Friday ride in Southern Cape with pillion

[Walletjies]

I posted my planned route and Trailrider gave some valuable input.

How many things can go wrong on a trip, none of which is bike related?

First, the day started later than planned as we had to take the kids to Oudtshoorn.  Then I had to change my route as I planned to start from le Roux station.

I saw a route just outside Oudtshoorn, I wanted to do gravel to Herold and then tackle the first pass for the day.
At the turnoff was a roadblock, that was the easy part as everything was in order, but this greeted as across the Bakenskraal road:
(Image taken from Google earth!)

The reason why I had to take a google earth image -
The GoPro was still in the car!

OK, the road is closed in any case let's go back, get the camera and then hit the tar to Herold to get the trip going.

Flew past the roadblock after we got the camera, the GPS suggested a road to get back to our planned route, I obeyed and was grateful because it was a delight to ride the road to Heimersrivier.

Why an image form Google earth?
Well, we did not take a picture there.
(The rest will all be our own pics!)

As I said, I enjoyed the road, the next pics was taken from the turnoff to Herold.

R50 van ABSA vir die persoon wat kan sê wat die poort se naam is tussen Heimersrivier en die N9.
I write this in Afrikaans as I don't know what a poort is in English!

It is always nice to ride a road for the first time!

My wife was clicking away, I am trying to post only the best.

 

[Dirtcopper]

Dankie vir die R50

Paardepoort pas :thumleft:

 

[Walletjies]

Ek kon nie die naam onthou nie, maar skuld jou!

 

[Dirtcopper]

Ek kon nie die naam onthou nie, maar skuld jou!

:thumleft:

 

[GRyPH]

Ingeskryf. Wag vir die res.  :thumleft:

Terloops,  die pad wat gesluit was het n detour verby die proefplaas wat daar by die eerste garage in oudshoorn uitkom. (Vanaf die geslote hek So 500m na 1km terug dorp toe, Net voor jy oor die klein bult-bruggie gaan)

 

[Walletjies]

Dankie GRyPH

Die spietkop het so iets genoem, ek was bietjie gestres oor tyd en wou nie weer êrens verkeerd ry nie.

 

[Chrisl]

Ingeskryf. Wag vir die res.  :thumleft:

Terloops,  die pad wat gesluit was het n detour verby die proefplaas wat daar by die eerste garage in oudshoorn uitkom. (Vanaf die geslote hek So 500m na 1km terug dorp toe, Net voor jy oor die klein bult-bruggie gaan)

Daai pad is gesluit omdat daar n lekke swemgat op die pad is en die drol wat oorkant hom woon nie
van die geraas gehou het elke keer as iemand bo van die krans afspring nie.(veral die girls se volume)
Ek was gelukkig om nog daar te kon swem en afspring.

 

[Walletjies]

Ek het jare terug op Oudtshoorn gebly, maar nooit van sulke lekker gate geweet nie!

 

[Chrisl]

Ek het jare terug op Oudtshoorn gebly, maar nooit van sulke lekker gate geweet nie!

Ja maar ek praat ook nou van 19honderd83!! :imaposer:

 

[GRyPH]

Ek het jare terug op Oudtshoorn gebly, maar nooit van sulke lekker gate geweet nie!

Ja maar ek praat ook nou van 19honderd83!! :imaposer:

Shoe.  Dis amper amper voor my tyd.


Ek het altyd gewonder hoekom die pad gesluit is.

 

[Trailrider]

Waar die res? :deal:

Die pad is gesluit want hy is uitgekalwe onder. Jy sal nog daar ry dan ry jy IN die swemgat!

 

[Walletjies]

Moes inderhaas terugkom Kaap toe.
Nie nou lus vir rekenaar, sal môre res doen.

 

[Walletjies]

Waar was ons ...

Years ago I worked for Telkom in Oudtshoorn and while the Outeniqua Pass was under construction I went over the Montagu Pass in a bakkie, but this was my first time on two wheels and very special to do it with my wife.

Herold side of the mountain.

I was warned about GP traffic in the pass, we did encounter a couple of them and also some bikes.  They were all on there best behavior, often it is the locals that think they now the pass that comes flying past and again it happened to us with a CAW bakkie that was driving way to fast.

Going down the other side

Then the next hickup - the GOPRO started to give trouble, locked up so bad that I had to remove the battery to get it going again.
I did this twice, the up-side is that we will have to do this trip again to take more photos!

Through George and then it was the pleasure of doing the four passes road to Knysna for the first time.

The vegetation changes dramatically from the Klein Karoo where we stated to here close to the coast.

Our first visit to Karatara

If I have to retire here, this will be the spot for a runway to do my other passion - model planes and helicopters

This is my beauty ...
Extra with 30cc petrol engine

Driving into Knysna the road was very busy, I was looking forward to get to St. Francis pass.

We stopped at the same restaurant were we ate last year when we did St. Francis pass from Avontuur side.

We sat down to order, out came the phones to catch up on messages, when we got the news -

Dante, our Miniature Pincher, ran away looking for us.  We left him with my mom at le Roux station.
My wife said that there is no way that she will sit and eat while she don't know where Dante is.

Now, Dante is probably the most photographed dog in the world, all complements of my wife.

When Riebeecker had the skaapkop braai earlier in the year, Dante got the left-overs!

So, there goes my St. Francis pass, we rushed back to Oudtshoorn on tar and then to le Roux station.
I hope there is no photos coming for me in the post!

After half an hour's search, he came out of the vineyard at the back of the house!

All's well that ends well, now I have to do that trip again to get some photos of St. Francis pass.

 

[Trailrider]

Prince Alfred's Pass.

Nou kry ek ook R50? :biggrin:

Nice ride!

 

[Walletjies]

Prince Alfred's Pass.

Nou kry ek ook R50? :biggrin:

Nice ride!

Maandag blues.

Ja, kom haal gou!

 

[MissM]

Beautiful RR, and so glad that you found your dog  :thumleft:

 

[Walletjies]

Beautiful RR, and so glad that you found your dog  :thumleft:

Thanks, I can't image going to bed and not knowing where he was!

 

[nreyneke]

Lekker lekker lekker  :thumleft:

 

[GRyPH]

:thumleft:    Lekker!

 

[gwild]

Nice RR thx for sharing :thumleft: