transafrica.
Purpose of travel: To find out in life what he wants..??
Route: Europe: Germany ..??? - Africa: Morocco - Algeria - Niger - Burkina Faso - Togo - because of political problems the mc was send by ship to Congo (Pointe Noire) - Ulrich flew to Congo (Brazzaville) - Kinshasa - by boat with the mc on the river Congo to Zaire (Kisangani = Stanleyville - by bike to Bujumbura) . Rwanda - Burundi - Uganda - Kenia - Tansania - Zambia - Simbabwe - South Africa (Capetown). Back via ??
Publication: No Earlier big mc-tours: ??
Useful tips for others: ??
06.12.2006 1st contact and information about Ulrichs tour after 21 years. During the tel call Ulrich informed B.T. that he knows a Swiss couple: Eddi Anstatt who rode 2,5 years at his time in Africa and 90.000 kms. Ulrich promised to contact them to ask for a summary like this for my website about African travellers.
08.12.2006 1 st request for update
21.12.1985
- 13.01.1986
Wiechert, Hans (German, born in 1934)
Tunisia.
Algeria.Hans rodo solo with a Yamaha DT 175 MX.
Route:
Italy (Genua) - by boat to Tunis - Algeria (El-Qued - Deb-Deb - Illizi - Djanet
- Assekrem - Tamanrasset - In Salah - El Golea - Ghardaïa) - Tunis.
The
best: Grand Erg oriental. Gravures rupestres. Assekrem. Meeting the Rallye
Paris-Dakar in Tamanrasset.
Reason: Adventure. Sadnroses in desert.
The
Worst: All Zähne des Zahnrades des Primärantriebes abgeschliffen.
06.04.2002 1st sumary by Arne Ullmann.
26.12.1985 - 04.03.1986
Bernd Tesch
+
Solo Dakar - Germany against Rallye Paris > Dakar. Bernd fährt
11.500 km durch 9 afrikanische Länder auf einer Tesch - BMW R 80 G/S von
Dakar nach Aachen entgegen der Rallye "Paris Dakar" (und trifft sie 1,5 Tage),
um zu zeigen das "Reisen besser ist als Rasen". Das Besondere ist die erste Befahrung
von Guinee (Guinea) in Nord - Süd und West - Ost - Richtung nach 25 Jahren
für Touristen geschlossene Grenzen.
1987
Petra Thöne und Jörg Granderath
Senegal - Germany. Senegal (Dakar) - Deutschland (Aachen) in 3 Monaten 13.200 km auf einer BMW.
23.-24.04.88 Dia-Vortrag auf dem 10. MOTO - FERNREISE - TREFFEN
02.1988 + 6 weeks
Ines Leyens und Dr.Dr.Erich Jerusalem und Else und Joseph Hungs sind im Januar und Februar 1988 mit 2 Pinzgauer in 6 Wochen von + Germany - Chad - Germany. Aachen zum Tchad und zurück gefahren. Das Besondere war sicher die Durchquerung des algerischen Sandmeeres "Grand Erg Occidental" in Nord- Süd- Richtung. Diese Durchquerung hat der alte "Wüstenhase" Erich schon zweimal gemacht. Sie wurde nicht- wie in "Tours" kürzlich behauptet- zum ersten Mal befahren. Ganz interessant scheint mir der Unterschied im Fahrverhalten zwischen dem 6x6 Diesel- Turbo und dem 4x4 Pinzgauer zu sein.
1989 ca.
+ Transafrika. Reise-Führer. Reise-Bericht. (Europa). Afrika. 1990.
Didier Boullery.
Book: 70.000 km en Afrique. Carnet de bord et mode d'emploi d'une aventure en famille.
