Suzuki Montana Pretoria

Suzuki Montana Pretoria

Suzuki Pretoria

Consider this your personal invitation to own and ride the 2009 Suzuki GSX-R1000.

Never has a litre-class motorcycle delivered so much power and torque while also reducing emissions so effectively.

It is the latest version of a machine that pioneered advanced performance technology and built its name on racetrack handling to match.

It is a machine that has become famous for the slogan, Own The Racetrack, and has backed up that slogan by taking over racing grids around the globe.

Ride it, and see for yourself.

Suzuki Pretoria

M109R has the soul of a classic cruiser combined with V-twin performance that gives you a charge every time you twist the throttle.

The Boulevard M109R‘s classic design begins with the flowing lines of its kicked-out front end and pullback handlebars which perfectly complement its teardrop tank, stepped seat and boldly valanced rear fender. These lines, of course, show off its spacious seating position which promises a comfortable ride hour after hour.

Down the boulevard or out on the highway, the M109R’s V-twin powerplant is engineered for pure excitement. With strong low-end and mid-range torque, it accelerates hard from just above idle.

Yet, thanks to its advanced engineering, it’s incredibly smooth at highway cruising

Suzuki Pretoria

Hayabusa. It’s a sporting legend that has become a performance legend in its own time. An aerodynamic machine inspired by and named for a Japanese peregrine falcon known for cutting the wind with incredible ease.

A motorcycle so exciting that it has developed a devoted following around the world. A motorcycle so amazing that it has outsold its would-be competitors across a span of almost ten years.

Combining seemingly effortless acceleration, wind-cheating aerodynamics, sporty handling, timeless style and unlimited excitement. Built to deliver balance performance.

Ducati South Africa

Ducati South Africa

Ducati

Ducati Cape Town

Ducati Cape Town opened its doors at the popular V&A Waterfront on the 27th of February 2009. The Italian Style, passion and sophistication synonymous with Ducati are all on show.

Neil Myburgh is the lucky person who beat entrants from 75 countries in a competition staged by SanDisk, the world’s leading producers of memory cards.

For his effort Myburgh will ride off on a Ducati 1098 Superbike, which was handed to him at a special event on top of Table Mountain.

The Ducati Superbike winner is originally from Zimbabwe and the MD of a steel company in Johannesburg. On a recent visit to Zimbabwe he had left his flash drive with his mother, and on return needed one urgently for himself. He dashed to his nearest store, bought a SanDisk flash drive and entered the competition. Neil was overjoyed at the news of winning as he is an avid biker and enjoys the outdoors.

The launch of the Ducati Street fighter –Soul of a Superbike, Attitude of a fighter

Living up to its name, there was little dought that the Ducati Streetfighter would score a round one knock-out when it entered the ring for the first time at the 2008 EICMA Show in Milan an immediate impact on the international press and the public, it was nominated “most beautiful bike in show” and raised the bar for the for extreme nakeds by creating a new point of reference in the market

Ducati Streetfighter

The superbike soul of the Ducati Streetfighter combines aggressiveness with the refined elegance of a naked and just one look at the bike provokes an intense rush of adrenaline and excitement. Stripped to the bare essentials, its combination of state-of- the-art race technology, skeletal styling and contemporary design takes Ducati’s big naked concept to the very top of the fighter food chain

Ducati Streetfighter

The true Ducati spirit is captured by an incredible powerful Desmodromic L-Twin 1098 “Testastretta EvoluzioneZ” engine producing 155hp with an incredibly wide spread of power thanks to 85lb-ft (11.7kgm) of torque. The street fighter’s power and precision is further maximised by weight in an just 368lb (167kg) (S version) and futher benefits from technology derived directly from Ducati’s MotoGP and Superbike projects.

Ducati Streetfighter

Ducati Traction Control and Data Analysis racing-style braking system, fully adjustable suspension and forget wheels all come as standard equipment on the “S” to complete the battle-ready package.

Ducati Streetfighter

BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria

BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria

Clubs are usually formed where and when a group of enthusiastic people with a common interest get together to do their thing as individuals, yet collectively to achieve a specific goal.  Such a goal can be to serve, to strive, to retain, maintain, produce, prevent, protect, preserve, collect, destroy, enjoy or whatever other verb the reader would care to conjure up.  Motorcycling people can be said to serve any number of these goals, including wanting to destroy the bad image associated with two-wheeled powered vehicles on the part of the ordinary and motoring public.  To this end we are committed to do our utmost.

BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria - Members

The BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria is of recent origin, a product of the middle of the last decade.  For many years Pretoria-based BMW bikers wishing to participate in Club activities had to do so through Club Central which is the name of the Johannesburg motorcycling equivalent.

BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria - Members

But eventually big clubs tend to break up into smaller clubs, for whatever reason.  There was a time when travelling the odd 120 km round-trip to JHB was not the hassle that it is today, what with the price of petrol, crowded roads, drunken drivers and the multitudinous criminal acts encountered all over.  Also, we wanted to establish an own biking culture, which is difficult to describe accurately, yet is all pervasive in a ‘local’ area.

Beginnings

The Club started off as a monthly after-work social held for friends and customers at Bruce Meyers` previous bike shop called Frates Motors, in a road by the same name in Rietfontein.  The idea caught on and soon bikers from all over Pretoria were popping in for a drink and a chat and looking forward to the next get-together.

BMW Motorcycle Club Pretoria - Extreme Riding

When Bruce moved to his new premises in Ockerse Street, the crowd naturally followed suit and that was when the idea of our own Pretoria club, (initially affiliated to ‘big brother’ in JHB) was hatched.  Our first problem was: What do we do for a club house? But Bruce and Wendy showed the way out by kindly offering, without obligation, part of their premises for this purpose, plus free food at the monthly first-Friday socials every other month (since changed to every month).  We naturally accepted with gratitude, convened a general meeting where guys and gals offered their services for free, and before long we were in business.

Vision and mission

The Club’s vision is also its mission, namely that of ‘fostering fellowship, through safe, supportive and responsible riding, and enjoyment of BMW motorcycles in a courteous manner’.  Its motto is ‘Shared Riding Pleasure’, borrowed partly from the BMW slogan of ‘Sheer Riding Pleasure’.

Grand opening

Under the heading ‘BMW Bike Club for the Jacaranda City’, the first Club newsletter, a two-pager (it had no name then but after some experimentation, has become ‘Spoke `n Piston’ ), announced that 7th July 1995 was an auspicious occasion for BMW bike aficionados in Pretoria.  This was when some forty guys and gals gathered after work at Bavarian Motorcycles in the heart of the city to celebrate the birth of the first BMW motorcycle club in Pretoria.  The late Barry Brody, (then) Manager- Motorcycles at BMW, opened the evening’s proceedings by congratulating the many Pretoria and environment BMW bikers on the Club’s formation, adding that BMW motorcycle clubs seem to be blossoming throughout South and Southern Africa, even as far away as Windhoek in Namibia.  This is good news for BMW bikers and all clubs should work towards establishing strong ties with one another, for the common good.

The Committee

The first Club committee comprised James McClelland: Chairman; Kim O’Connor: Secretary; Lodewyk Steyn: Treasurer; Francois Swanepoel: Events; and members Vic Alloway, Rob Hughes and Max Youngleson.

Since then, we have had four other chairmen, being: Adriaan Scheepers, Richard Hussey, Mike Hennessy and sitting presently, Deon Gericke.  Committee meetings were held at the Club House during the hour immediately preceding every Noggin.  This was fine with a small-membership club but nowadays these meetings are held over an entire evening every month, showing what intricacies are involved in running a club of this nature.

Growth

The list of paid-up members of this newly formed Club numbered seventeen on opening night.  (Of these only five are still members.) By 1st August, it had grown to 32.  By the end of 1999 with a membership of 160, the Club exceeded the minimum requirement of 100 members to enable it to earn a seat on the BMW Clubs Africa Management Committee.  A proud day for Pretoria BMW bikers indeed!

Country membership is also provided for at a reduced fee because of the impracticability of such members` travelling long distances to attend functions and to participate in rides.  Bona fide students also form a sub group at a reduced rate.  We have six honorary members;  Hennie de Beer has been with us from the beginning and fullfilled the function of barman for many years, Henri Heyns, long time editor of our club newsletter, Spoke & Piston, and Allie Scheepers, who performed the unenviable task of club secretary for many years.  Bruce and Wendy Meyers, as well as Simon Pilfold, as owners of Bavarian Motorcycles, have supported the club in numerous ways since its inception, and were therefore also unanimously nominated as honorary lifetime members.

Membership is open to anyone interested in motorcycling and/or BMW products.  This means that you don’t even have to own a motorcycle to be allowed into the Club, but there are enough enthusiasts around who will do their best to get you mobile on a bike marque of which many types and sizes exist, making a decision on which one possibly the most pleasurable but difficult exercise in one`s existence.

It has been said that your motorcycle is a placid and exciting friend, yet a treacherous and vicious companion.  It waits until you’re careless or drunk and then turns on you.  Enjoy your biking but take care so that you will arrive at where you wish to be.

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