Trail Daze | Cape Town – Part 2
Kicking off 2017, the Trail Daze crew re-visited Cape Town to bring you the second of this two-part (part one) mother-city mountain biking showcase. We were joined by local pinner, industry influencer and all-round nice guy, Mark Hopkins. We met up at the Kloof Nek parking lot, just off Tafelberg Road, and headed for the […]
Revised Environmental Management Programme for cycling in TMNP released for comment
SANParks and the Table Mountain Mountain Bike (TMMTB) Forum have over the past few months been revising the current 2002 cycling Environmental Management Programme (EMP) for the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP). A draft of the revised EMP will be released for public comment on Monday, 4 April on the TMNP and TMMTB Forum websites […]
Absa Cape Epic: Working on the Table Mountain trails
The Absa Cape Epic will help to rehabilitate trails on Table Mountain following the highly successful Prologue on its slopes. The new singletrack from below the Blockhouse and down to Plum Pudding – opened for the event – is in need of work after the March 15 Prologue and heavy usage in the few days […]
‘All Systems Go’ for Table Mountain Cape Epic prologue
In 2009 the Absa Cape Epic Prologue was staged across the face of Table Mountain, in the Table Mountain National Park, but in the days before the event a fire swept across the slopes and much of the course. After a few nervous days the organisers were, however, able to stage what became known as […]
Trail revamp at Rhodes Memorial, Table Mountain
Mountain bike trails, many of us live for these sculptured tracks of dirt. But where do they come from? Who’s building them? And why don’t we know? While I won’t be going into why many South African mountain bikers can’t answer these fundamental questions, I will be pointing out who’s responsible for the most recent […]