JHB Cycling Safety

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13 hours ago, DrPayne said:

Thank you. When you say safer than CT, do you mean the motorists or the criminals?

Both I would guess based upon my experience and conversations with cycling friends in CT. My wife and I ride through Sandton/Johannesburg often through the month, mainly early mornings before the traffic and have never felt unsafe. I was robbed on the Spruit a few weeks ago so I would not recommend you use a MTB or gravel bike along the route without having some first hand knowledge from a reliable source as to where the hotspots are. There are a couple of cyclists that travel north along Rivonia Road in the mornings (I normally travel south) and you will encounter riders in Bryanston all the time. You need to be more careful on the return trip due to traffic.