[Event] Ry hom Kwagga! aka Leeuwenboschfontein 16 to 18 Dec 2022

[knippie]

Event Name: Ry hom Kwagga! aka Leeuwenboschfontein
When: 16 to 18 Dec 2022
Where: Leeuwenboschfontein Guest Farm,
Category: Mountain Bike

 

End of the year mountain bike makietie

Different and Unique

It is end of the year…all you want to do is get away from the office, let your hair down, ride your bike and braai with your buddies….RIGHT!?

So do we!!….

We have designed something different with this in mind.  It is dirt cheap and you will still get to have fun with no worries.

See more info on the Makadas website on how we can do it for so dirt cheap

!!!DIRT CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!!!

 

Ry Hom Kwagga is a mountain bike event with a twist. It is set in the Agterveld region, Montagu, Touwsriver area. This is the Klein Karoo at it’s best, vast expanses, clean air, the sound and smells of the veld, stars so close you can almost touch it. Look further and expand your horizons, this allows you to breathe and dream again.

This event is just a fun mountain bike event featuring great trails. The trails traverses 7 farms most of which is still practices full time farming with guest accommodation and expanding on mountain bike and hiking trails.

The trails are 80% good jeep track and the shorter distances are completely non technical. The longer distance has a bit more “technical” riding and suitable for those that can manage a blue graded trail. Every stage has two distances to choose from.

The trails we chose for this event runs through farms ranging from cattle to sheep but with an outlook of hospitality and bringing nature back into balance. On one of the farms, Middelberg Guest Farm you might spot the Kwaggas and if you look closely you will see stripes disappearing from the back side like the original Quagga.

E Bikes are welcome!

Three stages for R500

Stage One:  53 or 70km  @Ezelsjacht & Middelberg Guest Farm

Stage Two:  50 or 60km  @Sandvlei & Kopbeenskloof        

Stage Three:  46km (Zebra trail) or 50km (Bokmakierie 4km singletrack) @Driekuilen

Start for all distances: 7am

Remember to book your spitbraai for Friday night!

 

Go to Event Page.

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by knippie
Event updated

[cat-i]

Entered! After mostly running this year, it's time to get back on a bicycle. Looking forward!

[cat-i]

Magnificent event! Due to torrential rain we could not ride the middle day - which was just as well, the distances sounded short but was proper mountain biking.

 

Day 1 (16 December) was 65 km with about 700m of climbing. The first 15k was fast and flat on gravel road; then we turned onto jeeptrack that effectively became singletrack after the downpours of the previous week. It was a long (15km?) slog often sandy climb. We had plenty of jelly tots, bar ones and coke at the 30-ish km waterpoint where we had to decide between the long and short route.  Decided that we will take our chances with the brewing storm. A bit of dirt road, then some technical gravel climbing matched by a downhill that would have been a lot faster if I spent more time on my bike the few months before! The last bit was very beautiful jeeptrack (washed away by the rain, so technically singletrack). We caught the last few of the short distance photo-riders, and arrived at Leeuwenboschfontein just in time to set up our camp before the storm.

The evening we enjoyed the spit-braai put together by the race organisers. Unfortunately the afternoon's rain washed away the routes that we were supposed to ride the next day, so the whole stage got cancelled. We slept late, braaied, read books, and hiked on the farm. 

Stage 3 was 64km with 1150m of ascent. The first 5 km was on the same flat fast gravelroad of the first day, then we turned towards Montagu 9the other Oubergpas) and into a reserve/farm for the first wake-up climb of the day. Saw kwagga (down on the farmyard with the sheep) and later some Eland. A magnificent downhill, then onto a farmyard (at about 30km) whee we had to again choose between long and short. It was a long climb till the escarpment, and once on teh top, a bit more climbing. BUT the views were magnificent!!  Some jeeptrack on top, then down with a gnarly-ish downhill back to the waterpoint on the farm yard (now at about 54km). Climbing for the day not done yet; a short climb on the kwagga-loop, and then out of the farm gates and on to the gravel road for the slight uphill slog of about 4 kms back to Leeuwenboschfontein.

Some observations:

- Dont be fooled by the relative short distances. This is proper mountain biking. This is why you have a montain bike!

- There was a few e-bikes. Although I never read all the threads about whether e-bikes should be allowed on a mountain, I certainly can see the appeal.

- The format of camping and riding from the same place worked well. Loved the spitbraai on the first evening, just to meet the other riders and chat a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cabous9]

Wow, that look and sound great. @cat-i do you maybe know if they going to host it again this year?

[Shebeen]

10 hours ago, cat-i said:

Magnificent event! Due to torrential rain we could not ride the middle day - which was just as well, the distances sounded short but was proper mountain biking.

 

Day 1 (16 December) was 65 km with about 700m of climbing. The first 15k was fast and flat on gravel road; then we turned onto jeeptrack that effectively became singletrack after the downpours of the previous week. It was a long (15km?) slog often sandy climb. We had plenty of jelly tots, bar ones and coke at the 30-ish km waterpoint where we had to decide between the long and short route.  Decided that we will take our chances with the brewing storm. A bit of dirt road, then some technical gravel climbing matched by a downhill that would have been a lot faster if I spent more time on my bike the few months before! The last bit was very beautiful jeeptrack (washed away by the rain, so technically singletrack). We caught the last few of the short distance photo-riders, and arrived at Leeuwenboschfontein just in time to set up our camp before the storm.

The evening we enjoyed the spit-braai put together by the race organisers. Unfortunately the afternoon's rain washed away the routes that we were supposed to ride the next day, so the whole stage got cancelled. We slept late, braaied, read books, and hiked on the farm. 

Stage 3 was 64km with 1150m of ascent. The first 5 km was on the same flat fast gravelroad of the first day, then we turned towards Montagu 9the other Oubergpas) and into a reserve/farm for the first wake-up climb of the day. Saw kwagga (down on the farmyard with the sheep) and later some Eland. A magnificent downhill, then onto a farmyard (at about 30km) whee we had to again choose between long and short. It was a long climb till the escarpment, and once on teh top, a bit more climbing. BUT the views were magnificent!!  Some jeeptrack on top, then down with a gnarly-ish downhill back to the waterpoint on the farm yard (now at about 54km). Climbing for the day not done yet; a short climb on the kwagga-loop, and then out of the farm gates and on to the gravel road for the slight uphill slog of about 4 kms back to Leeuwenboschfontein.

Some observations:

- Dont be fooled by the relative short distances. This is proper mountain biking. This is why you have a montain bike!

- There was a few e-bikes. Although I never read all the threads about whether e-bikes should be allowed on a mountain, I certainly can see the appeal.

- The format of camping and riding from the same place worked well. Loved the spitbraai on the first evening, just to meet the other riders and chat a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mitzi knows how to put on a good makietie!

[cat-i]

6 hours ago, Cabous9 said:

Wow, that look and sound great. @cat-i do you maybe know if they going to host it again this year?

Yes, they do. I thought I received a mailer with the 2023 dates but can't find it on their website. Bet is probably to subscribe to their newsletter or find them on facebook. Hoping to do it again this year, but will train a bit more than just a flat 50 km twice a week for 3 weeks!

[cat-i]

Missed it in the email, but saw the advert today on Facebook. Klein Karoo Commotion, 16-19 December. Will be a two-day event, but seems very much like this one we did in 2022. 

Looking forward!

 

https://makadasadventures.co.za/comotion/