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I saw Malgat's trip to Rooiberg and decided it would be nice to go check it out and possibly find their names as they seemed to have lost it there on the recce :biggrin:
Imagine my suprise when I saw that my fearless bike club, The Pta BMW M/Cycle Club was planning to go there for our first trip of the year, so seeing that I had no idea where Rooiberg was, and my Mapsource was returning several possible Rooiberge, I decided to join the club. Yea I know big groups give me clostorfobia, but I decided to live with my fears for the day.
Yes, it's summer and it's the rainy season, so in all likelyhood my second pet hate was also going to surface - riding muddy roads.
We met at Shell Atturbury early morning and set off towards Roodeplaat dam and eventually Walmansthal
The group before departure - a really big group
About 7 km's before Walmansthal, someone has decided to establish a game reserve, but fortunately for us the trip organizer had arranged for us to go through as a group at low speed:
Waiting for the rest of the group
Nice plate
We also had Valentino on the ride
Stopping to deflate tyres and switch off ABS
Entrance to the game reserve
....... where they apparently sport the Big 5 :thumleft:
Initially the road was good, but this changed soon
Smokebreak before the fun started
Then we hit a very bad section
.... where the heavy GS had a mind of it's own
One of many spills
Fortunately many helping hands - Gonedown deciding to drop it while all cameras were on him ;D
Valentino smiling while riding the mud
Lotsa mud
......not for the faint hearted
Afterwards many were sporting some brown coloured ATTGATT
Taking a break after wrestling the mud
Our destination
Excalibur sporing his latest t-shirt - with no Zwa de Vi spills ;D
Must have seen this before
We were in time to watch SA bowl out the Aussies for 182
Final destination:
Knopkop looking good nexto a sign advertising God's nectar :thumleft:
Afterbreakfast lunch we hit the road to Upperdeck to meet with some other mates and have quite a few sharpies.
Dozi paid a surpise visit and sang Ooh Ryperd amongst othe rthings, so soon we were having moerse lekker fun. Sorry no picks - was a bit under the weather
Yes gauteng and Limpopo province is wet, but if you're cautious, you can come away unscated :ricky:
Yu have one live, live it :3some:
Imagine my suprise when I saw that my fearless bike club, The Pta BMW M/Cycle Club was planning to go there for our first trip of the year, so seeing that I had no idea where Rooiberg was, and my Mapsource was returning several possible Rooiberge, I decided to join the club. Yea I know big groups give me clostorfobia, but I decided to live with my fears for the day.
Yes, it's summer and it's the rainy season, so in all likelyhood my second pet hate was also going to surface - riding muddy roads.
We met at Shell Atturbury early morning and set off towards Roodeplaat dam and eventually Walmansthal
The group before departure - a really big group
About 7 km's before Walmansthal, someone has decided to establish a game reserve, but fortunately for us the trip organizer had arranged for us to go through as a group at low speed:
Waiting for the rest of the group
Nice plate
We also had Valentino on the ride
Stopping to deflate tyres and switch off ABS
Entrance to the game reserve
....... where they apparently sport the Big 5 :thumleft:
Initially the road was good, but this changed soon
Smokebreak before the fun started
Then we hit a very bad section
.... where the heavy GS had a mind of it's own
One of many spills
Fortunately many helping hands - Gonedown deciding to drop it while all cameras were on him ;D
Valentino smiling while riding the mud
Lotsa mud
......not for the faint hearted
Afterwards many were sporting some brown coloured ATTGATT
Taking a break after wrestling the mud
Our destination
Excalibur sporing his latest t-shirt - with no Zwa de Vi spills ;D
Must have seen this before
We were in time to watch SA bowl out the Aussies for 182
Final destination:
Knopkop looking good nexto a sign advertising God's nectar :thumleft:
After
Dozi paid a surpise visit and sang Ooh Ryperd amongst othe rthings, so soon we were having moerse lekker fun. Sorry no picks - was a bit under the weather
Yes gauteng and Limpopo province is wet, but if you're cautious, you can come away unscated :ricky:
Yu have one live, live it :3some:
