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Why do we ride? Why do we breathe?

As they say, I am the one who has the guts, the stupid one, the third wheel…I am the pillion also known as Paparazzi.

Myself and Jani received a short notice invite to go and visit friends in Ceres the past weekend. It didn't take a lot of persuasion for us to quickly pack some clothes, to hook the panniers onto the GS and for me to twist the throttle in any given direction.

On Sunday 07 May there will be a Club breakfast ride to Ceres. 

The route will be Stellenbosch, Helshoogte Pass, Du Toits Kloof Pass, Slanghoek, Ceres

We will leave the Engen Garage in Plattekloof at 08:30 am.

See you on Sunday

 10 PASSES – 1 DAY CIRCUS

we are a group of friends that does short breakfast runs on Sunday mornings, we are the Old Timers...still sparking after all these years.

We started our trip this morning 7:00 with one rule…you are responsible for the rider behind you

We decided on an extended breakfast run for a change, not having an idea what we let ourselves in for, we even made t-shits for the trip. Let’s do a 10 passes trip they said, it will be fun they said. If only we knew.

To join this ride/outing herewith the necessary details:

Meeting place: ENGEN Plattekloof parking area, Plattekloof Village (bathrooms next to Greens Restaurant open to the public)

Meeting time: 07:30 to leave 08:00

Please be fuelled up and ready to leave by 08:00

Your ride leader: Neels Wilken 

Terrain: ALL TAR - Pillion friendly

Breakfast Venue:  Winterberg Inn, Wolseley

Breakfast will be 1 of 2 choices:

Hi All,

As previously said, please forgive my spelling and tenses. I grew up in the Kalahari where we started crying and went into hiding when the Engelse came to visit us. Charles, please help us Afrikaanse ouens with an English spell and grammar check on this forum. I want to run away when I must write something on the forum.

Ag wat, let me try.

We had a nice all tar trip over the past weekend. 22-24/02/2013.

I hope that those on the trip post some pictures.

This was the first off road day ride for 2013 and judging by the amount of names on the list it was going to be very popular as well.

At 35 names I stopped counting as I was sure that there would be lots of cancellations, as there often are. I was notified of some cancellations and we finally ended with 30 bikes on the Ride.

I had changed the departure time to enable us to enjoy our lunch (snacks) and a swim on a farm in the Ladismith district.

Meet at the usual place on Plattekloof road to depart at 07:30am.

I  just love April. Aren't all those public holidays great? The first three months of 2012 had been a bit hectic work-wise, so Gavin and I worked out a really great bribe to get my mom to come and look after the dogs for a few days while we headed out of town, looking for great coffee shops in faraway places.

We left Cape Town on Easter Monday, after our by-now-customary "start of trip" coffee at our favourite local coffee shop, Starlings. Over Bain's Kloof to Ceres; the stresses of the past three months falling away with every km on the bike.