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Event Name: Moonlight Critical mass #moonlightmass When: 19 February 2019 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: Road 20h15 departure from the sunken traffic circle by the stadium Join us as we make our way along the promenade, to the Seapoint pool pavilion and back, through the waterfront and up Long street, returning via the fan walk. https://www.facebook.com/events/371153633680021/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Moonloight Mass 31 March When: 31 March 2018 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: Road Tomorrow eve is #moonlightmass ! https://www.facebook.com/events/180047969289282/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Moonlight Mass When: 11 April 2017 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: Road Hey All, it's #moonlightmass again on Tuesday eve. bring your bike, bring your flags and banners and vuvuzelas and lights and lets make some noise this time. :-) https://www.facebook.com/events/752876681539616/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Moonlight Mass When: 12 March 2017 Where: Moonlight Mass, Western Cape Category: Road it's almost time for #moonlightmass again! https://www.facebook.com/events/630983320426291/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Moonlight Mass When: 11 February 2017 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: Road This Saturday it's #moonlightmass again Jazz up yourselves and your bikes and join us! https://www.facebook.com/events/1780982972214049/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Supermoon #moonlightmass When: 14 November 2016 Where: #moonlightmass, Western Cape Category: Road We will meet under the circle next to the Greenpoint Stadium. gather at 9pm and leave at 9:15 to take over the streets for the evening. Bring lights and dress for the occasion! Coffee and drinks at Baran's afterwards #moonlightmass #moonlightcriticalmass #supermoon Go to Event Page

He's been doing it for years. It must take him about an hour! He must be super paranoid about safety - and a bit "special"

Hey guys - #moonlighmass is on again next Saturday the 21st https://www.facebook.com/events/233724050332370/

Event Name: #moonlightmass - Now At 8pm For Winter When: 21 May 2016 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: Road We will meet under the circle next to the Greenpoint Stadium. gather at 8pm and leave at 8:15 to take over the streets for the evening. Bring lights and dress for the occasion! Coffee and drinks at Baran's afterwards #moonlightmass #moonlightcriticalmass Go to Event Page

Event Name: #moonlightmass When: 22 April 2016 Where: Cape Town Stadium, Western Cape Category: MTB Hey All, us in the Cape have #moonlightmass this Friday - spread the word https://www.facebook.com/events/1606455666342415/ Go to Event Page

Event Name: Moonlight Mass When: 23 March 2016 Where: Greenmarket Square, Western Cape Category: Road The famous #moonlightmass is alive and well. come 9pm, 23 March under the circle opposite the Cape Town Stadium Go to Event Page

Event Name: Critical Mass Cape Town Cycle Tour Edition When: 4 March 2016 Where: Greenmarket Square, Western Cape Category: Road This is a Critical Mass ride to cater for all the visitors for the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Meet on Greenmarket Square opposite Cafe Sante at 6:45pm Go to Event Page

A Happy Rant about bike, awesome weather & happy times. Church Square, 6pm Friday 28th - behind Groote Kerk on Adderley St Critical Mass is a worldwide movement to enhance bicycle usage, democratize streets, and have fun on the most efficient, cheapest, and most accessible transport medium ever conceived. The Cape Town CM, along with CMs in Johannesburg, Durban, and some other areas in South Africa, takes place on the last Friday of the every month. Meet at Church Square behind Groote Kerk at 6pm Friday 28 for a leisurely ride off to Sea Point through the Green Point Urban Park, then Sea Point Boulevard to the end and back to Greenpoint for refreshments. In the spirit of Critical Mass everything is open to interpretation on the night Please RSVP in the Events section and / or at at https://www.facebook...87497731472751/

Church Square, 6pm Friday 28th - behind Groote Kerk on Adderley St Critical Mass is a worldwide movement to enhance bicycle usage, democratize streets, and have fun on the most efficient, cheapest, and most accessible transport medium ever conceived. The Cape Town CM, along with CMs in Johannesburg, Durban, and some other areas in South Africa, takes place on the last Friday of the every month. Meet at Church Square behind Groote Kerk at 6pm Friday 28 for a leisurely ride off to Sea Point through the Green Point Urban Park, then Sea Point Boulevard to the end and back to Greenpoint for refreshments. In the spirit of Critical Mass everything is open to interpretation on the night Please RSVP at https://www.facebook...87497731472751/

