I haven't yet been able to say; "Dammit that was a terrible breakfast run!" Not that I want to of course, my point being every month the run is good. We go to different places and sometimes the breakfast is better than others, sometimes they won't open the bar for us until the legal time and we learn which places are not worth visiting twice but the run is always great.
This is all because of the people on the run and the fact that we love riding, the food is incidental. Most of the time our monthly breakfast runs are only club members, we welcome visitors and have occasionally had riders from other clubs with us but it's not often.
This breakfast run was Anton's first as the new President. We had discussed going to the Spur in Piketberg but as the weather was forecast to be 31 celsius with 67% humidity we decided to stick to the coast, we would try Eland's Bay in spite of the Stop/Go's and Anton set the "Kickstands-up" time for 08h30 to make allowance, much to the dismay of Vice President Murray who likes his lie-ins.
We were to gather at the service station in Velddrif and as we headed through there we rode into a dense and cold fog bank that was to keep us cool for most of the way out.
Eventually nineteen of us on nine bikes with one car bringing up the rear headed out of the meeting place, for the first time in just over three years I was now riding in the middle of the pack again. The riding was pleasant, Anton set a cruising pace as the road is not great and the first of the three Stop/Go's opened just as we arrived, we blasted on through and pulled into the parking area of the "Skooltjie padstaal" (The little schoolhouse farmstall) for our first stop.
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| Tea anyone? |
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| Pres. |
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| A great Meeulander tradition |
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Back on the road after a nice break and we encounter the second of the three Stop/Go's, we weren't so lucky with this one or the next but the wait is not long, the road is not busy on a Sunday. We were chilled, we relaxed and chatted while we waited.
Having negotiated the roadworks we pulled off on the side of the road at the top of the hill before the descent into the valley and Eland's Bay. There was a bit of tea left which had to be taken care of.
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| Parking up outside the Elands Bay Hotel |
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| We encourage future bikers |
We had a decent breakfast, a festive time but we had to wait until 11h00 before the bar opened. We sat for a while chatting and then went back out on the road for the ride home. We had to go the same way, there is an alternative but very much longer. The road is not that bad, one just has to be careful of the roadwork sections but I am sure that in a year or two when the work is finished it will be a whole new story, perhaps a fast road because there are some nice corners.
Some of us decided to stop at De Palm in Saint Helena Bay for an A.B.F while the others opted to go home. It was a lovely ride back, the weather had cleared, it was not yet very hot and the roadworks did not delay us unduly.
Unintended segregation, it just turned out that way perhaps the ladies were tired of all the crap we talk? It was so pleasant there on the shaded veranda chatting with my brothers that I ended up having two bitterly cold draught beers, as I said; not a terrible breakfast run in fact it was right up there with the best we have had, I don't know why something just clicked.
This coming Sunday (tomorrow in fact as I write this) we have a biker's church service and then we usually go somewhere together for breakfast afterwards, I'm looking forward to that one again.
I have a few more of these photos on my "Braais, beers and bikes" facebook page should you be interested and you can click on the pictures to see them full size. Cheers for now, stay safe.
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