Eteza Family Fun Ride - 20 Jan 2008

Sergio + George + Claudio

George, 4 years old, was thoroughly enjoying his first time riding outside of his parent's garden....

Date : Sunday 20 Jan 2008
Venue : Eteza Track on Van Heerden's Farm
Riders : >20

I was invited to join Sergio's group on a ride to Eteza, from Richards Bay, together with partners and kids. Having seen pix of their other rides, I anticipated a large family-orientated group, and I was not disappointed....

Most of the bunch did the trip from Richards Bay, leaving early in the morning, but Aziz and I met the party at Eteza.

Though it got EXTREMELY hot on the outride, there was NO stopping the kids from continuing to buzz around on their bikes long after the adults had stopped riding, and started "refreshing"....

Out of a riding group of around 25, more than half were ladies and kids! What a great way to spend a Sunday!

Sergio has some ambitious rides in the planning pipeline, and I hope to be a grinning participant on some of them....watch this space....


A point of interest - there were more Kymco quads on this ride than I've ever seen before! These guys swear by the Kymcos, and would not look at anything else....except maybe a demo Outlandger 800 going for a song...but, that's still only a vicious rumor....


Google Earth pictures and GPS Tracks submitted by Victor:

Richards Bay Airport to Kwambo

Kwambo to Eteza

Eteza MX Track close-up

Eteza Outride

Claudio, on a Dino 50

Aziz, taking a turn on Miguel's impressive Polaris Sportsman 90, which is solidly built, has reverse, and could probably tow a few sport bikes out of trouble...


At the start of the outride, with Victor and Padda in the lead, after doing a reccy lap to scout out the potential obstacles.


Victor and I spent a fair amount of time assisting the boys through some of the varied obstacles on the outride


Fly-boy Herman, ripping up the jumps on the MX track, after the outride - he was CLEARING the main tabletop!!!

plenty more photos available in the online photo album....please visit!