8 PLACES YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MOUNTAIN BIKE
The December road trip is an institution in South Africa. Kids fighting on the back seat, eye-spy-with-my-little-eye, picnics sweltering under the only tree between Putsonderwater and Pofadder and dad flashing his lights at the kindred Cortina station wagon coming the other way… these are the things childhood memories are made of.
These days, eye-spy is an adult game, too, and involves spotting the bikes on other travellers’ bike racks, assessing their place in cycling society, relative to the collection of two-wheeled family members on the back of your own car. And that’s a full-time occupation, today, as the cycling bug has bitten far and wide. Moms and dads are taking bikes to keep their training going, and the kids are joining in and exploring new roads.
Travelling with your bike(s) has become a whole lot easier, too, with numerous bike-rack solutions on the market allowing as many as four bikes to be loaded at a time, relatively effortlessly and without damaging your preciouses.
KWAZULU-NATAL RIDES
KZN has a rich mountain biking history – it’s home to SA’s greatest mountain biker of all time, Greg Minnaar, after all. Whether that heritage has built their trails, or vice versa, doesn’t really matter; two-wheeled travellers here are spoilt for
