Buffalo Rally
in Recreation
Overview
Date: 03/18/2011 - 03/20/2011
Time: 07:00 am - 07:00 pm
Location: Santos
George Road Mossel Bay, Western Cape 6500Contact Information
Website: http://www.nomads.org.za/index.html
E-mail: chairman@nomads.org.za
Contact Name: Luderick Jacoby
Phone: 082 559 7729
Description
Buffalo Rally History
In March 1969, a group of Nomads went camping at Silversands near Robertson over the Easter weekend and it was here that the idea of the Buffalo Rally originated. Over a campfire the plan for a national Motorcycle Rally was discussed by Messrs. Egon Mendel, Tony Bayley, Peter Flor, Tony Ferguson and Ray Bergman who were amongst some seventeen members who attended this event and whose names appear on a paper plate, which served as the official attendance register.
Hilary Watts, the then Editor of "SA Motor Cycle", nominated after much searching, the Town of Bathhurst, in the Eastern Cape, as a suitable venue.
Tony Ferguson was Chairman and in charge of the rally that year which drew an attendance of 250 entrants.
Even the Hells Angels were there, however, not as many as the Nomads. Nomads motorcycle club were not permitted to wear back 'patches' even in those days, only the small cloth ones. The Nomads Club were never given official credit for breaking the Eastern Cape drought in 1969. It poured for most of the weekend as it generally does to this very day whenever the Nomads Motorcycle Club holds a rally.
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