Riding in the new year
Where did 2011 go? For me all over the place – with World Cups, World Champs and various other events and photo-related travel around the world! Who knew a simple bike could take you that far. But at the end of all the chaos of travel it was good to spend the last few days [...]
Some Zebra & a Lion (park)
I trust the Xmas festivities, feasting and family time treated you all well … we had a full house of 16 at ours! Fun times. Karen, Molly and I did a quick lap around the neighbourhood delivering presents to long time family friends – not recorded on the Strava App for the challenge – who [...]
Back to my roots
Twas the night before Xmas and all that … but its been a crazy and fun few days getting into the Xmas spirit and away from Cape Town to Pietermaritzburg. We started off with a ‘quick’ road trip to Vermaaklikheid for rope swings, bike rides, marshmallows and all that goes with that … [...]
khwela intaba*
So we had our second trial run/experiment for the mate’s races, funduro, enduro what have you this weekend. But before we get the nitty gritty – here’s some background. We all like riding bikes, we all like pushing ourselves on singletrack and unknown trials & we all like to race our mates. So why not [...]
Exercising the demons
Got a bee in my bonnet to do a long ride today … started at 9am ended at 3pm. Granted I stopped for two cappuccinos at Dario’s in Hout Bay with Tim. But other than that 30/40 minutes the rest of the time was on the bike or taking photos. This justification is mainly for [...]
A weekend away
So last weekend was the Eselfontein Festival in Ceres … on one of the Western Cape’s hidden gems. Its a network of trails that I’m always surprised we don’t ride more … its full of seriously sinous, and almost sensual, singletrack. With grandparents and babysitters arranged, Karen, Jackie, Tom, Tienie and myself decided to have [...]
