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By Clive “The Classic” Strugnell<br />
T H E F U N P A R T O F<br />
THE BREAKFAST RUN<br />
If you live in Gauteng and anyone<br />
Smith or Jones so that they could have<br />
The one thing that hasn’t changed<br />
mentions the Breakfast Run it is<br />
bacon and eggs. That done everyone would though is how much fun it is to sit and tell<br />
immediately accepted that you mean race off as fast as they could to the hotel. biking stories with all your mates and their<br />
a motorcycle ride from anywhere on the<br />
Reef to somewhere around Hartebeespoort<br />
Dam. The funny thing about the Breakfast<br />
Run is that it started off as quite a formal<br />
thing… a bunch of guys who had bought<br />
the motorcycle that really changed the<br />
world, the original Honda CB 750, wanted<br />
somewhere to go where they could ride<br />
fast, and where there was hardly any traffic<br />
(or Spietcops). This was back in 1970,<br />
especially at 7am on a Sunday morning.<br />
Guys with the first real production superbike<br />
would meet at the old Bryanston Post Office,<br />
count how many people had pitched, and<br />
phone Mrs Gray at the old Hartebeespoort<br />
Hotel opposite the Zoo, (it’s now a steak<br />
house) to tell her how many s she should<br />
prepare. The Jewish guys left their<br />
yarmulkes at home and called themselves<br />
Breakfast was a great event, more for the<br />
rubbish that everyone talked than the food.<br />
It was just a laugh a minute from beginning<br />
to the end. It was also the place to show off<br />
anything new and was just so enjoyable.<br />
Over the years a lot has changed. The<br />
bikes are better and faster, there are lots<br />
more of them, the old Hotel is long gone<br />
but it has been replaced by literally dozens<br />
of really cool breakfast places. The roads<br />
have actually got worse and the traffic is<br />
hectic, partly because where this part of<br />
the Magaliesberg used to be a backward<br />
place where robbers and highwaymen hid<br />
from the cops it’s now one huge up-market<br />
suburb. So it’s now an ever better place to<br />
show off all the best biking stuff at trendy<br />
coffee spots.<br />
mates well - everyone’s mates.<br />
So when we recently decided to try out<br />
a collection of the latest super touring bikes<br />
we decided the only way to do this properly<br />
was to go on a Breakfast Run. Being a bit<br />
old school I thought this meant meeting<br />
at the designated spot at about 7 am. No<br />
way Jose’…this is 2016, we met at 10am.<br />
Frikadel….maybe we will be in time for<br />
lunch. Anyway, we eventually all managed<br />
to find our group, and after confusing each<br />
other properly trying to get photo’s with cell<br />
phones and a Go Pro, we decided to swop<br />
bikes. The idea was to ride each of them<br />
and then build up a story with everyone’s<br />
opinions combined. So we stopped at the<br />
Cradle where lots of guys in funny tights<br />
hissed past us on pedal bikes, and moved<br />
to the next bike.<br />
50 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE JULY 2016
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