Event Name: Critical Mass Cape Town When: 28 March 2014 Where: Greenmarket Square, Western Cape Category: Road Critical Mass is a worldwide movement to enhance bicycle usage, democratize streets, and have fun on the most efficient, cheapest, and most accessible transport medium ever conceived. The Cape Town CM, along with CMs in Johannesburg, Durban, and some other areas in South Africa, takes place on the last Friday of the every month. Meet at Greenmarket Square at 7pm for a leisurely ride off to Sea Point through the Green Point Urban Park, then Sea Point Boulevard to the end and back to Greenpoint for refreshments. In the spirit of Critical Mass everything is open to interpretation on the night Please RSVP at https://www.facebook...87497731472751/ or here Go to Event Page

How about a commuting bike? Road and Mountain bikes are not suited to riding in your suit and tie.

http://www.camissabicycles.co.za/2012/11/cape-town-urban-bicycle-expo-mark-your.html Friday 14 December 2012 between 14h00 and 20h00 sees the first ever Cape Town Urban Bicycle Expo at The Palms Lifestyle and Decor Centre, 145 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. From fixies, vintage to folding bikes, maps, helmets, bags, e-bikes - there will be a full range of urban bicycling options there for you to see and experience. Pop in, take a test ride, have a beer - it promises to be great afternoon.

h Hehe. If I went left I would end up on the N2 :-) How do you indicate "straight" on a bicycle? I reckon I am happier sharing Albert Road with taxis. Maybe I should go slower down there, tempting as it is to feel the wind and hear the tyres humming.

What do you guys think about coming out of Pinelands where Forest Drive becomes Raapenberg? I do it but I worry about my kids who do not yet have road sense. Once you get to Mowbray or Rondebosch you are pretty much OK again.

I would love to cycle more, but I work near where my daughters go to school aroud Rondebosch / Newlands main Road. Coming out of Pinelands down the dual carriageway with two offramps to the N2 where people often misjudge how fast I am going can be scary. One really has to trust that nothing goes wrong, knowing that without the metal box around me at best I would end up badly bruised and scraped. Falling on tar at 30 to 40km/h cannot be good for you. I am kind of prepared to do this by myself, but with my 11 and 13yo daughters? Not so much. We could ride along the pavement but the pedestrian crossing there is not so great either. So then what? It is frustrating. That painted stripe down the side of the road does nothing for my peace of mind. Once you reach Rondebosch Common it is all fine with proper cycle lanes and quiet side roads pretty much all the way. There is a cycle lane going in on Albert Road Woodstock but the kids will probably be finished school before we get a cycle lane out of Pinelands.

Boda-Boda - bicycle taxi in Kenya http://bikeblogbook.blogspot.com/2012/04/bicycle-taxi-in-kenya.html http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2zK_50LmKBU/T3nW4laxloI/AAAAAAAAHGE/2nw7S6S0u2s/s400/81_bicycle_taxis_image2_673_500_90.jpeg

Perhaps a little of this might make it seem more cool http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6988467965_1ca42a6f38_c_d.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6951901793_f8a0b50e75_z_d.jpg

Dutch style Opa en Omafietse are not retro. They are standard in the civilized world, where dynamo powered lights are mandated by law and people cycle to work in suits and dresses and high heels. http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/

Cheers lloydkayak, I'll look in to side roads. To be honest I feel safer bombing down Albert Road Woodstock in peak traffic with a lane to myself as the traffic is pretty slow, than I do on that part of Campground Road where there is not enough place for a car to overtake a bike safely if there is oncoming traffic - which there usually is. As for confidence, for me it needed a crisis like having stuff to do without a car to get me out there. And you are right. Around town bikes are just as fast as cars if you include parking. I raced my wife to the Biscuit Mill the other day - she in a car, me on my old school Dutch Opafiets. I got there first, by about 30 seconds. And rain? No problem. Put on a raincoat, ffs. I do not get any wetter on a bike than walking. As for breaking a sweat, never having cycled a race in my life I do not ride very fast. GPS on my phone says I average around 20km/h.

And yes, we do have a bike room. It only has room for 6 or maybe 7 bikes though.