PPA Ride for Your Life, an awareness ride. Sat at 6:30

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PPA RIDE FOR YOUR LIFE AWARENESS RIDE

Saturday 8 March 2014

06h45

VENUE: Maiden's Cove, Camps Bay

 

Join us on Saturday morning for the PPA Ride for Your Life, an awareness ride to focus attention on cyclists' safety. There will also be a moment's silence to commemorate cyclists who have lost their lives on the roads in the past year.

 

For maximum impact, we need as many cyclists to attend as possible, so we urge you to support this initiative. We appeal to all cyclists to show your support for the safe cycling campaign by wearing your PPA "1.5m" safe cycling jersey for this ride.

 

Coffee will be on sale at Maiden's Cove from 06h30, with the ride starting at 07h00.

 

Safe cycling jerseys will be on sale at the venue from 06h15-09h30. The jerseys cost only R200 each, as, in the interest of safe cycling, PPA is subsidising each jersey by R100.

 

There is no fixed route: The furthest turning point is the lookout point on Chapman's Peak, but you can turn around sooner, provided it is safe to do so. You are also welcome to simply ride along with the group for a short while as part of your pre-Cycle Tour leg loosener and then continue along your own route (but please still wear your safe cycling jersey). ThinkBike marshals and traffic officers will assist en route, but there are no route markers and limited point marshals.

 

Back at the venue, breakfast rolls, coffee and pancakes will be on sale until 09h30.

 

As this is a safety awareness ride, we urge all cyclists to ride in a responsible manner, keeping well left of the median line, and to obey all traffic rules and stop at red robots and stop streets. No helmet, no ride. There will be no timing or medals for this ride.

 

PARKING: There is limited parking available at Maiden's Cove. Please note that NO parking is available at the Glen Country Club. There is parking available near Clifton 4th Beach, alongside the road, near Camps Bay High School, and in Camps Bay. We also recommend that cyclists park in Sea Point or even Hout Bay and cycle through to the start.

 

 

 

CYCLISTS STAY ALIVE AT 1.5m

[DJR]

I'll be there with team DJR, and we promise not to misbehave!

[LeTurbo]

And then it's the World Naked Bike Ride at 10:00, so you can get in a whole morning's cycling.