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Mountain Biking through the Mashatu Game Reserve

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Mountain Biking through the Mashatu Game Reserve

Darkness was creeping in, and with it the first traces of fear. The opening stage in the tour was only about 20 km long, but with less than an hour of daylight before the big cats would get active, everyone knew they needed to hurry up. Despite precautions like thorn-proof green slime for their wheels, yellow-flowered devil thorns ensured the riders were as plagued by flat tyres as they were by mosquitoes – and this was no time for a hold-up.

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