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Club off-tar ride into the Overberg Sunday 6^th December

BMW Motorrad Club Cape presents the exciting Overberg off-tar ride

Date  : Sunday 6^th December 2015

START Point : BP Quick stop, N2, Somerset West (see dropped pin)

TIME: 07H30, it is summer, we can start earlier.

Club members  : no cost

Non club member: invitational, so come along no cost

Bring plenty of water, refuel and ride ready before we brief at 07H40

Fuel & lunch for your own account

We ride 34km  on tar in one group, and split into two groups on the gravel at Houwhoek.

This is not a beginners ride. The pace and terrain is not conducive to raw beginners.

Ride at your own speed we will wait at turns and you will also have stops to rest, photo, pee.

We will not ride at reckless speeds.

The route takes us on tar 34 km on N2 to Houwhoek pass and then deviate onto gravel.

Gravel safety briefing and setting up bike- tyres, engine mapping, ABS, traction control for the ride. No instruction

Onto the old pass to Botrivier, then over the N2 to the network of gravel roads that eventually brings us to near Elm, and good gravel roads to Gansbaai, then on to Stanford, Clarence Drive then home.

These are good gravel roads.

We have to negotiate passage with the rock monster in the Houwhoek pass, and the sand monster in the Houwhoek pass and Sandy’s Glen.

As well as having to negotiate the awesome steep downhill monster at Anatolian se Bult. (there is a chicken run detour)

Don’t worry, if it seems daunting when you arrive, one of the experienced crew will take your bike down.

Pillions have done this ride on every trip before. Many for the second and third time.

We will stop in shady places regularly to talk shit, take photos and for ladies to go behind a bush in private.

You are welcome to invite a friend irrespective of bike marque.

Bookings online, closing off at twenty. We will split into two groups to avoid the feel of crowding.

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Total distance  ±324km