Cape Town
Annual Toy Run
It’s that time of the year again where we as bikers get to take part in a very special event, the Toy Run.
See details here:
http://www.bmwmotorcycleclubcape.co.za/toy-run-2011-27-november-2011
Coffee Club Breakfast Run
This is not a club event, but rather part of an awareness campaign "ride for the environment'
Ride for the Environment is a fun rdie to help punch home the message for a cleaner environment and carbon footprint awareness.
Group ride on Sat 22 Oct begins at 09h30 at Parlaiment and follows a route through CT and the V&A ending at the Mouille Point lighthouse.
Club Meeting
Normal club meeting held at the Multi Motor Club clubhouse, Jan Burger Sports Ground, Parow North. These meetings take place at 20:00 on the last Tuesday of each month. (If a month has more than four weeks which could lead to five Tuesdays in that month, then the meeting is held on the last, ie 5th, Tuesday).
Club Lunch "Road" Ride
This is a "tar" ride, all welcome. NB FULLY BOOKED!!!
Following on the great success of this past weekends lunch ride to Eendekuil the Club has arranged another Sunday lunch ride for the 17th July.
Our destination is Franschoek but our route will take us via Gordons Bay, Kleinmond, Towards Hermanus, Caledon, Villiersdorp to Franschoek.
Lunch (during Bastille day celebrations) will be at the lovely Goederust Estate where a set menu will await us.
Lunch cost is R132.00PP including 10% mandatory service charge.
Ladies Self Defence Training
First solo trip - well almost (completed)
After weeks of scouring the web for suitable routes and countless hours spent tweaking the selected route on Mapsource - I wanted to find a route that avoided the N1, N2 and R62 yet was suitable for a "solo" ride - Adrienne and I finally set off on Friday morning enroute to Wilderness.
The day I misplaced my Comfort Zone (Mapsource file added)
Firstly, there are no pics for this ride report. Sorry. They just did not happen. But, if you are looking for an interesting morning route near Cape Town, read on…
My friend Johnny is not normal.
That is to say, he has abnormal bike-riding skills, which I guess comes with the territory if you have been riding bikes for a few decades, including successfully racing dirt bikes. For the record, he rides an Orange Beast with the most divine rumble when idling (I’m never close enough to hear it when it’s moving), but we won’t hold that against him.
BMW MCC Oudtshoorn outride - road ride 20 - 21 Feb '10
Just after a gorgeous, windless sunrise, 8 bikes (with 3 lady pillions) gathered at Plattekloof Engen. My first glimpse of our fellow riders was Neil, sitting atop a pile of braaiwood bags, reading the Saturday paper, seemingly oblivious to the world.
After a quick rider briefing, we set off down the N1 in blinding sunlight, diverting off at the R300, dodging taxis and concrete barriers, then onto the N2. We turned off the N2 at the Firlands turn-off for Gordon's Bay.
I went for a quickie with Tannie Sani, she klapped me and gave me a bloody nose!
A little before Christmas the urge came upon me, would it last, could I sustain it? The urge for a quiet trip, that is! Last year it came and went due to exhaustion of work.
Now as a fair few know, I am Bi, I swing both ways, bike riding-wise that is. Tar and dirt do it equally for me!!
Now, what with the 'Ladies Training' and the 'Club's Track day' and the 'Slightly faster breakfast' run, my masculine side was out balancing my feminine, so a bit of dirt was called for to re-balance!!
BMW MCC Intermediate GS ride (with pics): Overberg area
Turn left at the third bush
He had 19 takers, two being clever enough to ride pillion. (Neels and Annamarie piloted the back-up vehicle.)
From the Engen on the N2 near Somerset West, we vroomed up Sir Lowrys Pass, turning right onto the Highlands road just after the Peregrine Farmstall.
Our esteemed tour leader, wiggling the line ever so slightly
