Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

My first tour with the club (probably why I was volunteered as report writer!). The others were meeting for breakfast by the N2 and were due to pick me up in Hermanus at 08.45. They were 35mins late, without explanation, and it was only on the second evening when the straf-dops were being awarded that I discovered why; Tommie couldn’t find the N2! He joined us later in the day. Day 1 took us over the Tradouw Pass and through Meiringspoort to Prince Albert and the Swartberg Hotel. It was a beautiful first day, lekker sunshine and a welcoming swimming pool at the hotel.

On the weekend of 24-27 September, 4 friends set off on a 4-day trip that promised to comprise mainly of beautiful gravel highway. What we actually encountered was a very, very different story…

A club tour to Prince Albert for a long weekend.  Tar and dirt routes for various skill levels with full backup and ride leadership.

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.

"Drive on unpaved road." These are magical words when they appear at the top of your GPS screen, and in the trip that Gavin and I did last week from Cape Town to Prince Albert, this was pretty much all I saw for the majority of the day. Little did we know when we left Cape Town that our GPS has an evil sense of humour and that she sometimes has a rather inventive interpretation of 'unpaved road'.

21 March 2012

 Meet Michè

Last weekend, whilst idling my time away at the Buff, I had a choice... spend the day watching loads of people drink, get drunk, make idiots of themselves and bugger up their bikes, or disappear into the wild blue yonder and go adventuring. The latter won out.

Oudtshoorn Dual Ride : Advanced group : Geoff

The Burn Out

Bikes : 18

2010, Another year, another great weekend outing with YOUR Club : Come and join the fun, 3 rides to choose from, bring your partner with you!!!! Numbers are limited...........snooze you............you know what.. So many rides so little time............ In order to get 2010 off to a great start, Andy, Anne, Brian and I are arranging a "Dual" ride to Prince Albert over the weekend of 20th to 21st February 2010 sleeping in Oudtshoorn. The plan was to stay in Prince Albert however good value accommodation for a large group is not easy to find in this quaint little town. Brian's Messengers group will obviously be a "road" ride, Anne & Andy Connell have offered to take the "off road" beginners group and I will take the more experienced "dirties" group.

===Day 1: Cape Town – Bonnievale=== We set out late Monday afternoon for Bonnievale at 17h00. The weather was good…..that is no pumping cape doctor, “anything else is good in my book”, but once we hit the R60 to Robertson the cape doctor gave us a woes snot klap making it difficult to maintain 140km/h. We were packed reasonably light, only the absolute essentials for a one night camp out, no rain gear, a cell phone to use for any major repairs, and a basic supper of noodles with tinned tuna. (The rest of our meals were to be had on route.) Our first night was with friends on their wine farm on the Breede River. After a really good braai and good wine it was off to bed before many dusty back roads to tomorrows destination….Die Hel!