When confronted with a daunting challenge and you have time to think, you would shy away if the risks and negative odds seem to increase quicker than the chances of success.

If the challenge is upon you before you have time to think, you have no choice but to push through. Then, thinking back on the risks and negative odds that you have overcome, success is so much more satisfactory.

Just by the way, I'll have you know that the flowers were so beautiful that a few hundred pics found their way onto the camera, which made selecting a few for this report very, very difficult. But, one tries...

Gavin and I went with Warren's first trip to the farm Mertenhof in the Biedouw Valley earlier in the year. Loved it, so when the call came to put names down for the same trip but in flower season, ours were pretty much first on the list.

Trip Report – Cederberg

This past weekend (10-12/12/2010) a friend of mine, Jan, on an 800GS, his wife, Annemie, in the backup Toyota Hilux and myself on my Dakar took to the Cederberg mountains for a little weekend getaway. Unfortunately my wife could not make it due to work requirements.

I've loved riding in the Cederberg since the 1st time I was there, which wasn't much more than a year ago... So any opportunity to do so with some friends is always grabbed with both hands.

BACKGROUND PHASE 1 It all started at Freak’s birthday bash with a comment by Hermanator that a visit to his relatives for lunch at the Docks might be a good idea. Freak immediately rushed off and acquired an attractive pillion candidate from a nearby table and Neil and I agreed that keeping the Sunday breakfast run tradition going would be a good call. PHASE 2 Neil did some debating and philosophising and then came up with a counter proposal to do “a bit of a longer trip” on dirt, and skip the meal that would require increasing the pre-load of his GS for the return trip.

Yet again another fantastically planned off-road trip. Andy & I were unexpectedly privileged to join the wonderful group of people Johann and Tanya Rossouw have brought together. As usual, there were a few new people, as some of the usuals could not join us - understandably, in this hectic time galloping on towards Christmas. Our group of 13 bikes & 18 people: 1200GSA - Johann & Tanya Rossouw (JR) 1200GS - HD Rossouw (HD) 1200GS - Ernst Bester 1150GS - Johan & Linda Burger 1150GS - Brendan Buurman 1150GS - Danie Malan (GeelKameel) 1150GSA - Ian Steyn 1150GSA - Andy Connell (Andyman)

Hier is 'n "Kyk-weer" herhaling van die Wuppertal Tripverslag, soos aangevra deur Charles. Wat 'n great trippie daai! sommer lus en stel ander trips uit en doen dit weer! Kyk ook na hierdie link om al die fotos en kommentare te sien. http://www.bmwmotorcycleclubcape.co.za/forum/Yabb2/YaBB.cgi?num=11615892... -------------------------------------------------------- Jeeptrack na Wuppertal Die Jeeptrack tussen Matjiesrivier en Wuppertal is 'n moet vir enige GS ryer. Sowat van variasie in pad toestand en soveel natuurskoon in een dosis sal jy baie ver soek om beter te kry. Drie van ons het 'n een-dag toer onderneem vanaf Bellville na Wuppertal en terug via Clanwilliam. Ons het ses-uur die oggend vertrek, op Ceres petrol volgemaak en koers gekies Noordwaards na die Sederberg. Die hele rit was netmooi 'n dagreis, ingesluit drie langerige stoppe plus 'n hele klomp kort foto-stoppe. Ons was terug in die Kaap 12 ure nadat ons vertrek het. Dus, dit kan gedoen word in 'n dag, sonder om te jaag. Mits jy VROEG begin, en geen skade of probleme oorkom nie. 'n Veiliger en baie sinvolle opsie is om eerder 'n twee-dag toer te doen en iewers in die Sederberge oor te slaap. Ons het Wuppertal bereik teen eenuur, Clanwilliam teen 3uur en Citrusdal teen 4uur.