About the event
The 2023 Old Hermon Gravel Ride will take place on Saturday, 26 August, with a choice of 22km, 45km routes and an all-new 85km adventure on the cards. All three start and finish at the Welbedacht Wine Estate, just outside Wellington and home to the world-famous Schalk Burgers Senior and Junior, father and son rugby legends.
The two shorter options follow district and farm roads nearby, gaining 227m on the 22km, but a more testing 433m on the 45km. 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 85km option is a Premier Seeding Event for the 2024 Cape Town Cycle Tour and will offer a sterner test. It has been laid out to challenge the speedsters, and the adventurers; with a smidgen under 1100m of ascent (similar to the Cycle Tour, but with 30km less to find the vert), it will be a physical event, 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 R250 to R450, with all entrants standing a chance of winning prizes from Garmin, Oakley and Thule. Expect quiet roads, world class organisation from the Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust, refreshment stations you might not want to leave, and a great day out.
Event location
Western Cape, South Africa
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