Meet Hubert Kriegel

Just when you think you are a pretty hard core adventurer, heading up one of the highest road passes in Africa after days of rain has turned the surface into mud, you meet this guy coming down the other way – riding his Ural in an old ski jacket, no socks, and deck shoes in crazy red glasses and an open face helmet that looked like it pre-dated internal combustion.

Frenchman, Hubert Kriegel chucked it all in and took off in 2005 on his motorbike from his job in New York – originally on a KTM and now a Ural. Across the USA, up to the Ice Road in Alaska, down to Ushuaia, around Europe, months in Mongolia, and the length and breadth of Africa. Now he is heading to Cape Town to get a boat to India and onwards.

He said that Africa was too restrictive for his sense of freedom and adventure “customs officials let you in and all they want is for you to get out” of their country.

Checkout his story “Ten Years on the Road! Sidecar-ing the world horizontally and vertically”. www.thetimelessride.com