Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

List of those attending: Rynet Jaco Buys Corné Kloppers Johan & Tracey Wayne & Joanne Chris Dunn Dale Edwards Hennie Botha Neil & Jane Steven (Cloud) Gunther Engelke

I'm in! Thanks Geoff :-) Corné Kloppers 0849130391 ckloppers@gmail.com

GR, Johan & Tracey = in. Wayne & Joanne = in. Johan de Jager Live the BMW lifestyle !!

I am in...Chris

Will a newbie like me survive this trip? Also, when you say Bainskloof, are you talking about the pass?

We'll take good care of you Cloud - we will work on those passes mate and before you know it you will be loving it...join us !! Johan de Jager Live the BMW lifestyle !!

Correct Cloud. Don't know your skills but there is no reason for you not to make it!! Let me know!.

Can you all feel the love in this room? I can feel it. Count me in!

I will be coming as well !!

ek sal vir julle bid..!

Quite technical...mmm...will I survive this one GR? Wat dink jy Japie? Cloud, not sure if I'm joining but if I do you can join me at the back when we ride Bainskloof. I'm the rider with the pink helmet waaaaaay at the back, crawling throught the bends :)

Is Jane on her own bike?

TvN - sien jou daar, jy sal dit maak, ons sal mooi na jou kyk. Spider -no Jane is with Neil as pillion. Johan de Jager Live the BMW lifestyle !!

Hi Geoff I will join you guys, Winston a.k.a tonyt "There is just something about riding a motorcycle, something I can't explain, but that it's just so good for one's soul... " Ewan Mcgregor - 2007

Dankie Japie, ek weet julle sal! Laat ek maar sien of ek windgat raak teen Vrydag.

Have about 15 bikes for this ride. I would like to suggest that you arrive earlier at the meeting place and have a Wimpey breakfast before departure. Tanya you could meet us on the N7 at the top of the hill outside Malmsbury to save you the trip to the meeting spot. If you are there from 0715 you should be fine.

Geoff, make that 16, Monique and I are in!!

Can we make that 17 Bikes? Alan

See you there Alan. Please send me your e mail address. russell@aroma.co.za

Geoff, I am also in if you haven't counted me already - JdJ said he told you I would be there. I can help with sweeping or whatever task will result in my riding more, harder or technical. Looks like you will be dealing with a mob of all skill levels. Oh, yes, if anybody has a pillion and is worried about a technical section, I will happily ferry the pillion for them. Ask Benna. regards Charles

Excellent, I hate riding the bends all by myself at my usual snail's pace. The company would be welcome. Actually the only reason Bainskloof freaks me out, is cause of the ride during Nelson's Creek. I couldn't see the riders in front of me, and had the horrible feeling i was holding up the rest of the pack. But the truth is I don't think anybody actually noticed.

The golden rule about a trip like this is that it never is a race....everyone on their own time, no rush. I assure you that you will regret not going !! Johan de Jager Live the BMW lifestyle !!

Geoff - you already have my address? I've resent it anyhow. Regards Alan

But I am going! I will see you all bright eyed and bushy tailed, and ready for a bit of an adventure. Yeeehah!

I don't know about the bright eyed and bushy tailed... I think the sheep are best left in Oz, but I'll be there too :)

Hi Geoff Ek gaan saam. Dankie vir die reelings. Niel = solo

Hi Geoff, Do my best to make it ............. Regards, Mel

Thanks Geoff, That was great fun even though it was raining... and I fell over ..... twice :P

Yes, Thanks Geoff and everyone else. It was great fun and will definitely do it again. In the end, a nice day almost spoiled by the idiot at the Ceres fuel station. "There is just something about riding a motorcycle, something I can't explain, but that it's just so good for one's soul... " Ewan Mcgregor - 2007

Thanx to everyone - especially Geoff leading and John sweeping.

A really nice ride with a bit of comedy at the garage with the help of Papsak Entertainment. Thanks to ALL!

Thanks to all for braving the elements on this hot, cold, wet, windy day ride. Really appreciate you all getting out from behind your partners back at mossie poep to spend the day with your fellow Club members. I am starting a collection to purchase "Rocket Renette" a snorkel for her bike............any takers?? I had a really great ride.

Ja, the ride was everything I had hoped it would be - thanks for organizing and leading it Geoff.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: I rode behind Vernon and Monique for quite some distance and they handled the tricky terrain with aplomb. Well done you two! I look forward to more trips with you.

Thanks Geoff, I'm sure we all had loads of fun. Some left with a bruise or two, but every body had a great safe trip. Its a pity it rained, I was looking at the scenery after every stop and visor cleaning session. I probably took less than 1km to cover it with dust/rainy mud, so much so that I was having to concentrate to see the road when the drizzle came. Summary: Great day, great people, great route, bike in one piece and I'm not too sore. P.S. I did not come off...

