Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

What do you get when you take a brave and intrepid ride leader - Oh Captain (& crème soda) my Captain! Add in a mob of disparate yet eager adventure riders, a more or less equal mix of 800's and 1200's and you have all the ingredients for a real live adventure. And so our brave explorers gathered bright and early one Friday morning for breakfast at the Winelands Wimpy to fortify themselves against the tribulations sure to follow.

Thanks once again to Wernich Stipp from Barons Volkswagen in Tokai for offering us the use of a fantastic Volkswagen Amarok, back up crew and fuel.

So folks, thanks to Barons, the price for accomodation and meals is all it is going to cost you for this fantastic weekend ride to Oudtshoorn.

The multitude of fantastic routes to use to get to Oudtshoorn and back has us in a bit of a spin. For the dirties there is the Swartberg Pass, Seweweekspoort, Rouxpos, and easily some of the most fantastic dirt roads in the Province.

So after 17 years together, countless camping trips and quite a few bike trips, you’d think I’d know the love of my life quite well.

Saturday morning, 05H00, alarm goes off and the usual question is asked still half asleep, “Morning Love, are you sure you want to go”. The usual answer is also received, “not really, but we’ve paid”. It’s an old Cederberg 4x4 joke we’ve been doing for years and we still do it every time we have to get up at an unusual hour. But once you’re up, dressed you really do begin to look forward to the weekend and the adventure ahead.

 Off to Geoff’s place to collect Noelene as promised and then high tail it to the meeting point at the BP garage at Klapmuts.

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Just one pic for now.. a memory for some, and a wake-up call for the others - get yourself a real bike and join us for the view

 

At the Annual Tour to Kleinplasie there were a number of raffle prizes after supper. The wife and I bought one raffle ticket. We won a gift voucher for the Dros – at Oudtshoorn. There was NO way I am driving all the way back to Oudtshoorn for a “lunch ticket”. Chris and Belinda Dunn won a weekend at Kleinplasie. After the prize giving I went over to Chris and Belinda to give them the meal voucher for when they did make use of their weekend at Kleinplasie. I was totally speechless when Belinda looked at me and indicated that their schedule would not allow them to come back, and she proceeded to give me the prize of a weekend at Kleinplasie. A few minutes later I had also received a Spur meal voucher and a voucher to go feed elephants.