Does anyone know the FKT from top to bottom of south Africa 🇿🇦?

[Gert van Wyk7]

Does anyone know the FKT from top to bottom of South Africa 🇿🇦?

[SwissVan]

If you like me and did not know wtf fyt means

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_known_time

 

Edited February 18, 2023 by SwissVan

[Gert van Wyk7]

34 minutes ago, SwissVan said:

If you like me and did not know wtf fyt means

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_known_time

 

Thanks 🙏 

[Tim Brink]

EDIT

 

Deleted wrong info, got into length of Africa not South Africa, in my excitement.

 

 

Edited February 18, 2023 by Tim Brink

[Fred van Vlaanderen]

5 minutes ago, Tim Brink said:

EDIT

 

Deleted wrong info, got into length of Africa not South Africa, in my excitement.

 

 

After seeing the time, did you think “mmhmmm, I could probably top that!”? Lol

[Gert van Wyk7]

I will let you know once I do. 

[Gert van Wyk7]

Just give me the time. 

[Gert van Wyk7]

2 hours ago, Tim Brink said:

EDIT

 

Deleted wrong info, got into length of Africa not South Africa, in my excitement.

 

 

Haha Thanks for trying to help Tim, much appreciated. 
 

[Gert van Wyk7]

5 hours ago, Fred van Vlaanderen said:

After seeing the time, did you think “mmhmmm, I could probably top that!”? Lol

I will let you know once I do. Just give me the time?

 

[Fred van Vlaanderen]

7 hours ago, Gert van Wyk7 said:

Does anyone know the FKT from top to bottom of South Africa 🇿🇦?

A better starting point to your question would be to determine what you view as top and bottom. After determining that, you can look for an answer.

[ChrisF]

23 minutes ago, Fred van Vlaanderen said:

A better starting point to your question would be to determine what you view as top and bottom. After determining that, you can look for an answer.

 

Was wondering the same thing .....

 

 

North South ... RED ?

 

Longest route .... BLUE ?

 

Ending in Cape Town or Cape L'Agulhas ?  Really should be the latter ...

 

 

Where do you start ?

 

 

PS - Couple of farmers have cycled from Kakamas down to Cape Town, 98% via gravel roads (helps when you know the farmers along the route).  They had a 9 day adventure.  Certainly was not a race for fastest time.  This was about 15 years ago.

 

 

Slight twist .... has anybody sircumnavigated South Africa on a bicycle ?  This is a thing amongst the motorcycle travelers .. .

Edited February 18, 2023 by ChrisF

[Gert van Wyk7]

50 minutes ago, ChrisF said:

 

Was wondering the same thing .....

 

 

North South ... RED ?

 

Longest route .... BLUE ?

 

Ending in Cape Town or Cape L'Agulhas ?  Really should be the latter ...

 

 

Where do you start ?

 

 

PS - Couple of farmers have cycled from Kakamas down to Cape Town, 98% via gravel roads (helps when you know the farmers along the route).  They had a 9 day adventure.  Certainly was not a race for fastest time.  This was about 15 years ago.

 

 

Slight twist .... has anybody sircumnavigated South Africa on a bicycle ?  This is a thing amongst the motorcycle travelers .. .

Thanks Chris. Me and a Friend wants to cycle the blue line and was wondering what the fastest known time was, because if we do it we can just as well try to do it the fastest. 
 

Going all around SA would be epic !! Maybe our next adventure 
 

 

[Mamil]

This chap may know 

https://m.facebook.com/100076387249892/

Can I come with?

 

[Frosty]

There was a guy that circumnavigated SA. I’m 99.99% sure it was mentioned on Bikehub.  Will see what I can dig up through a Google search.

[Tim Brink]

22 hours ago, Gert van Wyk7 said:

Haha Thanks for trying to help Tim, much appreciated. 
 

For me, FKT route would start at Beit Bridge border post - not geographically the northern most place, there are a few farms that are further north, but I think that's the northern-most publicly-accessible starting point, and finish at the cairn that demarcates the southern-most point/meeting of the oceans at Aghullas.

That's the easy bit.

The route is a lot more challenging. Plenty of bikes-banned freeways you will need to avoid, presuming this is a road/gravel bike expedition.

 

 

 

[Tim Brink]

17 minutes ago, Tim Brink said:

 

The route is a lot more challenging. Plenty of bikes-banned freeways you will need to avoid, presuming this is a road/gravel bike expedition.

 

 

 

Like, you might end up going through a big chunk of Botswana to make the routing through/past Gauteng simpler and faster.