The Mountain Goats Cycling Club (MGCC) hosted its Christmas in July Charity Race this past weekend at the Grootfontein Bike Park to raise funds for the Wollies Animal Shelter in Pretoria North.
The sanctioned MTB (Mountain Bike) race offered participants 20 and 40-km distances and was supported by various stakeholders all in the name of supporting Wollies.
“We are all extremely big animal lovers and Wollies is one of the very few non-kill shelters in Gauteng. They are overcrowded with animals and they are very low on funds so it just makes sense to support them,” said one of the organisers, JP Ronquest.
The race on July 20 was the MGCC’s first officially sanctioned race that was opened to the public.
Fellow organiser and SAPS member, Tillanie Neetling says that she joined the MGCC after looking for friends to cycle with amid bike jackings in the area.
“They bike jack quite often here, Bapsfontein those areas, even Garsfontein, there’s a gang that used to hijack people riding bikes and their belongings, so I thought it’s better to join a group and their my kind of people, what you see is what you get,” Neetling said.
MGCC aims to host four races next year and hopes to do them all for charity.
“This was very well done and we really appreciate the bike club helping us, we look after over 1000 animals and it’s really hard so getting the awareness out there is the main aim,” said Joggie Trexler of Wollies.
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