HY is vriendelik Afrikaans, maar met \u2019n kos-mopolitiese passie vir motorfietse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
En daar is geen aansitterigheid by nie \u2013 Pieter Delport van Jeffreysbaai is l\u00e1nkal deur die motorfietsgogga gebyt, en alles omtrent sy motorfiets spel perfeksie in enige taal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het die pad van meeste jongmanne van sy dag geloop \u2013 n\u00e1 matriek in Pretoria in die laat tagtigs, het hy eers vliegtuig-ingenieurswese gestudeer voordat die weermag hom gegryp het. Twee jaar hardepad, vinnig man-word, 7 maande in Angola in die pantserafdeling. En n\u00e1 dit was dinge bietjie fuzzy<\/i>, s\u00ea hy \u2013 soos vir baie terugkerende soldate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Mens moet egter aangaan n\u00e1 die waansin van oorlog, en hy het as patroon\/modelmaker by die Spoorwe\u00eb gekwalifiseer. Na twee jaar het die wapad hom geroep en is hy na onder andere Mosambiek waar hy sy eie besigheid bedryf het. Hy is \u2019n veselglaskenner, en die DJ-gene loop sterk. Hy doen steeds musiekgeleenthede, maar sy dagtaak is sy P & G Hi Tech Shop by Spar-sentrum, terwyl sy vrou, Hanli, haar eie PostZone-winkel by Checkers in Da Gamaweg bestuur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar sy eintlike fort is motorfietse. Sy fietse deur die jare klink soos musiek in die motorfietsryer se ore. Op 13 het hy koerante met \u2019n 120cc \u201capteekfiets\u201d afgelewer; op 17 \u2019n Su-zuki HB 50 wat net vinnig genoeg was dat die honde nie sy hakskene kon verniel nie; op 19 \u2019n Kawasaki Z1000 Chopper, wat hy half onwillig as gesinsman vir \u2019n motor moes verrui<\/span>l. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dertien jaar gelede het die koors hom egter opnuut getref \u2013 di\u00e9 keer met groter geweld. Na hy \u2019n GPZ Kawasaki 250 cc opgebou het, was die gort gaar en het hy \u2019n FJ 1200 Yamaha, \u2019n Yamaha R1 Big Bang, en eindelik \u2019n Kawasaki ZX 1000 omgebou. In die reparasie-proses was daar ook \u2019n Kawasaki 1000 om mee af te koel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy was in twee motorfietsongelukke \u2013 as gevolg van \u2019n taxi wat voor hom ingedraai het, en \u2019n ouer man wat die verkeer verkeerd ge-lees het. Origens is sy rekord skoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy prestasies lees soos \u2019n storieboek, hierdie Jeffreysbaaier wat die dorp se naam sterk uitdra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die saamtrekke waaraan hy deelneem, is uit die boonste rakke, met standaarde wat deur slegs die mees toegewyde motorfietser gehandhaaf kan word. Daar word met \u2019n fynkam deur elke fiets gegaan. \u2019n Vuil kolletjie is taboe. Verfwerk moet perfek wees, oorspronklikheid van ontwerp is \u2019n pluspunt. Enige moontlike foutjie word byna met \u2019n vergrootglas gesoek. Die algeheel mooiste en tegnies beste versorgde fiets is die wenner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dit is di\u00e9 algehele winner, die mees uitstaande fiets in alle afdelings, wat Pieter jaar na jaar in sy visier het. Met die toewyding waarmee hy die custom-built<\/i> droom najaag, is dit geen wonder nie dat hy gereeld as die wenner in die hoogste kategorie se\u00ebvier. S\u00f3 lyk sy lys seges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hartenbos Whale Rally, wenner 4 jaar na mekaar; Mosselbaai Buffalo Rally, wenner 3 jaar na mekaar; Dolphin Rally, 2 jaar na mekaar; Die Loerie Ruskamp Wild Horse Rally, wenner; en Wes-Kaap Freedom Rally, wenner.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pieter laai nie sy motorfiets op \u2019n sleepwa nie \u2013 hy ry self na elke byeenkoms. En sy vrou klim agterop. Hy is in elke opsig \u2019n perfeksionis wat die voorkoms van sy fiets betref, want slegs d\u00edt laat hom elke keer wen. By sy huis in Jeffreysbaai is die groen monster deel van die meublement. Dit staan daar op wit te\u00ebls, saam met al die trofees, bekers en ander pryse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die vertrek is ook braaiplek, gim en kuierhoek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ontbytritte en ritte saam met die CMA-Christengroep vorm outomaties deel van \u2019n groep mense wat die genot van vars lug en spoed en brullende enjins verkies bo enige ander vervoer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As jy eenmaal \u2019n motorfietsenjin onder jou gevoel bewe het, dan is jy min of meer permanent verlief op hierdie rare verskynsel wat net anders as enige ander vervoermiddel is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Noem hulle op: motors, trokke, vliegtuie, trapfietse . . . die motorfiets het nie sy gelyke nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En vir Pieter Delport is sy fiets sy tweede vrou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HY is vriendelik Afrikaans, maar met \u2019n kos-mopolitiese passie vir 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