AWESOME report!!! Yeah mieliemuur is quite a challenge... well done on doing that up.
And you HOPE that was MUD.... So we can put it in the record books: ALL THE RIDERS of the night FELL?? Sjoe... tough night! On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Gerrit van Niekerk <[email protected]>wrote: > It started with a cool clear evening, but not another cyclist in sight. So > Oupa Gert and I waited a while hoping for some stragglers (which didn't > arrive) and then headed off on a 25km Urban Bash. > > Just past the airport Oupa's chain started singing loudly and it was quite > a way until the next garage, where there may have been some oil from a used > tin, but after digging through his backpack we found a small oil sample > which was there from the Sani2C. So the whine returned to a purr. After > that we continued on various single tracks and quiet residential roads to > the other side of the N1, up a long hill to a water tower. At some point > while crossing an intersection island, there must have been a burst water > pipe because we suddenly hit some thick red slippery mud (my first taste of > Pta in the summer - and I hear the grass can reach over your head). > > Later on we did some slalom down a long concrete sloot, which we needed > to do to avoid the bricks every 20m or so. Very nice! And then while > looking for a track across the veld below the sloot, Oupa took a dive when > his bike got tangled in some barbed wire. But no harm done, and we found > the track nearby and headed down towards, and then under, the R21. At > mieliemuur we decided not to take the soft winding road and headed up along > the wall all the way to the top. The last bit was really slippery but > lekker. > > And so that was that, a lekker D&D and the absentees really missed out. > It's really great to be finding my cycling legs again after so many years, > and as Oupa Gert said, a big answer to the prayers of many. > > Ciao > Stefan Milandri > <http://www.gpvno.co.za> > > > -- > 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. > -- Donald Klopper [email protected] -- 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.
