Oliver Williams

You must've been the kid in the Maties kit? really well ridden - impressive to stay out in front for those long turns, towing an old timer like me builds character!

Loved this route design compared to 2010 - I think Dryland have found a winning recipe. Provides great balance for all riders prepared to go the distance - from racers to aspirational newcomers. CPT delivered on it's promise.

In the old days (I'm talking Tokai here) you rode up the road to get it over with as quickly as possible, and have a chat on the way, and rode down the singletrack for the fun of it, which was the point of going mountain biking in the first place. You rode up one or two steep link sections for a proper technical challenge, and see if you could do what your mates couldn't, and that was enough of that sort of fun. If you want to practise your 'riding up technical singletrack skills' then do so when nobody else is around, or at the very least, be vigilant, and give way to the rider coming down (apologising profusely if you get in the way). Why on earth put time and effort into building singletrack for people to ride up it?! I think it's a silly debate, and the only way to resolve it seriously is to have dedicated 'up' singletrack and dedicated 'down' singletrack i.e. one-way traffic where 'passing right' means passing right. Ask Meurant and beneficiaries (us) how much budget to allocate to building 'up' singletrack, and get votes to decide which proportion should be 'up'. Most races / rides worth doing do not aim to please riders wanting to ride up singletrack. Right way of way for the person coming up makes sense for 4x4 vehicles on jeep tracks, but not for mountain bikes on singletrack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass last Friday of every month in slaapstad

CT ride was super chilled - thanks all! my first and good fun. Missed coffee but at least I got some mtb'ing in on the way home. Will have to get my ss project sorted (outsourced!) for next time...

I'm keen - will make a plan

I work would have to take the morning off although not a bad reason to do so - when is the next one? maybe give a bit more notice next time...anybody riding back to southern suburbs?

I can definitely identify my Zula pleased with the pic post regardless - thanks!

me - think I finished after Luke Boris in the Club 100 list?

hey, that's me! cool - I'm famous - nice one

The Blockhouse TT every Tuesday at 17h30 (17h45 in spring / summer) is also worth doing: http://www.theblockhouse.co.za/ starts top of Vredehoek cnr Chelmsford and Pinoak

Morewood Zula ticks all those boxes, and the frame design is the coolest B)

what if there is only 1 way up and 1 way down? I say play chicken. The guy with the most expensive bike will always swerve out. you mean the guy with carbon bike

Riders coming down singletrack always have right of way end of story - as far as I'm concerned singletrack is designed to be ridden down! and if you obstruct someone bombing down singeletrack you are spoiling the track and are simply in the way. I do ride up sections of singletrack in Tokai, mainly because everyone else is doing it! and of course it's more interesting and good practice. But I'm still conscious of being 'in the way' of downhill traffic. Some singletrack I consider off-limits for climbing e.g. Vasbyt or whatever it's called - that top section.

Morewood Zula