WC - Reccie

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Andy660

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We met at the Richwood Garage at 07h30 .

Lito
Wyneh
Crossed-up
Paramed
N[]vA
XT660

and Mark Hardy, who just came to say hi !

A nice size party for a reccie

We went to Perdeberg to a trail that Wayneh and I found on a previous ride.
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The two spoor is badly erroded and overgrown.
Wayneh took the lead and I swept.
Sweeping is a good place to be , cause nobody can see you when you fall.

Paramed & N[]vA right

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Lito & Crossed-up to the right

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The first section is steep with loose rocks and slippery moss , so no pics of the section.

This is the section once the road starts levelling out near the top.

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Occationally we had to stop so Wayneh could go ahead and see if we could get through the ditches , water or to see if the road actually existed

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We got to a section of this gorge that had a chain across it , so we had to go around through the bush.
Lito walked some of the bikes around the pole.

Paramed dissmounting !!  errmm  !!

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Falling !!

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Lito lending a hand

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We all pushed and walked the bikes up and around the pole/chain , and Crossed-up just rode that little TW200 up and around the pole.

From the left , N[]Va ,Crossed-up , Paramed , Lito  and Wayneh

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There were Protea`s everywhere

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Paramed !
What`s wrong boet ?

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Ready for the next obsticle , fence , gate closed

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We got to this steep road to the right which Wayneh made up with his KTM525
N[]vA made it up with some difficulty with his BMW X-Country.

Wayneh called down to leave the bikes and walk up , as he had somthing to show us.

And this is the emblim of a Cannon from The Dutch East India Company

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I am on the net doing some research into it.
Apparently The cannons were placed on mountain peaks from Cape Town to Swellendam and from Cape Town To Citrusdal as a warning system.
To let the Farmers know when the ships had arrived in the harbour, so they could bring their produce.

Myself , Lito , Paramed , N[]vA and Crossed-up

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Wayneh and his faithful KTM 525

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