The "roof" starts
 

Roof of Africa starts today guys.

Go Chris Birch !! NZ FTW
defending champion, and my riding coach...:P

Chris will kill 'em again. I know Chris and I know the Saffies.

What a shambles. No communication, most of the riders getting lost in the mountains and being disqualified because of bad marking. All in all a cock-up of note (one of the reasons I left SA).

Last I heard was that Chris had won again.

16:20 - On corrected times the official winners of the 2009 Roof of Africa are:
Chris Birch (New Zealand) on a KTM
Rory Mead (New Zealand) on a Yamaha
Jade Gutzeit (South Africa) on a BMW

Chris Birch will be claimed as an Aussie now :p . Well done and congrats to him :)

Yeah, just like Stefan. :D

You haven't heard the last of this years roof. The mob in SA are really pissed about it.

Here in NZ, we havent heard the start of it, nothing on any sort of mainstream media coverage, but yknow, there was a rugby game on. :mad:

Well, the saffies are trying to forget losing to IRELAND! So they're having a good bitch about the roof organisation.

In Aus we're trying to forget winning the test against the West Indies 4th team.:p

http://www.ktm.com/KTM-News.223.0.ht...ash=cf41db821c

Chris won by a record 2 hours 13 minutes