Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

Thursday is a public holiday, so no excuses for going out on a "school night". We have had quite a few day rides, but before the winter arrives and the warmth of your homes conflicts with your need to ride, we have decided to arrange an evening ride.

There will be 2x amazing rides arranged with the same destination in Botrivier, so you can have your choice of an off-road or tar ride. Routes back home will be by Tar.

Meet at Donford Stellenbosch at 18:30 for 19:00 departure.
Ride open to all makes of bikes.

A breakfast run to Houwhoek Inn in Bot River led by Jeremy Martin.

Meet at the Engen Plattekloof, for the northern suburbs for an 08h00 departure. Everything you need to know will be discussed at the meeting point. The map to the meeting point and other information on what to bring is at these links:

Initiated & coordinated by Rynet, this was to be a ladies-only ride. She also managed to persuade me to lead the ride - although I'm still wondering how she managed to do this!! :) She also asked Peter O'Hanlon to be sweeper. He was more than willing! ===Riders=== Rynet - 1200GS Tanya van Niekerk - 1200GS Isabeau Wilson - F650Twin Diana de Klerk - F650GS Tiara - F650GS Peter O'Hanlon - F650Dakar (with a broom) Anne Connell - F650GS Frances Minicki - F650GS (rode with us to the start and had to turn back due to back problems) Sandi Langton - backup bakkie The 1st group met earlyish at the Plattekloof Engen. After a quick briefing from Rynet, they were about to depart, when they realised they'd lost Tiara, who materialised again after she'd found the correct flavour of coffee!!! Um, we later found out that Tiara has very particular tastes when it comes to food and beverage...

Beginner’s Trip 1 July 2007 After much planning and discussion, the beginner’s off-road trip finally began on Sunday 1 July (original plan was 24 June – postponed due to terrible weather) The numbers were down from 10 to 7 riders, and in the end there were 4 beginner bikers and Geoff with Nelmarie riding pillion. Terrible weather the day before made the other 3 riders chicken out. Guess what – we had SUPER weather, although slightly on the cold side to begin with. The 4 beginners were Tanya, Jan, myself on F650GS bikes, and Dawie on his 1200GS. We thawed out with some coffee at the Peregrine, which also did nothing to calm our beginner nerves. After quite a long briefing with some good tips and tricks, we were finally off at 10am down the Viljoenshoop Road. Some of the tips and warnings made some of us even more nervous. I’d been down that road a few years back in the Landy, and we had to 4x4 our way through some of its slote, so I was worried…..