Ballito Cycling Routes

[Dylan De Brouwer]

Good Day

We are from Gauteng, coming down to Ballito in December. Are there any safe road cycling routes with a shoulder lane you can recommend? 

[David Marshall]

I never found anything decent when I was last there.  The N2 is bad, narrow shoulder overgrown with bush/grass and heavy traffic.  You can ride northwards through Salt Rock and stick to the coast until you run out of road but that doesn't give you much milage.

It looks like the locals ride very early going south on the M4 towards Umhlanga and do out and back laps.

There is a popular MTB trail park.

[Sepia]

8 hours ago, David Marshall said:

I never found anything decent when I was last there.  The N2 is bad, narrow shoulder overgrown with bush/grass and heavy traffic.  You can ride northwards through Salt Rock and stick to the coast until you run out of road but that doesn't give you much milage.

It looks like the locals ride very early going south on the M4 towards Umhlanga and do out and back laps.

There is a popular MTB trail park.

Very true.  Beware over festive season as it is even worse at this time.  No go for me anymore.  I will, say there are no safe roads to ride on with the likes of cane trucks sharing the road with you and dropping cane on the road, etc, etc. Ballito has grown too fast for safe cycling anymore.

Beware out there.

Edited Monday at 03:59 AM by Sepia