Early ride last Sunday with Rebbecca, Juan, Nadine and Gary, we met at the BP at 5:30 and headed out towards the mielie fields. Weather was great besides a bit of a headwind. I decided to detour from going down next to the train tracks like last week and instead went venturing over Bapsfontein road and past the Polo Fields. This where I came a bit stuck as we did not cut across a farm on the route Greg and I did before (the farmer had a few stern words with us), instead we headed straight and ended up getting slightly lost, after jumping a few fences we managed to eventually find our way back in the general direction of the brick yard. Fortunately the group did not hassle me with my bumbling tour director duties and welcomed the extra kilometers that we did :-).
3 other highlights of the ride were:
- Accelerating past some (unfriendly) road bikers and leaving them in our dust when coming back on the 'Roller Coaster' road towards Dunblane.
- Gary buying a farm when going through a ditch (ok I stopped and this put him off)
- Platkop Mucha coffee at the Hava Java cafe at the Brentwood Pick & Pay center afterwards.
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| Gary, Nadine, Becky and Juan taking a breather and refueling |
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| Gary after he bought a bit of a farm (Nadine had a good chuckle) |
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| Well deserved coffee afterwards... |
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