I concur with Daniel.. was a really awesome ride... Thank you to everybody! Corné Kloppers 0849130391 ckloppers@gmail.com

I only took one or two pictures this time ;-( Can everybody perhaps email me their pictures and I will upload it on my picture website? If you want ;-) http://corne.ygm.co.za Or perhaps you can write a trip report with your pictures :-) Corné Kloppers 0849130391 ckloppers@gmail.com

Thanks to John and the other gent (sorry - the name escapes me) who were sweeping up the hill when I decided to rest up in one of the corners - you guys helped tremendously (only damage to speak of is a cracked rear flicker lens at R104). That stint in Ceres was super *fun* though... but let's be fair - we were in his way - and he was probably too drunk to find the reverse gear...

Thanks to Geoff for the super organising of the trip. The saamie was lekker, gave us enough strength to tackle the cold ( min. 9 centigrades between Oasis and Gydo Pass ) and the desert-highway. Thanks as well to the sweeper John and for his spectacular ride through the sands of Eselbank !! Looking forward to the next ride, may be some riders should take swimming gear, or even diving gear, shame.

I was more concerned that he might pull out a gun! This is South Africa we talking about... Thank goodness nothing happened. Corné Kloppers 0849130391 ckloppers@gmail.com

a HUGE thank you to everybody on the ride yesterday from Monique and myself, for your patience with us. Hope we didn't hold you up too much! :) And then a special thanks to Geoff for all his advice, assistance, support and words of encouragement and a great ride! The same goes for Johan & Tracey who helped us tremendously! And also a word of thanks to Corné & Charles for their support and encouragement as well. It can only get better! Hope to see you all on a ride soon again. Thanks guys!!!

Geoff - Thank you for an amazing ride yesterday! Johan and I really enjoyed it, to think we weren't going to go because it was raining! Great ride, scenery and some nice challenges - and yes Johan made me stand the WHOLE way! Even in Bain's Kloof on the way home. Hennie - clearly those chaps at the garage could NOT count! Tracey "Pillions are the brains behind the operation"

So, please fill us in - what really happened at the garage?

The short version Jaco is as follows: As we came into Ceres from the Op die Berg side we all pulled into the first garage on the LHS. Some for petrol all for air. There is only one air pipe so it got a bit crowded in the lane where the pipe was. A local drunk broer with 3 or 4 extremely drunk mates pulled into the bowser behind the bikes. After having put in 25c petrol instead of just reversing out of the lane and moving off he stands on his hooter and tells us in his frightfully English accent to move our bikes. With hooter blaring and signs being shown through the windscreen at us and the mates in the back shouting out of the windows about our mothers private parts we don't move. Had he have just asked there would have been no issue. Now us dutchman don't take kindly to being hooted at for no apparent reason (because had he asked we would have moved), having signs shown at us and more importantly although the Broers don't mind insulting each others mothers we get enraged by it. So a stand off ensued, 5 against 15 very angry Club members. The most impressed Club member having recently been robbed at gunpoint. Must confess I was expecting a massacre. However after a few minutes of..............shall I say "tense stand off", in the true tradition of the "Club", we let the guys through! It was a very close call and could have gone either way. However the "Club" members displayed extreme calmness in the face of this uncalled for confrontation. I am proud of each on of them!

EXTREMELY proud of the members and those non members (if there were any) !! Johan de Jager Live the BMW lifestyle !!

I'm a non member (currently), but you guys have made me feel so much part of the family that it doesn't even feel like it! Thanks again for an awesome trip to all of you! Regards Alan

Wow, it certainly sounds like you guys had fun. I felt like a bit of drowned rate when I met you all at the 1 Stop. My rain kit is obviously useless. On the half hour trip back home, even my supposedly waterproof boots let water in. By the time I got home, the only part of me that was dry was the very top of my head, even the sides of my helmet were soaked.

Shame Steve... You clearly went the wrong way :-) When we left the 1 Stop the weather cleared out and it was an awesome ride... we had some drizzle but not rain like you described... sorry you missed it! Next time ;-) Corné Kloppers 0849130391 ckloppers@gmail.com

I don't have rain gear and although I got a little wet - it was nothing near what you suffered - you should have tagged along - the very fresh air would of had you dry by the time you got home ;)

Fortunately Malletjie and myself had the common sense to go to the Engin on the good side of town. Just for your information there is an Engin and shell right opposite each other there and it would have been faster to split into two groups there and inflate and refuel. P.S. Sorry John, I did not mean to leave you out. Thanks a mill for the doing the hard work at the back. P.P.S. My gear and bike is filthy and Geoff's looks like its in showroom condition, next time he sweeps and someone else can lead.(just kidding)