Thermophage

No way, Pat's is betterer than the Glen. Raw and natural and oft times scary!

For sure, but you start making people more technically capable by building stuff to force them to use good/better technique. Some of the most rewarding, if not all of, have been trails like this. Where you're not scared or challenged from a roughness or steepness aspect, but simply from the fact that you are NOT riding your bike properly to get by. ANd when the pin drops...wow.

You 100% certainly can have a technical and challenging trail that is safe to ride. Consider corners which are flat and on an off camber without too much gradient as one simple example. Not dangerous but very difficult to ride that well.

Hahaha yeah I'm waiting for it. Feeling stuff already, but I kinda figure I've gotten better at ignoring it...so another 10 years of practice at ignoring it will go well surely.

Will this help? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VIWaBIiZKDR40HRcsJ1gvlQzSql9lf3h

The large jump line next to Lombards Terra at Bloemendal

Hahaha i'm 37 now and making sure I still get hurt a big...I think you just need practice at that too

Hmmm...come join us sometime. I have some recorded rides on strava, will that help? And yes, you literally can ride offroad from signal hill to Tokai without having to ride on tar much except for a portion on Tafelberg road (which you can circumvent). However, Signal hill to Tokai and return will be 80km+ ride. Here's one shorter ride where we started at Rhodem Mem and rode to Nixon's bike park (https://www.strava.com/activities/2203102142). That section has nothing too tech, but man it's beautiful and there are some sketchy bits too.

Come on 45 isn't old by any means!

Welllll...if you ride TMNP from Signal Hill side all the way to Tokai and back...I suspect you have similar amount of offroad riding you can do as compared to Tygerberg.

NAd one of the big ways you make it technical and fun and safe is to slow people down. Too many of the smooth descents allow one to get up to big dangerous speeds. Bloemendaaler for example is k@k dangerous if you come off there while on one of the straights.

Yep I also thought the jump to the wooden one was too large, but also that the gap between the wooden one at the skills park and then the ones on Trail Q was mahoosive ITO of skill and commitment needed to ride those. You need to be able to corner damn well on a flat corner to hit those comfortably. It's great!

Which nobody has ever asked for. Sorry, but that's also something major I and many others have a gripe with. We ask for more varied and tech trails. Not more DH lines. Tech trails can be green and blue no problem, and do not have to involve high speed or jumps or drops or even be sketchy. Sure it's hard to build, but surely that would clearly benefit the vast majority of the members and satisfy people looking to progress more too. Not building a black rated DH line (queue Flow Terra) only able to be ridden by a handful of people. But anyhoo, lemme be off for now, this is tiresome.

Yoh it's in red, must be NB. But no, what you said was "as you are clearly above riding a berm". Which would be idiotic to say.

look i typed a loooong reply, but maybe I shouldn't as clearly you like to read things into what I say. Nanny state was clearly directed towards the safety of MTB riders comment. Anyplace where someone else decides whether something is safe for you or not when you can decide yourself is a nanny state. As for berms? Where did you read that? I'll have you know I ride berms on every ride. Anyway, invite (even for you) still stands should you wanna come ride TM. Just remember your Activity Permit and climbing legs (because yes, us "pinners" (spit on that term) also go uphill...and quite a bloody lot).

Nanny-state much?

RSa is so full of BS with this. What's your average MTB rider with a spotlight going to do? You're not exactly hidden. Anyone wanting to do something suspicious or illegal is not going to be missioning around with a signal beacon. Well your okes loss. I basically never ride Tygerberg anymore, this is one of the main reasons (that and moving away from living on Majik forest). If you or anyone is ever keen for a night ride, ping us, we ride TM every Tue and Thu night. Great trails, few berms, interesting riding.

A weekly (sometimes unless it's too cold, or there was drizzle) night ride at Bloemendal only and ONLY on the Majik forest side, not on the other side either. TM night rides are absolutely stunning. The views from up top of Conties and or Hoogies must be amazing at night as well.

And the sunset rule. Night riding is the best kind of riding, and all that's really feasible for most people in the week in winter time out that way.

EXO is hond poo (for me at least). Even with a FOAMO I continually destroy them. Ordered a Hans Dampf Super Gravity. That Schwalbe sidewall casing is insanely strong

Good luck finding an Aggressor 2.5 WT DD in RSA.

Everything Moogle said yep. Bands in the shock. You wanna run it more sensitive at the top so bigger sag and bands will help. Then Maxxis tyres...great tread patterns, EXO is *** casing. And the Aggressor does not come in more than EXO in RSA thanks to Rush. I recently ordered the new Schwalbe Hans Dampf in SuperGravity casing from EasyBike. Currently running my old Mary in SG on the back without FOAMO or tyre insert and it's far far more reliable than my Aggressor with the FOAMO.

More importantly...when are you joining us for TM rides again after work you slacker? Also, have not had a Strava to Momentum sync issue.

+100. That needed to be said. Not everyone wants to suffer unnecessarily