About the event
The 2025 Old Hermon Gravel Ride will take place on Saturday, 4 October, with a choice of 22km, 44km routes and an 80km adventure on the cards. All three start and finish at the Welbedacht Wine Estate, just outside Wellington.
The two shorter options follow district and farm roads nearby, gaining 195m on the 22km, but a more testing 390m on the 44km. Both routes are tests of fitness, rather than skills, ideal for an introduction to gravel if you are crossing over from the road.
SEEDING EVENT STATUS
The 80km option is a Premier Seeding Event for the 2026 Cape Town Cycle Tour and will offer a sterner test. It has been laid out to challenge the speedsters, and the adventurers; with 990m of ascent, also on glorious backroads and farm tracks and with a Tour-de-France-esque road climb, but with a little bit of washboard and some sandy stretches thrown in to wake up the tech skills, especially at gravel-bike speeds.
Entries for the Old Hermon Gravel Ride are now open, and range from R256 to R550, with all entrants standing a chance of winning prizes from Garmin, Oakley and Thule. Expect quiet roads, world class organisation, refreshment stations you might not want to leave, and a great day out.
Event location
Welbedacht Wine Estate/Schalk Burger & Sons
Western Cape, South Africa
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