Bikers hold successful blood donation run

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MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The Ghost Riders Garden Route Motorcycle Club hosted its annual Blood Buddy Run at the Wings Aero Club, at the Mossel Bay airfield on Saturday, 3 June.

The weather was not perfect but 181 people - bikers as well as non-bikers including Mossel Bay mayor Dirk Kotzé - entered the gates.

PHOTO GALLERY: Ghost Riders' Blood Buddy Run

Kotzé gave a short speech and thanked the Ghost Riders for their efforts in facilitating a blood drive to save lives.

National president and national first lady of the Ghost Riders MC, Albert and Priscilla Jansen van Vuuren, came all the way from Johannesburg to attend the second Blood Run of Ghost Riders MC.

Although the target this year was 60, they came close to it, with a total of 50 people donating blood.

Many prizes were handed out and the club sold out all the boerewors rolls it had prepared.

The club also launched a "memorial barrel" - a barrel with a lamp on top to remember bikers who had died.

Club president Pieter de Bruyn and first lady Lizelle de Bruyn thanked every single person for their donation.

The memorial barrel with the inscription around the top: "All our fallen brothers and sisters. The road may be long and lonely without you, but you will ride on in our hearts."