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Autum Spirit of the Adventurer two-nighter gravel ride

BMWMCC is going on a two-nighter- overland gravel route ride

14^th and 15^th May

Departing Friday late afternoon 13th from Donford Motorrad Stellenbosch and returning on Sunday.

 

This is at a secret venue, you will never have visited before but will need to visit again and again.

Not just because it is only  90 kilometers from Donford, Stellenbosch, or because it is so high you can see tomorrow coming, but because it is set in the isolated quiet and beauty of the Overberg district.

 

 

Get off work early.

Get to Donford by 16H30 on Friday the 13th.

We brief at 17H00 and we ride at 17H30.

We will ride irrespective of the weather. No rain forecast in our sector.

 

places  : 20 places

 

CONVENOR: ANDY CONNELL

 

BOOKING  : online BOOKING FORM 

 

 

Members can expect to pay R575 per person- covers both nights

Non members pay R75 more = R 650.oo

 

Cost includes

- two nights accommodation, (Bedding and bath towel included)

- Friday and Saturday dinner

- Saturday and Sunday Breakfast.

- back up vehicle.

 

Payments made to the Club account

First National Bank

Branch  : Long Street, code 201709

Acc No: 50060098602

Reference : name +2 nighter

 

Lunches and fuel for you own account

 

 

Two dormitory style rooms.

All bedding and bath towels provided.

Watersports and plenty lawn sports as well.

 

40 seater fire pit for the evening get together.

Plenty space and places for ‘Me time’.

Connectivity on site at Signal Hill and the dam.

 

Bring rain suite, swimming towel, binoculars, swimming trunks,

Dress for cape weather

 

 

Gravel riding is what adventure biking is all about, exploring places close to Cape Town that beckon you back for more.

And that’s just what we have in store for you.

Plenty stops to adjust gear & bikes as needed to make your ride more comfortable and photograph the awesome scenery.

 

Saturday 14^th May (400km) will see us riding some of the most awesome farm roads and back roads even veterans will say they have not yet ridden. We’ll lunch at the boathouse on the Breede river at Malagas.

70% of the ride on gravel roads

30% of the ride on good old familiar tar roads.

If you have recently done the off-road training, this is a must ride event.

This ride is suited to riders new to gravel roads and is pillion friendly.

Back home at base by 16H30.

 

You will miss the following sport fixtures: so set you recorders get your mate to set her PVR.

Super Rugby

 

MotoGP

No MotoGP on this weekend

 

F1

You will miss the 14h00 live screening of the Spanish F1 GP in Barcelona

 

Sunday 15^th May  (182,5km)

We leave at 09H30 for an awesome ride over private farm roads, through locked gates and awesome mountain pass, not even Trigve Roberts has a name for or has written about.

 

Top up, say goodbyes in Botriver and then run for home.