Steilte Trails

[Guest Omega Man]

Is this what you had in mind for a drop-off zone?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp_CuPXapgs

Yup.

[NicoBoshoff]

 

Cameras notoriously ruin perspective of size, height etc. This gap is nuts. Not only the launch and gap, but the landing into berm is steeeeep! Count me impressed!

[Guest Omega Man]

Cameras notoriously ruin perspective of size, height etc. This gap is nuts. Not only the launch and gap, but the landing into berm is steeeeep! Count me impressed!

Ja that thing is way beyond my testicular threshold.

[Guest Omega Man]

Yes I know i was going slow. Super fun tho.

 

http://vimeo.com/78603370

Edited November 5, 2013 by Omega Man

[Guest Omega Man]

[Hairy]

Yes I know i was going slow. Super fun tho.

 

http://vimeo.com/78603370

Nice work ... yes you are going slow on the clip, yet still about 60 x faster than me.

 

The work being done on these trails are not going unnoticed based on conversations I have had with riders

[cspurdens81]

Hey guys... is there more than one DH line? I was on the trail for the first time today and only rode the DH line that was used in the WPDH race earlier in the year. I saw a couple of other guys shuttling to the top, but they never came down the same line as me. Where were they coming down? Cheers!

[Guest Omega Man]

Hey guys... is there more than one DH line? I was on the trail for the first time today and only rode the DH line that was used in the WPDH race earlier in the year. I saw a couple of other guys shuttling to the top, but they never came down the same line as me. Where were they coming down? Cheers!

There's another line on the Spanish farm side but that is NOT part of Steilte Trails and is illegal as far as I know. That was probably he Neehlings and Adi you saw shuttling.

[DR ◣◢]

 

The current line is totally rideable on trail mikes with a bit more travel than the normal XC bikes. All the major jumps have safer lines or are just rollable (i.e. ride over them without air).

 

Bottom line is the trail is a gnarly as you want it to be. Some of the gaps are insane, but you can just roll past them. The step down I pooped on is actually rollable at a snail's pace, but I just failed so hard.

 

Exactly what we need more of in Gauteng. Hopefully some new will spring up soon.

[Guest Omega Man]

This thread has gone quiet for a while but I spoke to Jan on the weekend and there are some SUPER exiting developments happening.

 

Jan, Jonty Neethling, Andrew Neethling and 2 local business men have formed a cc around the Steilte trails. Jonty is going to be employed as a full time trail builder. Andrew is going to be lending his reputation towards the project and the 2 business men are helping out with money and negotiating land access with the local farmers.

 

They are busy cutting new lines at the moment and as soon the sprinklers get turned on Jonty will start building features. The idea is that in addition to the current DH track there will be another 2 DH lines. One will be an A Liine style track with loads and loads of tables and sculpted berms. The other DH will be an Andrew Neethling "signature" dh track. Rough and Gnarly. There will also be multiple enduro lines and 2 short xc loops of 10km and 20km. There are also plans for a skills park with jumps, drops and ladder bridges.

 

The planned opening of the park is November. So I wouldn't go out and buy that HT 29er just yet. It's definitely an exiting time to be a mountain biker in the Cape.

 

Dare I use the words? Bike Park!

Edited February 12, 2014 by Omega Man

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

To add to omegas text there. .. I bumped into Jan last week in Somerset mall. He told me that Brendog was there over a few days and had a bit of input on the Trails, and the future features and lines etc. Properly exciting!

[TYGA]

Exciting times to be a MTBer in the Cape indeed. I hope the shuttle roads can survive the increase in traffic this is sure to bring, one or two of those corners are already pretty loose getting up there. Imagine a lift running shuttles up Helderberg...

[TAAHIRWP]

This thread has gone quiet for a while but I spoke to Jan on the weekend and there are some SUPER exiting developments happening.

 

Jan, Jonty Neethling, Andrew Neethling and 2 local business men have formed a cc around the Steilte trails. Jonty is going to be employed as a full time trail builder. Andrew is going to be lending his reputation towards the project and the 2 business men are helping out with money and negotiating land access with the local farmers.

 

They are busy cutting new lines at the moment and as soon the sprinklers get turned on Jonty will start building features. The idea is that in addition to the current DH track there will be another 2 DH lines. One will be an A Liine style track with loads and loads of tables and sculpted berms. The other DH will be an Andrew Neethling "signature" dh track. Rough and Gnarly. There will also be multiple enduro lines and 2 short xc loops of 10km and 20km. There are also plans for a skills park with jumps, drops and ladder bridges.

 

The planned opening of the park is November. So I wouldn't go out and buy that HT 29er just yet. It's definitely an exiting time to be a mountain biker in the Cape.

 

Dare I use the words? Bike Park!

 

 

Yoh!!! Moooiii!!!

[Guest Omega Man]

Imagine a lift running shuttles up Helderberg...

Someone may or may not have already started sourcing the funds for a 4x4 shuttle vehicle and 10 bike trailer...........

Edited February 12, 2014 by Omega Man

[Headshot]

Sounds superb - well done guys. Just cancelled that 29er Ht order I had going and put a deposit down on a new Glory ( kidding - I wish )

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Tim - Julien Louw has a medium Glory frame and shock going for 5k...