Western Cape

In Dec 2010, 5 adventure riders - James, Justin ,Wayne, Clayton and Andyman took off on the MIDDELPOS DASH.

An overnighter, camping at Oasis.

What a special ride.

 

Sunday 28^th February 2010.

What a way to end a month!!

I was priveleged tolead the 2^nd group of 14 bikes from the Winelands Engen 1 Stop to the Cedarburg Oasis and home.

Sometimes you have a ride where everything just slots in & ‘clicks’.

This was one of them.

10 of the 14 riders were new to me and we’ve note ridden together before.

Our usual service crew was AWOL – and will be on orders on Monday, but hoofseun managed to get a wonderful service team together – Megan managing the pilot Nolene and her co-pilot Di.

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The format of this ride is to do as many mountain passes as we can fit in over one weekend with each group doing there own route. Breakfast and lunch will be enjoyed on route. We all eat at the same restaurant in Oudtshoorn. Please note that there will be 2 groups and possibly even 3. The groups will be as follows : Group 1 led by Brian : The "sedate" group. Group 2 led by Geoff : The less sedate, slightly faster group. Possible group 3 depending on demand, led by Anne Connell (to be confirmed) : The beginners/novice riders with less passes to cover and the slowest group. A

It was a rainy miserable day on the public holiday of the 1st May 2009 at 6am to meet a CRAZY bunch of high adventure seekers at the Engen one stop on the N7. Giz and I had bike problems which delayed us in joining the group but later that arvie joined up in Vanrhynsdorp after they had finished lunch. Only once we fell in, did we start relaxing and enjoying the outing. Geoff informs me there were 19 bikes, three pillions and with Abie and his son John totaled 25 people at Jurg se Kaia. This is the picture of the wild, wild west ......................coast tour of May 2009: Its always always about the people

The trip planned for Sept 2008 and postponed due to our son managing to impregnate our daughter-in-law and granny-to-be needing to visit and talk babies (baby Ryan was born yesterday 20 Apr), eventually came to fruition on 9 March this year. Pity one cannot plan the weather since a large part of the trip was unfortunately spoilt by it. It was a beautiful windless morning with an unusual sunrise. Sunrise Our partners in crime on the second bike are from Sedgefield and since they had not experienced Tradouw or the Country Pumpkin, we met up at Buffeljags BP filling station

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OUTREACH WILD COAST 2008 Led into the Dwesa Nature Reserve by Geoff Russell and his merry men and women to do a deed that I think was quite special and needs to be mentioned as one story with in another. This good will deed made Giz,I and I'm certain all the others in our group to experience that nice fuzzy feeling inside your tummy when you do something good for your fellow mankind. At the initial briefing at Geoff's home he informed us that the last time he was in the Dwesa Nature Reserve he was guided through the nature reserve by a delightful young local man who was dressed in civilian clothes.It was then and there that Geoff decided to do the following.

Our weekend trip on the GS’s On Saturday 12th April, we woke early for a lazy weekend at home. But a few hours later, after the umpteenth BMW passed my house- by God there are now very many BM’s passing my house all day- my palms began to itch so Annie n I packed our bikes for an overnight out in the cuds and of we went……. I just spent a week on a business trip in the North and was travelled out totally. But as my bum left the saddle and the wind vented through my jacket I realised it was the hire car that had tired me. Energy filled my body as we glided out of Gordon’s Bay following the front wheel. It took us to GK’s pad who had Brendan with him fitting a shock to his GS, so no go there and we continued out of town…….towards Stellenbosch.