Deutsch : 70.000 km in Afrika. Tagebuch von dem Abenteuer einer Familie mit einer Gebrauchsanweisung für andere. Eine Familienreise mit einem ausgebauten Unimog und den 2 Söhnen mit Yamaha XT 500. Eine in Tagebuchform erzählte Geschichte einer Tour durch Trans-Afrika. Hin: Nord-, West-, Ost-, Süd-Afrika. Zurück: Süd-, West-, Nord-Afrika über die extrem selten befahrene Strecke von Kolwesi bis Kinshasa. 26 Staaten in Afrika in 9 Monaten. Der Bilanzanhang nach 70.000 km Afrika-Tour: Empfehlung von 200 Reise km / Tag. Unterwegs gab es 135 Kontrollen, sie brauchten 13 Pässe, hatten 4 Festnahmen, besuchten 14 National Parks, machten 4000 Fotos, hatten 11 Unfälle und brachten 18 kg Souvenirs mit nach Hause. Viel Aufschluß gibt eine genaue tabellarische Übersicht aller Angaben der Kosten, der Vorbereitung und Kostenbereiche pro Land. Gesamtkosten FF 400.000 (entspricht DM 116.000). Dieses Buch bietet viele Informationen für Trans-Afrika-Touren, insbesondere für solche Reisende, die mit einem Auto und Motorrad zusammen fahren wollen. Die Yamaha XT 500 wurde notfalls vorne auf einer Halterung vor dem Unimog 404 S transportiert. 272 S. 55 SW-Fotos. 43 Farbfotos. 3 Kartenskizzen. Französisch. Verlag: Solar. Paris. Frankreich. 1990. ISBN 2-63-01533-7. FF 120 (1991)
02.1989 - 08.1990
Rolf Henniges
(German, born in June 1965 in the University-City of Göttingen) www.rolfhenniges.de
+ Transafrica. 43.230 Kilometer. Rolf has
education as an industrial-salesman, a dieselengine-mechanic and an editor Transafrica
from February 1989 till August 1990. His other three Africa-Tours 11.000 kms.
Route: Tunesia - Algeria - Niger - Burkina Faso - Ghana - Togo - Benin
- Central-Africa - Zaire - Rwanda - Burundi - Uganda - Kenya - Tansania - Malawi
- Mosambique - Botswana - Namibia - South-Africa
Purpose of travel: Always heading for adventure and fun. As an old moto-crossi he always looked at
most of rough roads and tracks.
The best: Deep mudded, 300 km long
track between Tansania to Malawi in rainy season. Also a rough and funny ride
on an old Honda CB 200 with piston-collaps from Göttingen to Genua (Italy) and
retour. (It was a funny story for motorcycle Magazine MOTORRAD in winter 98/99).
Reaching Capetown after 18 month of journey
The worst: Stone-throwing
children in Zaire.
Useful informations and TIPS for others: If
there is a wish and a deep will, every time it will be come real.
Earlier
Experiences of big Motorcycle-Tours: Rolf startet his bigger trips after he
hang up his moto-cross career in 1987. First he rode six weeks through Algeria.
Infectet by the spirit of the black continent, he startet his big trip a year
later and spent nearly two years travelling in several countries of Africa. Ending
up in September 1990 in Capetown. There he worked together with a guy from Australia
fixing engines. Surely he had the idea to visit him later.So he spent 27 months
between 1991 - 1997 in Australia. He rode 100.000 km. Nearly all Outback-tracksavelling.
Did trips to Asia as well cross all over Europe. Every time on bikes, mostly of
the Yamaha XT-Series. Sometimes he worked for food and petrol and travelled without
money as well. In Australia he was also digging for saphires as well as for opals.
While he was back in Germany he worked in several jobs. Beside his travels he
startet writing in 1990, sold the storys to many magazines and presented slideshows
through Germany. Since May 1999 he is redacteur of MOTORRAD, Europes biggest Motobike-Magazin,
working as a motorbike-tester and editor. The bike, with which he has done most
of all journeys, is now part of his living-room. The good old Yamaha XT 600 Ténéré
counts 241.000 km. After more than half a million km on a motorbike, now he is
riding pushbikes as his hobby and still working on his next book which will be
a novel and has nothing to do with bikes and journeys "Only women, drinks and
rock'n roll". One of his dreams of life is, to live on novels. After six years
in the past 20 years on the road, Rolf is still hungry for freedom: "There is
no guarantee, that I will be a strickly hard working man for the rest of my life".
