Jaco, het jy my nie laasweek 'n storie vertel van jou saal nie? Adri
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Gerrit van Niekerk <[email protected]>wrote: > It is not often that the Trailmeister has to write the ride report as a > non-voluntary volunteer because he was the first to have not mastered the > trail too well. But let me not make a short story long as this turned out to > be quite a short ride; to be blamed on (or thanks to) the Broken Saddle. > > On the stroke of seven at the venue commonly referred to as the Moo Mall, > only six riders had assembled for the Mild2Wild ride on a mild night for > July which is supposed to be the middle of winter. All went well riding > Cruiser single-track, the tracks next to Nellmapius drive, the last part of > the Mieliemuur R.U.S.H., the speedzone up to the second road on the right > and the road up to St Georges in order to ride Roetter's Route going up. > > At the South-Eastern corner of the St Georges estate, I earned my writing > rights. I would have loved to have beeen able to say that it was my concern > for the riders following me, but to stick to the truth, I was more concerned > getting into one of my few non-slipping gears appropriate to scale > Roetter's. As it was, my attention was not on the loose rocks and gravel on > the turn and... > > While going up Roetter's, we had to rush through a raging veld-fire. Ok, > the fire wasn't quite so dangerous, but who wants to spoil a good story with > boring facts? > > The rest of the ride up to the bridge, on via Blairwitch Forest, the > district road and the start of the single track short-, or rather long-cut > proceeded smoothly, but we were interrupted by a radio message from the > sweeper to the effect that a saddle had been lost. We turned around to help > search for the missing saddle, just to discover that it had actually broken > off. > > With only six of us, we could hardly split up safely, so we decided to all > return via the shortest route, avoiding any paths not officially labeled as > roads. As a little consolation, four of us quickly completed the single > track loop before joining Jaco with the Broken Saddle having to stand all > the time or sit on the saddle-less frame at his peril. In solidarity with > Jaco I also did not sit down from Sesmylspruit to the mall and I hardly made > it. Well done Jaco with your 10+ km of doing it! > > So we arrived back at the Moo Mall a little after nine having done a > whopping 23.4 km, but it was still an enjoyable ride as it always is. > > Oupa Gert. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DarkAndDirty" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > -- Money will buy you a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not an appetite, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not happiness, image but not character and religion but not salvation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
