MOCSA run to Magalisburg

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Magaliesberg Run – Lover’s Rock – 26 March 2017

Article by Séan Brennan.

A pretty cold wet looking start to the morning in Johannesburg, seems to have put a few of our members off from taking their wee beasties out for the morning, or perhaps it was the +200km trip that was the problem.

Our 1st meeting point was in Pretoria at Menlyn MINI again, bright an early at 8am, the procession left there at 8.30am and met up with some more of us at Lanseria TOTAL Petroport @ 9am. We had a cup of coffee to warm the cockles of our heart and headed back onto the road.

The roads were not the greatest, but we had no major casualties, apart from one of the carbs on Simon’s beautiful yellow van deciding to hiccup and give some grief, luckily, George Clifford was on hand with a spanner and a screwdriver and had the 998 motor purring again in two shakes of a lambs tail.

There were two options for the day, eat at the restaurant or picnic/braai, but with the R80 costs per person just for entry to braai, we all opted for the restaurant.


Unfortunately the service was really not up to scratch, it reminded us of the unofficial Xmas run to Roccomamas where in two hours they couldn’t make 15 burgers, but the food was reasonable (provided you didn’t order the calamari) and affordable, would we go back ? Probably not J. 

However, the run was enjoyable, and a good long trip to blow the cobwebs out of our little A series engines.

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