He wants to travel as much as he can. "There's only one life. Live it". See more in this homepage Australia 1991 - 1997.
Book or publication: In 1996 his first book, named "Australia", was published in Motorbuch Verlag
Stuttgart. Meanwhile his has written some short-storys for Lappan-Verlag Oldenburg
and is one of the co-authors of the Travellbook "Best of 20 Years of Travel" from
the Motorbike-Photographer Klaus H. Daams which will be published in december
2001.
B.T. Rolf is an extensive mc-traveller being
able sometimes to travel with no money. He crossed Africa and rode extremely in
Australia by mc. Rolf has written the portrait about Bernd Tesch in 1996
in MOTORRAD and has been visiting the Mc-Meeting for World-Travellers many
years. Rolf is a co-author of SHELL´s BIKER BIBLE as well. Although Rolf
has sometimes a "special view" of Mr. Tesch and different opinons we always kept
a good contact with each other since a long time.
29.07.2013 Bitte um die besten drei Fotos als Scans.
02.10.2013 Erneute Bitte um die besten drei Fotos als Scans.
27.05.1989 bis 26.0519.1990
Thierry Barbier
+ Asia + Africa. Book: Evasions. Tibet-Inde-Afrique à Moto-rétro. Deutsch : Zurück von Tibet-Indien-Afrika per Moto. Reise-Führer. Reise-Bericht. (Europa). Afrika. Asien. 1990.
Für 20.170 km brauchte der Journalist und Abenteurer Thierry 746 Liter Benzin (entspricht 3,7 Liter / 100 km) für FF 4000 inklusive Reparaturen (entspricht ca. DM 1160). Die ganze Reise kostete FF 32.000 (entspricht DM 9280), wovon FF 11.000 für Transportkosten (entspricht DM 3190) waren. Am Schluß ein kleiner praktischer Ländereinblick.
Strecke : 27.05.1989 bis 26.05.90. 20.170 km. Tibet - rund um Indien - Nepal - Ladakh - Indien. Von Bombay per Schiff nach Kenia und Uganda - Ruanda - Zaire - Zentral-Afrika - Tchad - Niger - Algerien - Frankreich. 264 S. Paperback. 46 Farbfotos. 3 Streckenskizzen. Französisch.
Verlag: Editions les 7 vents. Versailles. Frankreich. 1990. ISBN 2-87716-027-0.
1991 Tel mit Thierry. Thierry schrieb mir, daß er noch eine Welt-Reise mit einem Traktor gemacht hat und darüber ein Buch und ein Video hat.
 
02.02.1990 - 24.04.1990
Bernd Tesch (*20.08.1941) und Alfred Reetz (* + +)
+ Africa West-East. Alfred und Bernd befahren mit 2 Motorrädern TESCH-YAMAHA XT 600 K die längste jemals unternommene Afrika-Durchquerung "West-Ost". 13.600 km durch 12 afrikanische Staaten.
Vom wirklich westlichsten Punkt im Norden von Dakar (Senegal) bis zur Insel Lamu (Kenia, 1990 wirklich östlichster erreichbarer Ort).
Mit 2 von "Yamaha" gestellten XT 600 hatten wir den Plan, die allergrößte Entfernung Afrikas "West- Ost" zu fahren.
Route: In Senegal starteten wir 100 m westlicher als die westlichste Landmasse in Dakar (Senegal, Club Mediteranee), fuhren 240 km am Strand nach Mauretanie. Die Grenzen waren geschlossen und deshalb schossen Grenzer auf uns am Strand. In Maureatainen wollte man uns kein Einreisevisum geben, weil die Grenze ja geschlossen war. Wir konnten ja gar nicht in Mauretanien sein.... In Mauretanien hatten wir auf 1000 km Sandsturm. Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroun, Tchad, Centrafrique, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya. Dort setzten wir mit dem Motorrad mit einer privaten Dschunke über zur Insel Lamu, denn die Fähre nahm keine Fahrzeuge zur fahrzeuglosen Insel mit.
