Archive of BMW Motorrad Club Cape (2006 - 2019)

Day 1 : to Graaff Reinet

We meet at 5:30 am at the Winelands 1-Stop for breakfast.  It is an appropriate end to a week of last-minute arrangements: new tyre (knobblies mandatory for this trip), on-the-road snacks, traveling cash, and packing for an extended trip to a region where temperatures can range between -5 and 30+.

Over Easter, club member Noeline T went to play in Lesotho for some 9 days. The bikes were trailered up to Bethulie, and the car & trailer was left there while four of them went to play with some great mud, water, ice, gravel, tar, donkeys, sheep - even other humans, when they met up with Geoff's group near Rhodes

Read her great trip report here. Awesome pics!

 

A little before Christmas the urge came upon me, would it last, could I sustain it? The urge for a quiet trip, that is! Last year it came and went due to exhaustion of work.

Now as a fair few know, I am Bi, I swing both ways, bike riding-wise that is. Tar and dirt do it equally for me!!

Now, what with the 'Ladies Training' and the 'Club's Track day' and the 'Slightly faster breakfast' run, my masculine side was out balancing my feminine, so a bit of dirt was called for to re-balance!!

After much pre trip planning we had all the fine details for a sucessful trip and everything seemed to go according to plan. We plotted the route after speaking to the guys Wayne Haylett, Cobus Botha, Hendro Scholts (5 Capped springbok), Niel Duplessis (Coach for the Cheetas.) and myself Russ Rathbone ROUTE: Day1: Packing and loading Bikes · Bloemfontein After a long trip by car we arrived in Bloem exhausted

Hi from Gauteng You guys in CPT must remember that although far KZN, Gauteng en Mpumalanga offers a lot for all skill types. Myself and 4 friends did the Sani Pass and Lesotho over the weekend. We are all above 50 with one 60 year old and we mostly do weekend breakfast runs and sometimes some offroad. We consider ourselves "roadies" but with dirtroad aspirations. Between us were 3 x 1150GS's, 1 x 1200GS Adv and 1 x Dakar Just a short review. The trip started on Friday at 06h00 east of Pta and the route went via Standerton, Warden, unto N3 over van Reenen past Mooirivier to Nottingham Road. Appr. 600km's