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This. No excuses for hurting someone but also failing to comply with a lawful instruction is just asking for trouble.

No he wasn't, SANParks looked into the whole saga and the outcome was he was reinstated. I don't know how they reached that decision but can only guess that they must have been pretty confident in their position to do so.

There was an attempted bikejacking near Peddlers on the Bend section of the greenbelt yesterday at roughly 07.45hrs. Luckily it sounds like the thieves were the reincarnation of the three stooges and it ended up with the bike recovered and two of them arrested. I wasn't there so this isn't a first hand account but but what transpired was roughly - Female cyclist was cornered when a car drove straight at her down the dirt road that passes the stables. Three pieces of human excrement got out and one grabbed her bike and tried to ride off. It was an ebike and it wasn't charged... He was going nowhere slowly at this point, and from this point on their elaborate plan began to unravel somewhat. The rider screamed her lungs out and POS 2 & 3 promptly jumped back in their car only to stall it. The car then refused to start so they panicked and got out. At this point another rider grabbed the car keys. Around this point the guy on the bike was discovering just how heavy an uncharged ebike was and gave up trying to ride it away and attempted to hide it in a hedge, which he was apparently too weak to manage so he gave up and ran away. In the meantime the cops and security had arrived and they found and arrested the two that abandoned the car. The bike was returned to the rider and by all accounts she is completely fine. A win for the good guys for once.

Really? Just about every section of the park is free for runners, with one or two exceptions, not one section is free for cycling. Idiotic is cyclists having to pay in all the park when other user groups are allowed free access. And it's not like the funds raised go towards improving the trails or mitigating any impact cycling has on the environment.

Yes and no. Sort of. In Tokai they take their vehicle to the trailhead and are met by Tokaimtb volunteers who take the paramedics to the scene of the accident. The paramedics then make a call as to the best way to remove the patient (this is often just a case of travelling down with Tokaimtb but has led to 4x4 recovery vehicles being brought in once or twice and on the odd occasion a helicopter is called in). So far this has worked well and improves response times greatly.

Tokaimtb. As a small sample - since 20th December four injured riders have been recovered and assisted after calling the emergency number (0870 590 000). Last year around forty riders were assisted.

Try - https://www.eselfontein.co.za/ May be as close as you will get to what you are looking for.

That number has changed to 087 133 1438 since Euphoria Telkom offered to sponsor the emergency call costs.

The simple answer is yes it should be okay, there are lots of lone riders around during the day. The biggest danger is possibly crashing when alone. Tokaimtb has an emergency number to call if you have any problems or see something that worries you - 087 133 1438 - and help is normally only a few minutes away.

Tokai isn't really blessed with clay, it's mostly sandy soil. There are one or two bands of clay and any that ends up as run off or clogging drainage on the jeep track gets gathered up and used to line the trails in high wear areas. Areas of trail that take a lot of strain are mostly rock lined or a combination of rock and clay is used. I honestly can't say that e-bikes have added to the wear and tear in any significant way,

What a strange post, you couldn't find the cycling related posts because all the off topic posts in a completely separate area of the site got in the way? What a weird little post.

And it's baiting like this that is the reason we no longer have a place to discuss these things here.

Both are excellent, no wrong choice there. Add 'Better Call Saul' to your list if you haven't already seen it.

Quite the hero...

4x4 Forum has some decent threads on the subject with some added bonus River Rat content.

By all accounts they were offered a bit of a rubbish choice, finish it there and then or at lunchtime the following day. Not so much requesting to play as picking the least worst alternative.

True but then they shouldn't be on here crying about cycling being excessively priced if they are ignoring entry level and staring at a top end super bike.

Not at the moment unfortunately, for a couple of reasons - The vehicle and staff spend a good part of each weekend parked in strategic spots on the mountain on the lookout for any potential criminals trying their luck and in the event of an accident or injury they have to attend to that - this Sunday there was a bad crash on DH1 that led to the staff spending two hours co-ordinating the extraction of the injured rider (everything turned out well in the end). The next reason is a happier one - the trails are so busy on weekends at the moment if we closed one for a build day we may start a riot. That said we are conscious of the fact that people really do want to be involved so will see if we can come up with a plan to make something happen.

To be fair - 1. I struggled to remember the timelines and I was in some of the meetings that led to the opening of the trails, so it's easy to get a bit confused over the when, where and what of the whole mess. 2. Everybody is entitled to an opinion. 3. If there is one thing the hub does well it's flogging a very deceased horse.

I'm pretty sure all the mess with people getting arrested etc started in 2015 and the trail was finally opened in 2016. This thread may offer some clues -

???? This aged well...

I think you may be getting your dates wrong here. People were busted there around the start of June 2015 but the process was still very much running, I have the minutes from a meeting from 15 June 2015 that show that site visits were still to be completed and the public participation process had not even started. Someone jumped the gun when they said the place was open for riding.

Where and when was this? The only thing that I know of that comes close to this was when a mtb representative announced The Cork Tree trail (I think) was opening while it was still under discussion between The Table Mountain Mountain Bike Forum and SANParks, but had absolutely not been opened at that point and it would be many months before it was as all the proposed trails had to go through a public participation exercise first.

This really is ridiculous and I cannot see what the resultant mess was supposed to achieve. It winds me up no end when people create a new line by riding around an obstacle (if you can't complete an obstacle then use the 'B' line or, better still, go ride a trail you are comfortable on) but this is next level.

But, but, but there is a process and plan. And he has amazing hair.