Where has your bike taken you today?

[BSG]

I've been promising myself a few times that I am going to ride here, but this year it's on my bucket list as a to do ride.

 

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[Eddy Gordo]

One thing, there is single track for days, but Just when you think wow, this is awesome, you hit with a climb to exit the lower trails.

 

 

 

I was seriously getting parched, I was starting tot get moody as I wanted to get back. At one point the trail looped over itself and I could of kicked myself for not taking that turn as I came back to it 10 min later.

 

 

 

Eventually I made it back, just after 10am. Almost crawled into the reception area, parked my bike and asked the lady, " something xtremely ice cold or lots of ice and the biggest glasss you have please"

LOL she must of thought I was crazy, but I had a delicious milkshake from them and 2 complimentary glasses of ice lemon water. 

 

Trail Park done and dusted. Went to collect the wife and kid and spent the rest of the day in knysna, Sedgfield and Buffels Bay beach toilet break for a surf.

 

 

 Got back to the digs just before sunset packed the car and we planned to leave around 6am, little did they know. LOL

 

I think I must have woken around 4h00am, checked the time, told my wife lets go!!!

We were on the road 4h45 andf arrived home 10h00.

 

 All in all a lekker weekend. 

The trail park rocks, I am looking forward to doing it again, but I will take my AM HT instead.

 

Did I mention, I have about 2hrs of video footage, I have no Idea how I am gonna edit this.

Edited January 7, 2018 by Eddy Gordo

[bertusras]

I also visited GRTP over the holidays. Ho. Ly. Balls. What a hoot!
 

 

[Duane_Bosch]

Nice one boys. The trail park is AMAZING. A truly great place to ride a bike.

 

We always try to rent the trail house for 2 nights and go up with a crew of 8. Leave early Friday morning. On the bikes by lunch. Ride whole of Saturday. Sunday morning. Leave at 1. Home by 7pm Sunday eve.

[GLuvsMtb]

As I was riding this introduction to the trail park, I wondered what happened to the loop of doom, "hmm didnt see it at the reception area, maybe it was taken down"

 

where to now, I forgot to take note of the map in my quest for a water solution. fortunately the weather was awesome.

 

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Enjoyed your rendition of GRTP. We booked the cottage (just below the loop) between Christmas and New Year with friends (earlier last year we booked over Easter as well).

With the addition of a back packers at the trail center it provides even more accommodation options for GRTP riders and Cross Cape riders as well.

This is fast becoming the premier mtb destination in SA.

 

 

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[Eddy Gordo]

I've been promising myself a few times that I am going to ride here, but this year it's on my bucket list as a to do ride.

 

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Do it, I just got tired on waiting on other people and plans never forth coming. So jumped in last minute. I rode it alone, it was awesome!!!!!

[Eddy Gordo]

Enjoyed your rendition of GRTP. We booked the cottage (just below the loop) between Christmas and New Year with friends (earlier last year we booked over Easter as well).

With the addition of a back packers at the trail center it provides even more accommodation options for GRTP riders and Cross Cape riders as well.

This is fast becoming the premier mtb destination in SA.

 

 

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Thanks, there is just so much to say but tried to keep it as brief as possible. The descents are crazy long. The final one I have on the action cam as 35 min!!!!

We tried for the cottage which is ideal, but it was booked. However our digs was awesome as well.

[Duane_Bosch]

The descents are crazy long. The final one I have on the action cam as 35 min!!!!

 

It's amazing how well they've done with a relatively small amount of gradient. Another part I really enjoy is that you can hop across on to other trails at those little cross over points.

 

(I might have the trails a bit confused here but..) A fun thing to do is top of blue. Then at the cross over point ride the trail exit. Then into the jumps on yellow. Then at the crossover grab the trail exit again. Then across to G Flow and down to the coffee shop for a coffee.

[bertusras]

It's amazing how well they've done with a relatively small amount of gradient. Another part I really enjoy is that you can hop across on to other trails at those little cross over points.

 

(I might have the trails a bit confused here but..) A fun thing to do is top of blue. Then at the cross over point ride the trail exit. Then into the jumps on yellow. Then at the crossover grab the trail exit again. Then across to G Flow and down to the coffee shop for a coffee.

 

Yeah, that's something that I remarked as well. You do the long pedal up the service road, then you hit the first bit of flow, then you hit Red (Jungle Fever), then you end up at the start of Blue (Crazy Creek) and when you're done with that you end up at the start of Yellow (Forest Frenzy, which is absolutely AMAZING) and then I was so poked from the stoke that I decided to head back. 630m in 24km, not bad!

[DJR]

So, worrying terribly about my hallucinogenic ride yesterday, and my incoherent posts about it, I decided to take the young Ds with me as witnesses and go check and see whether  I am now completely scrambled in the head or whether there is still hope for me!

 

I am delighted to report that I am mentally (if not aerobically) as fit as a fiddle again today -  I assume that with the rain, clouds and fog gone, from my head as well, the mountain, Cape Town and Table Bay all returned to their rightful places in the universe.

 

I took a picture to prove it. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

Nah bro, the beard parts the air for me. Like a supercavitating torpedo, it creates a mini vortex that reduces drag. #bearddoping

FACT

One WorldTour team have prohibited beards for their racers

Think UAE ????

Gains baby gains

[fanievb]

FACT

One WorldTour team have prohibited beards for their racers

Think UAE

Gains baby gains

 

http://d1sdo0x0jmbeil.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/UAE-TEam-Emirates-18-Bono-Matteo-150-285x492.png

[Eddy Gordo]

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That looks like an aero beard

 

this tho

 

http://www.singletrackworld.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/06/beard2.jpg

[coppi]

The Corniche in Doha, Qatar [emoji1203] on a Chinese 3 speed.

What a load of fun......

 

 

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[Patchelicious]

FACT

One WorldTour team have prohibited beards for their racers

Think UAE ????

Gains baby gains

FACT

 

I would rather get drunk with Dan Craven or Simon Geschke than anybody on UAE ????

Edited January 8, 2018 by Patchelicious

[Gen]

FACT

 

I would rather get drunk with Dan Craven or Simon Geschke than anybody on UAE [emoji6]

Kristoff seems like a nice guy...don't know how much driking he would do[emoji20]

 

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