Sheesh, you made me go to google and go look - and seeing the map and roads bring back so many memories. Take the bike and head out onto high street, which becomes Main (Westdene cycles was not at that site, it was in Fordsburg in those days). Head all the way onto ondekkers, turn down hendrick potgieter (the checkers hyper was on the left). Coming down the hill was always a case of getting the timing right to catch the robots (now I see they have a by bass). Then head all the way past the gardens to onto Sterkfontein Caves. And then you head all the way back. On a solid stainless steel steed. With two bottles of water. We were young and fearless or young and stupid. Took almost the entire day to do that. No wonder my folks loved weekends. They never saw me! The horrible one was to head down past the brixton tower, turn left at the bottom towards RAU (now UJ) and then go down the steep hill through Melville towards the bottom of the koppies, then onto Beyers Naude (cant remember the old name). Those rolling hills were a killer! Coming back up that hill into Melville and then the Brixton tower .. eina. And then they built Cresta and traffic increased and that was that.
