Adventure and Travel

Help build the Super Loop at Garden Route Trail Park

Help Matt MacDuff raise his Super Loop at the Garden Route Trail Park outside Knysna. Matt Macduff is about to embark on his most ambitious project ever; building the worlds largest wooden loop de loop at 12 meters (40 ft) and riding it on his Bicycle! Location: Garden Route Trail Park This is no easy […]

Events

Video: Dawn Of The Dirt Jam 2015

Dawn of the Dirt took place in mid November at the Garden Route Trail Park. The main event was a dirt jump jam including mountain bike and BMX riders. The event also featured an enduro, making the most of the amazing single track on offer at the Trail Park. Watch Thomas Sandell’s highlights video from […]

Adventure and Travel

Dawn of the Dirt takes to the air at Garden Route Trail Park

This weekend saw the first dirt jumping competition happen at the Garden Route Trail Park. A new line of jumps and excited MTB and BMX riders was a recipe for an awesome day of action! Riders from all over the country made their way to the bike park for Monster Energy’s Dawn of the Dirt. […]

Events

Jam at the new Garden Route Trail Park dirt jumps

Dawn Of The Dirt is an opening jam for the new dirt jumps at the Garden Route Trail Park. It will be held on the Sunday but riders can come before and practice the jumps on the Saturday. All riders are welcome, if you can’t ride the dirt jumps there is also a pump track […]

Adventure and Travel

2015 Rocky Mountain Rocky Forest Fest

The annual Rocky Mountain Rocky Forest Fest took place this past weekend at the Garden Route Trial Park, just outside Knysna. With a variety of not-so-serious events taking place during the course of the weekend, with the idea of getting riders a chance to test out some Rocky Mountain bikes, the main feature was the […]

Adventure and Travel

Trail Daze: Up the N2 to the Garden Route Trail Park

Guarded by the majestic Outeniqua mountain range and the Karatara river gorge, the Garden Route trail park is located about 5 hours of scenic driving from Cape Town, or just 40km from the ever popular town of Knysna. Owner and trail builder, Rob Dormehl, has put together a high quality MTB destination that should be […]

Events

Video: Ride all day – Theo rides the OneForty650 Pascoe

Theo Erlangsen put the Pascoe through its paces on his favourite trails in and around Cape Town: Helderberg Trails, The Trail Park in George and Cascades Manor, Paarl.

Events

Pure Darkness 2: The Garden Route Trail Park Step Up

The Pure Darkness team visited the Garden Route Trail Park while down to compete in The Night Harvest in March. Rob Dormehl (the man behind the Trail Park) had big plans for their visit and surprised the riders with a gargantuan pit. Rob and the lads set to work to create possibly the biggest mountain […]

Adventure and Travel

Trail review: Garden Route Trail Park

There has been a lot of talk about the Garden Route Trail Park lately, so much so that Monster Energy Cape Town decided to take a road trip to find out first hand what it’s like. After a long drive, we were finally greeted by a sign letting us know we were in the right […]

Tech

Review: Garmin Virb Elite video camera

Released in 2013, the Virb Elite is Garmin’s entry into the action camera market. A tough market to crack with its stalwart, GoPro, and countless other manufacturers seeking their piece of the pie. In the Virb Elite, Garmin has combined its GPS and data sensor know-how to offer something different to the rest of the […]