Vlei Park Or Thaba Trails - Which is more Technical

[the nerd]

Rode loop B today and its great as ever. Tomorrow will probably do wendells way and skip A and B

[Pikey]

Rode loop B today and its great as ever. Tomorrow will probably do wendells way and skip A and B

how long does loop b take ? Do u ride all of it?

[the nerd]

I'm not sure how long it takes ha ha I just ride.. no timing but depending on time restraints we sometimes do a little d tour. I will share the strava file and you can see what I mean.

[the nerd]

Yeah I ride 95% of it. A couple of the climbs my fitness runs out of me.

[Pikey]

Really damn I've done loop b once long ago and walked half of it. Didn't make it up heartbreak hill :-/

[the nerd]

It muuuuuch better now. Wendell has focused on making the trails more rideable but not dumbing them down.

[Black_Knight]

Okay so i did vlei park this weekend as i had my miss's wirh me and it was her first trail ride, it was nice on green i took all thw blue slips and about 10km in got a gash in my tyer so i walked it back ha ha, next weekend im gonna hit thaba.

[Pikey]

Okay so i did vlei park this weekend as i had my miss's wirh me and it was her first trail ride, it was nice on green i took all thw blue slips and about 10km in got a gash in my tyer so i walked it back ha ha, next weekend im gonna hit thaba.

ditto me to.

[awesme]

Lets try this again...

 

Thaba for me can be as un technical (just up and downs on Jeep or single track) as you want it to be by sticking to the Green route (The most technical section on green is probably the fire station section, rest is easy)

 

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As technical as you want it by adding the blue sections like: Loop A, Loop B, Wendell's way etc.

 

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[awesme]

This on the new Ride?

 

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how long does loop b take ? Do u ride all of it?

 

[awesme]

I call the section after Twin Towers (Straight up to the gate): Chinese Brick Road to the Moon.

 

It's good on the lungs.

 

Another way to get to the gate is of course to turn right at the top of Wendell's way, and then follow that entire route, to technical for me, but what I do do is go right, then when I get to the brick road I turn right again and go to the top/gate.

 

 

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That's it Wendell's way nxt time at thaba :-))
Checked a guy go up there yesterday while I was waiting for my Mates at the top of twin towers...looks like a long old slog uphill as I watched him zig zag up the hill.. :-(( Really hope the down hill is worth the suffering ;-)

[Pikey]

Yea most definetly ,gonna have a go either this wk or wkd. Might try flats instead of cleats?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Pikey]

Very keen to try Wendell's way,might be to tech for me to. Soon gonna find out.

[Black_Knight]

yeah I been up there a few times there is also a part of the down hill track by the chines brick road, im keen to take that jump but im sure its ether gonna be amazing or a fail video for the net ha ha.

[Pikey]

I dig the thought of doing jumps and getting air time ....but sure it's gonna end in tears.

 

 

As for the yellow brick road,after busting a gut up twin towers....damn

[Pikey]

I call the section after Twin Towers (Straight up to the gate): Chinese Brick Road to the Moon.

 

It's good on the lungs.

 

Another way to get to the gate is of course to turn right at the top of Wendell's way, and then follow that entire route, to technical for me, but what I do do is go right, then when I get to the brick road I turn right again and go to the top/gate.

 

 

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how difficult is Wendell's way compared to yafta and Lawrence ( last section in loop A ) Lawrence is not really difficult it's just when it's the last section of loop a and yr exhausted.