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The Throttle<br />
Angels<br />
Womans Day<br />
Ride:<br />
You’ve met the clan from Grotto To<br />
Gravel - the guys responsible for<br />
the Gatskuur feature over the last<br />
few issues?<br />
That will continue when we have<br />
space - but they hosted a very<br />
cool initiative the other day, and<br />
our Stefan, Rene’ and Morag went<br />
along to help out, take pics and<br />
have some fun...<br />
Stefan and Morag tell the story.<br />
Pics by Blackrock Creative Studio’s<br />
The call went out to the ladies:<br />
Come and have a lekker ride and, while you<br />
are at it, please donate a bra for CANSA and<br />
sanitary products to donate to underprivileged<br />
girls.<br />
More than 200 people showed up in support<br />
of woman’s day on well over 100 bikes, for an<br />
event that was only planned a few weeks ago.<br />
We rode with the gravel rider group, there<br />
were also 2 tar groups leaving from separate<br />
locations; one from Ducati Centurion and the<br />
other from KTM Raceworx in Roodepoort. It<br />
was great to see around 60 adventure bikes<br />
get together at BMW Motorrad to go on a<br />
lekker ride.<br />
Open Riders Morag Campbell was the gravel<br />
ride leader for the woman’s day ride, and<br />
after we all warmed up with a cup of coffee<br />
and signed the register, she started the rider<br />
briefing:<br />
A very relaxed ride from Motorrad Centurion<br />
onto the freeway, off at Diepsloot and onto<br />
the R511, meet again at ADA and then hit<br />
the dirt all the way to Grotto to Gravel Bikers<br />
Hideaway.<br />
Some rules that Morag mentioned during the<br />
briefing; to ride at your own pace, with a fast<br />
medium and slow group on tar, wait for the<br />
people behind you when turning off, stick<br />
together on the gravel but leave a dust gap,<br />
and have fun!<br />
It was a great ride for everyone, the beautiful<br />
flowy curves of the R511 through the<br />
mountains made for a relaxing start. We got<br />
onto the gravel about 5 k’s from ADA, which<br />
was another greatl ride through the Magalies<br />
mountains.<br />
It was a green route, easy enough for even my<br />
inexperienced riding ability with a pillion. There<br />
were some lurkers and lots of potholes but all<br />
in all a great ride.<br />
We rode through the mountains and around<br />
a nature reserve, and if your eyes were quick<br />
enough you would’ve spotted some Impala and<br />
a few baboons.<br />
The gravel road came up to a tar road just 500<br />
meters from the Grotto to Gravel venue, where<br />
more than 150 bikes showed up from all over.
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