Riding Tokai Alone on Weekends

[Odin775]

After reading this https://www.bikehub.co.za/features/_/articles/routes-trails/tokai-trails-one-year-crime-free-r7797, I wondered is it safe to ride the Tokai trails alone over weekends?

[DJR]

After reading this https://www.bikehub.co.za/features/_/articles/routes-trails/tokai-trails-one-year-crime-free-r7797, I wondered is it safe to ride the Tokai trails alone over weekends?

I thought the article spelled it out pretty clearly

[Jewbacca]

Isn't that article promoting just how safe Tokai has become?

 

I'm a little confused

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Perfectly safe. Past incidents were mainly as a result of a few undesirables coming up from Imizamo Yethu near Hout bay, over the mountain and making a quick getaway back into the rabbit warren of IY. Was stopped thanks to increased security measures and active patrolling, as well as co-ordinated searches between Mountain Men security & SAPS & Tokai MTB. There weren't many incidents at all, but even one is too much. 

[Thermophage]

Yep that's exactly what it is promoting

Place is super safe, it's ONLY occasionally when doing the mast climb that people used to have some issues.

 

Isn't that article promoting just how safe Tokai has become?

 

I'm a little confused

[Bloukrans]

Yep that's exactly what it is promoting

Place is super safe, it's ONLY occasionally when doing the mast climb that people used to have some issues.

Agreed.

 

Any comment about Tygerberm trails?

[Jewbacca]

Yep that's exactly what it is promoting

Place is super safe, it's ONLY occasionally when doing the mast climb that people used to have some issues.

I was just confused by the thread... It's a little like reading an article saying how healthy Broccoli is for you, the asking the forum 'After reading this, it made me wonder, is Broccoli healthy for me?'

 

Maybe that's just me though! 

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Agreed.

 

Any comment about Tygerberm trails?

Yes, but not pertaining to security...

[Thermophage]

Agreed.

 

Any comment about Tygerberm trails?

Do you want to say something? Seems perhaps your troll'ness does

[porqui]

Many ride Tokai on their own.

 

Is it safe? Define safe.

 

Could you have an incident? Yes.

What is the likelihood?

 

It is only when you have experienced an issue that you realise that it can actually happen.

[Headshot]

To the OP - I think you're probably more at risk travelling such a long way every wekend to ride at Tokai. The roads between here and Centurion are dangerous. That said we're very happy you rate the trails at Tokai so highly you make such a huge effort... 

[babse]

did you read further than the first paragraph? 

[splat]

I was just confused by the thread... It's a little like reading an article saying how healthy Broccoli is for you, the asking the forum 'After reading this, it made me wonder, is Broccoli healthy for me?'

 

Maybe that's just me though! 

 

Then there is this thread...

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/181645-how-many-hubbers-still-using-bikehub/

[Dirt Tracker]

I've been riding alone there for 10+ years without an issue. Well, a security issue anyway, I've got many issues but that isn't one of them! 

[Chingy182]

Agreed.

 

Any comment about Tygerberm trails?

I think I can only recall one incident on a weekday morning of someone placing a wire across the path on Bloemendaaler.

 

Other than than a few kids vandalizing signs at the Fair Cape loop and a few spykers on the ground.

 

Never heard of any other incident on the trails themselves before.

[Dirt Tracker]

The Glen has been a bit spicy in the last 12 months with militant dog walkers, logs, some tacks and a couple of wire incidents.