Harties, Breedtsnek, Mooinooi, Meerhof!

[Numsch]

Three of us ventured off on what turned out to be an awesome day ride on Saturday 4/12/21 with mixed weather and road conditions. There has been plenty rain over the last week so we knew we were in for a few surprises. We met at the Sasol in Broederstroom at 07:00 with the rain staying away until we reached the top of Breedstnek.





Out with rain jackets and we proceeded down a very wet Breedtsnek. The dirt road to Mooinooi was like snot, i stopped and warned the guys to take it easy on this road, little did I know that I was going to be the one that nearly saw my arse. How I saved this, God only knows but I thought I was down! 

https://youtu.be/_3lrSSyZ-ek

A quick stop to check my pants and we were off to railway tracks where the weather cleared up nicely!




A quick breakfast at the Cock and Bull at Harties before we set off to find the Meerhof bridge via the dam tunnel.






Some more muddy conditions drained one of our riders on his 1190's maiden off road ride!



Exhaust bracket broke so some quick bush repairs



All in all a good 250km round trip from Fourways.

 

[Vintage_Mania]

Nice! Good to see Kobus out on a ride  :thumleft:

Could you share the route, please?

 

[LouisXander]

Ja, I like that train bridge section

 

[iamgigglz]

Nice! Good to see Kobus out on a ride  :thumleft:

Could you share the route, please?

+1
I've ridden that area dozens of times but this RR looks completely foreign to me  :eek7:

 

[Noneking]

Lekker pics!

 

[TheHamster]

Watching the video off your " near off", I can understand the concern of checking the underwear. Good job keeping things upright

 

[Numsch]

Video of us crossing the Meerhof bridge.

https://youtu.be/FVE9A1wQuCY

 

[shark_za]

Deploy outriggers!

haha

 

[Numsch]

Nice! Good to see Kobus out on a ride  :thumleft:

Could you share the route, please?

I've sent you the GPX via WhatsApp. Please post here as Postimage doesn't allow upload of the GPX.

 

[BFG]

Nice! Good to see Kobus out on a ride  :thumleft:

Could you share the route, please?

I've sent you the GPX via WhatsApp. Please post here as Postimage doesn't allow upload of the GPX.

Quick bump on this for the GPX file please

 

[Vintage_Mania]

Attached as received.

 

[OomD]

That GPX does not seem to cross to Meerhof bridge, if I am correct in the bridge being the one that crosses the Crocodile river next to Meerhof, as the river flows into the dam? If I'm correct, from which side does one approach the bridge? Jasmyn/Meerhof side? Or the western side?

 

[Numsch]

That GPX does not seem to cross to Meerhof bridge, if I am correct in the bridge being the one that crosses the Crocodile river next to Meerhof, as the river flows into the dam? If I'm correct, from which side does one approach the bridge? Jasmyn/Meerhof side? Or the western side?

You can approach from both sides, we did the route in reverse on 16th.

 

[OomD]

That GPX does not seem to cross to Meerhof bridge, if I am correct in the bridge being the one that crosses the Crocodile river next to Meerhof, as the river flows into the dam? If I'm correct, from which side does one approach the bridge? Jasmyn/Meerhof side? Or the western side?

You can approach from both sides, we did the route in reverse on 16th.

Thanks! My Basecamp cannot import your GPX, complains that it's an invalid GPX. Only me?

 

[Numsch]

That GPX does not seem to cross to Meerhof bridge, if I am correct in the bridge being the one that crosses the Crocodile river next to Meerhof, as the river flows into the dam? If I'm correct, from which side does one approach the bridge? Jasmyn/Meerhof side? Or the western side?

You can approach from both sides, we did the route in reverse on 16th.

Thanks! My Basecamp cannot import your GPX, complains that it's an invalid GPX. Only me?

This GPX is from the phone app Bike GPX.

 

[Vintage_Mania]

Works with the Rever app

 

[OomD]

Yeah it's probably just basecamp that's full of crap.

 

[Numsch]

This section is like snot at the moment!  ;D

 

[LouisXander]

Hierdie reen maak die grond paaie interesant hoor!

Myself in n Ander bloedgroep ingeval Sondag ook oppad Koepel toe saam @Psycho Porra en my Seun.

 

[RADventureZA]

Thanks for sharing the route. If any of you are wondering what the condition of breedtsnek is like after all the rainfall you can have a look at my newbie attempt.

https://youtu.be/1qD23_9M0oE