Delgado Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 A huge well done to all the cyclists who made it down for the memorial ride this morning. It was a fantastic turnout and I estimated at least 2500 riders judging by the length and width of the bunch. A huge word of thanks to IanJ, Muxman, Chunky and all the others involved whose names I don't know. Your efforts were rewarded with a stunning tribute to our fallen friends and the organisation was top shelf. A huge thanks must go to all our "motorised" 2 wheel friends and the cops who made it down. It'a amazing what can be achieved when we as a cycling community pull togethor!!!
WorcesterWheelers Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Myself, girlfrien & Fatty (or "Grootseun") have flown up for THE FAST ONE, and were keen to get involved with this ride then too. What we experienced this morning, has already made the trip worthwile for me, regardless of how tomorrows tandem ride goes. On behalf of us few "Capies" well done to ALL. (Organisers, marshalls, motorised backup, traffic and of course all the riders who participated) Lets hope there will be a good spinn of from this wonderfull effort. Regards"Worcester Wheelers" P.S. Somebody PLEASE post us a few nice pictures
David #7 Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 It was great to see so many people make the effort this morning. Thaks to everybody that was involved in organizing this mornings ride.
IanJ Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 The bunch went way back over the hill Coming back from Vereeniging Road More to follow later.
IanJ Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Difficult to see but the road is full of cyclists back to the horizonizon Notice how well everyone was behaving
Man with no name Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 When i left home this morning, I hoped and prayed that there will be a 100 people. We must have been close to 2-3000 in the end!! Handing over the bouquets to the families was really touching - to think that a week ago someone died at this spot. On the lighter side, was very good to have met fatty and WW, while also chatting to Chilli, Zaskar, snapshot, jokerman, cervelo!, pantani MWNN: "Hi, you must be fatty? I'm Mwnn" fatty: "MWNN and long tongue!!" MWNN: " Uhm..... ja..... kindof forgot about that" fatty: "Maar genuine - kan jy rerig deur jou ore asemhaal?" Mwnn nearly falls of new bike......Chilli just blushes Well done to Ianj - I nominate you now for Charitable HUBBER of the year. You didn't think you would be doing this last week, nevermind get a 1000 cyclists to give up their Saturday morning for this worthy cause!!
Jamm Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Nice one to everyone involved! - Spotted an artical in the headlines section of IOL.co.za, so the message has been sent loud and clear.
hagar Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Well done IanJ and all those of you who supported this ride although some of us were not there in body we were with you in Spirit .
goofs Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Well done to all the organizers a very good turnout. Could not be there myself but chatting to some of my fellow club buddies it was a great success.
The Saint Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Gee what a ride this morning. Fantastic turnout. I filmed the bunch from leaving the site of Sybrandt and it took 8 minutes for them to all get past. I have not had much time today but I have stacks of pictures. I will work on them tomorrow after the H2H and post them here for all to see. I managed to meet with the families and all of them were so taken aback by the amount of support. They asked me to extend their hearfelt gratitude to all of you. Once again a big THANK YOU to EVERYONE who participated and particullarly for the conduct of all the cyclists. The was little to no disruption of the everyday traffic. More thank you's will follow tomorrow.
nellie Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Wish i was there... Great going and a massive thumbs up to every single one of you who were part of this! You guys are all stars! MWNN: "Hi' date=' you must be fatty? I'm Mwnn"fatty: "MWNN and long tongue!!"MWNN: " Uhm..... ja..... kindof forgot about that"fatty: "Maar genuine - kan jy rerig deur jou ore asemhaal?"Mwnn nearly falls of new bike......Chilli just blushes [/quote'] Great - you Gautengers also met the big guy.
Chunky Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Was an excellent ride, I think we made our point !!!! Big thanks to Ian, he was the main organiser of the event. Also a big thank you to all the riders who participated.
ladyfly Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 Congrats guys. Seems like I missed a lot not being around. Would have loved to have supported you guys had we been in Gauteng, but unfortunately, George is a long way away. Good to see that there was so much support.Once again, congrats on the great effort and turnout you guys had.
The Saint Posted January 27, 2007 Posted January 27, 2007 2 Images I had to put up tonight just to shw the level of commitment. The first one is the start, the second one is a little guy I met on the road at the back of the bunch....his name is Devon and is only 10 years old....heck of a nice little guy and he spent about 10 minutes chatting to me about all sorts of stuff. Very cool
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