We went for a training ride

The boys went for a ride to Piketburg for lunch.

We all met up outside Antony’s house at 8:15, Harold Arrived on the Vuka this could only mean 3 things ...1. His bike would not start because of lack of use, ...2. He had a hangover and would not be capable of riding, ...or 3. the dreaded flu that had been doing the rounds had kicked in, it turned out to be the latter and harry had just come to wish us  safe travels (Thanks harry)J.

we then proceeded to Langebaanweg to meet up with Andy, who we met on the road because he forgot to put fuel in the night before, some excuse of his jerry can being a bit small, Andy, the jerry can takes 5 l of fuel and your bike tank takes 10l of fuel do the sum :)

After meeting Andy we proceeded past the Air force base and through  Sheep paddocks towards the Moorreesburg, Veldriff road, from there we ran a little rail way service road towards some farm area., by this time Tony had found that old groove again and was riding his bike as though he had never stopped some 30 years ago,

We proceeded on to Bitterwater and then up the jeep track towards Piketburg, after dodging some of the

local population that had taken the “spirit” of Easter a bit far, and had passed out on the side of the road.

We road down the tar pass (very nice road with some great 90deg corners into Piketburg where we stopped for lunch,

From here we did some “geotracking with Ant leading the way” (“geotracking” will now be the term used by this group when we get lost), Andy and Greg decided that all this “Geotracking” was a bit time consuming  and they headed for home before their pink slips were revoked. Greg on the Tar and Andy on the dirt.

By this time it was just Antony, Tony and yours truly that were still out there playing in the dirt,

Ant eventually found his way and we headed up some familiar roads on our way back to Langebaan,

We stopped at the turn off toward s the Sheep paddocks for a pee break and whilst doing our business another biker was seen coming our way from a distance, It turned out to be Andy who had been doing some “geotracking” of his own and had done some 90 Km to our 50 Km, In other words he had got hopelessly lost and it took some time to find his way.

Any way he stopped for some encouragement and directions and then headed on his way home, we found some more interesting roads, I went and had a closer look at a ditch at the side of the road due to a laps in concentration, and we did some field ploughing so as not to spook a horse and her foal.

Tony had an incident with a tortoise that spooked him in to nearly becoming a train driver,

We hit the rain on the Moorreesburg Veldriff road had it all the way back to langebaan,

I good days ride, fun was had by all and once again we got lost. (Sorry I mean we did some “Geotracked”)

Thanks Boys see you on the road next time.