On request - BMC Night Ride

[Overlord]

We were standing having a chat when they got back. As I was about to leave Droo stopped me and asked for help. So I stuck around and helped him with his problem.

[Slowbee]

glad you guys had a good time !

[BMCfan]

 

Was great meeting you Slowbee and droo and nice seeing old faces again!!!

 

 

I've just stepped into the office, so now i have sufficient internet acces to sit down and write a whole race ride report!!!

 

Those 'you-are-mad-to-go-cycle-in-this-weather' can be very jealous, it was an awesome evening.

 

Ok, ill check in again after a cuppa and a report

 

cya later!

 

[droo]

The weather was great, the mud was epic and it was cool to meet some new folk... next time Tokai, and less chickening out from everyone who wasn't there

[BMCfan]

 

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On my way home last night from work, I was in such a hurry because

I needed to pick the wife up from work that I totally forgot to fill up the

car. I was praying all the way up Vissershok that I just make it over the hill

so that I can freewheel into Durbanville. Never mind all the traffic, Capies can?t

drive in the rain and the traffic was twice as bad as usual!

 

 

Luckily I made it to the first petrol station, picked up the

wife and made a quick pit stop at the shop to keep the wife happy. I won?t say

this out loud, but it was storming at one stage and I thought to myself, what

did I let myself in for!!

 

At home I was like in a jack-in-the-box waiting for the time

to go on the ride, looking out the window every five minutes to assess the

weather! My little one couldn?t understand why her dad is more excited than her

for a change!

 

18:30 couldn?t come earlier, filled up the water bottle,

check that the lights were tightened and at 18:40ish lube the chain as I was

leaving the front door. In this process I left my gloves (yes I know- bloody

idiot!) on the couch.

 

To my surprise it wasn?t raining and I thought what a

bargain, I hate starting a ride in the rain. Don?t mind rain while I?m warmed

up. So I struck a bargain, it could only get better! And so it did. To safe

some time I decided to take some shortcuts to Majik. Oh boy, what fun that was.

The roads were WET, within the first 800m I went through some HUGE mud

puddles, almost seen my ass big-time (I couldn?t get unclipped and got it out

just in time).

 

Going past the D/ville golf course the squeaking of the

trees and the howling wind didn?t put me off as I knew I?m hooking up with some

great lads for an outrageous ride so I pushed up the steep-ish uphill to reach

Durban road, from where it was downhill all the way to MF. Reaching MF with

ample time to spare I took out the phone to check who chickened out! To my

surprise no missed calls or sms?es. I took a peek at the hub to see if someone

didn?t post a no-show on there and I saw slowbee?s post that he was in the car

park and I knew the guys would be down in a minute.

 

Slowbee rocked up first, IN HIS CAR, don?t know how he

thought he will get to the top of MF with that!! NAAAH just joking with you

slow ? pity they couldn?t fix the bike in time! Next time, next time!

 

And then the rest of the guys arrived on their bikes, when I

could hear them before I saw them, I knew this was going to one awesome ride!

 

 

After we sorted TarmacPro with an extra light and greeted Slowbee, we (Myself,

TarmacPro, Mackem, Droo and Onetime) set off into the dark, which soon became

day with all the impressive lights on show!

 

We were chatting like crazy until we turned left onto the

first steep-ish hill, when droo and Onetime picked up the pace, bastards ? lol.

We were now just muttering a word here and there until we reached the top, took

a breather and carried on. Once we turned going up to the beacon, it was

becoming quite misty and it looked awesome with the patterns the lights? beams

made into the mist!

 

We stopped at the beacon and I tried to shed some lights on

the riders and took a pic (see pic1&2). From there we cruised up and it

became very muddy and slippery, made for some lekker laughs. Once we hit the

section along the electric fence the okes became very silent!!! With reason, we

were so concentrating not to touch that fence in this weather ? HAHAHAHAHA.

 

After that it was time for downhill!! Yeehah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TarmacPro decided to take the lead and the rest of us followed closely until we

reached the drop off, when droo decided to take the drop-off, crazy man!! The

rest of the downhill was just catch up, as he is a daemon on the downhill. We

hit the single track up the fence and reached the section were they are busy

working on. By this time everyone forgot about the struggle up the uphill and

were chatting and smiling again! Into the forest section we bumped into 2

?local residents?, who by that time of night were very friendly and talkative

to us. With a quick exchange of hi?s, hello?s and what-ya-ma-call-it?s we flew

past them. And before we blinked we came out the forest, lap one over L

 

After a lengthy discussion, droo and myself decided to go up

to the beacon again as the others were pressed for time ;-) We took a leisurely

stroll up to the beacon and then I tried to play catch-up to droo all the way

down, coming down softly in one corner, luckily no-one was there to witness

and/or take pics!!! Poor droo had to stop numerous times to wait for this

roadie to come out of the dark. When we hit the shopping centre were droo was

parked Onetime and TarmacPro were still chit-chatting and I decide to leave the

3 of them and hit the road back home.

 

Had very quiet ride home except for the odd squeak from the

bike. When I got home I saw that the bike was brown and not black anymoreL I did take a pic of my

sock tan, I will include the pic. No more midsummer rides to get a sock tan,

will just hit MF in the middle of winter from now on!!!!

 

 

A very big thanks to all who pitched, we will definitely

make this a more regular thing AND those of you who couldn?t make it ? join us

next time, awesome bunch of guys and lots of FUN!!!

 

DONT KNOW IF

YOU NOTICED, I DIDNT MENTION WE WERE SOAKED ONCE!!!!!!!

 

THAT?S CAUSE

WE WERENT!!!!!! NOT ONE RAINDROP FROM THE TIME I LEFT HOME TILL THE TIME I GOT

BACK!!!

 

NOT

ONE

 

 

.BMC Fan2009-06-05 06:32:39

[BMCfan]

 

 

just dont seem to get this copy and paste right

 

 

i give up

BMC Fan2009-06-05 06:36:14

[Reg Lizard]

Dit lyk na een helse spelling error

[Overlord]

Good ride report BMC Fan!!!

[Reg Lizard]

Ag toe nou, jy gaan nie 'n brekkies kry daarvoor kry nie.

[Overlord]

 

Ag toe nou' date=' jy gaan nie 'n brekkies kry daarvoor kry nie.[/quote']

 

AI!!!!

 

[BMCfan]

hey akkedis-mannetjie ,jy en daai blues mysie sal lekka oorrie wegkom

 

julle is al2 eewe yelluus

 

[Reg Lizard]

Ag toe nou' date=' jy gaan nie 'n brekkies kry daarvoor kry nie.[/quote']

AI!!!!

 

@ Eentyd: Toemaar jy het ten minste probeer.

 

@ BMC fan: Hey, kan ek dit help as julle my nie kan sien as ek in die donker sonder 'n lig rond ry nie- Ek was daar julle kon my net nie sien nie.

[hagar]

ek is so spyt BMC flip man volgende keer eish julle het fun gehad like jou ride report