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Es war die längste mir bekannte Motorrad-Reise West-Ost. Auf das private Gelände des Clubs Mediteranee im Senegal darf man normalerweise nicht. Auf der Insel Lamu im indischen Ozean sind keine KFZ (verboten). Die Fähre nimmt daher keine KFZ mit. Deshalb haben wir uns mit einer Dschunke "privat" übersetzen lassen. Wir haben uns von der Polizei einen Stempel geben lassen. Zwecks Dokumentation. Wenn "Henna" auf den Armen länger halten würde, hätte ich noch heute die schöne Tätowierung von damals dort...
13.-14.10.1990 Dia.Votrag auf 13.Auto-Fernreise- Treffen
24.10.1989
- 23.05.1991 and 05.04.1981 - 15.11.1981
Gaby and Rudi Rietzler (German)
+ Two times Trans-Africa. Gaby and Rudi crossed Africa two times by Motorcycle North-South.
In 1981 both rode solo with two YAMAHA XT 36.000 kms.
In 1989 - 91 they travelled
within 17 months with a Moto-Guzzi-Mille GT with sidecar Carell Enduro 80.000
kms through enormous 30 countries. See above 1981.
12.1989 - 02.1990
Hubert Steinhauser (German, 09.05.1964)
+
Tunisia. Algeria. Hubert rode with Yamaha XT 600 K without luggage
with his friend Wolfgang Bader by car 4 WD Lada Niva 15.000 kms.
Purpose of travel: Wolfgang Bader asked him to travel
with him into Sahara.
Route: Germany - Austria - Switerland - France
- by ship from Marseille to Africa (Tunisa (Tunis) - Algeria (Tozeur - Deb Deb
- Djanet - Tamanrasset - Ain Salah - El Golea - Ghardaia - Ouargla) - Tunisia
(Tunis) - by ship to Europe (France (Marseille) - Switzerland Austria - Germany).
Higjhlights: Full moon in the dunes of Algeria. Oasis. Petrified wood.
The worst: We lost orientation sometimes in the dunes
Earlier experiences: 1988 renting bikes in in Morocco (Agadir).
01.12.1989 - 28.01.1990
Kuik, Fred van (Netherland, 20.08.60) and Nout Beeker (Netherland, 10.03.60)
+ North > West-Africa. The physiotherapis
Fred and civil engeneer Arnout rode together from Tunis to Ouagadougou on two
XT-600 Tenere 1983 ca. 7.000 kms. Then two dutch friends flew to Ouagadougou and
they rode back via Niger (Agadez) - Algeria (In Guezzam - Tamanghasset). Nout
and Fred toke the plane to Moscow (in wintertime) and spend there some days before
going home with aeroflot to Bruxelles.
Route: Utrecht to Genua (motorcycles
in van) - by boat to Tunisia (Tunis) - Tunis - Tozeur - Algeria (El-Qued - Touggourt
- Ouargla - Hassi-Messaoud - In Amenas - Illizi - Djanet - Ideles - Tamanghasset
- Assekrem - Timiaouine - Tessalit) - Mali (Gao - Mopti) - Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
- by plane to Moscow - by plane to Belgium (Bruxelles) - Holland (Utrecht).
Purpose: enjoy holiday
The best: Assekrem sunset. Area around
Djanet. Friendly people of Mali. Trip from Tam to Tessalit.
The worst: Getting petrol mixed with water in Timiaouine.
Useful Tips: Take two
the same bikes.
Earlier experiences: 1992-1993 Marocco-Algeria-Libya-Algeria-Tunisia.
- 1996-1997 Kampala - Zaire - CAR - Camerun-Niger. -2001-2002 plan to visit Libya
or Algeria if Libya is not possible.
Will
be continued. Please send me your Mc-Travel-information as the block above.
Bye Bernd Tesch in Germany
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