The POINT2POINT Challenge
- NEW! The Experience
- The Challenge
- Rules & Getting Started
- En Route
- WALL of FAME
- …
- NEW! The Experience
- The Challenge
- Rules & Getting Started
- En Route
- WALL of FAME
The POINT2POINT Challenge
- NEW! The Experience
- The Challenge
- Rules & Getting Started
- En Route
- WALL of FAME
- …
- NEW! The Experience
- The Challenge
- Rules & Getting Started
- En Route
- WALL of FAME
Thanks to you (@point2pointchallenge) I managed to experience places I wouldn't have dared ride by myself.
I've already roped my friend who did the (Cape Town) marathon into doing either the LITE or ROAD versions when we next down in Cape Town.
Your website is great. I'm so glad I stumbled onto your Challenge!
Anthony Hayes
(KZN)
P2P MTB
Oct 2023
See Anthony's full experience story below*
‘Excellent experience. Tough but enjoyable route. Thank you for putting this together!’
Kobus Crause
P2P MTB Dec 2022
'Really enjoyed riding from Cape Point and enjoying the scenery and places I’d never ridden before.'
Kevin de Wet
P2P MTB
Jan 2022' It is a unique experience to ride through the most beautiful place.
The route is awesome and challenging, but that is why it is a Challenge!'
Jannie Steyn
P2P MTB
November 2022'Total new perspective of three dimensional Cape Town.
Awesome experience!'
Petrus Smidt
P2P MTB Nov 2022'Great variety of track. Little bit of tar, great single track, some technical section, variety of areas covered. Great ride!'
Enslin Uys*
P2P MTB
Nov 2022
*Winner RASA 2022 (Freedom Challenge)'An inspirational way to see the length of the peninsula. Really great website with good instructions and downloads for navigation.'
Terence Berry
P2P MTB
Jan 2022'Lekker route'
John Slingsby
P2P LITE Jan 2023
(Second effort on the
P2P LITE Route!)
'It's good.
Route is clear.
Solid ride.
Continue the good work!'
Bruce Biccard
P2P MTB
October 2022'A really amazing experience!
(Glad a friend from Jhb told me about it 😂)Jan Odendaal
(Jhb)
P2P MTB
Dec 2022'A wonderful day out. Fantastic scenery, great company and truly great experience!'
John Slingsby
P2P LITEJuly 2021
'Scenery, journey, variation... A wonderful way to experience Cape Town, thank you'
Craig Birch
(New Zealand)
P2P MTB
Nov 2022'10/10! Loved it, amazing views!'
Christiaan de Villiers
P2P MTB
March 2022' I have been riding the CPT surrounds for 20 years and the POINT2POINT is the first time I have set out to tie all the local rides together.
A great outing and whether you are local or a tourist it is a ride that show cases the best of CPT MTB!'
Craig Woods
P2P MTB,
May 2022A Point2Point Challenge MTB Solo account 14 October 2023 - Anthony Haynes
The start to my challenge was a little harder than expected. My family and I had visited the Cape Point National Park several days earlier and so I wasn’t keen to pay for the whole family to drop me off at the Cape Point lighthouse again. So, I said my goodbyes to the wife and kids and started my bonus ride to the start with a head wind of about 30km/h. Not the best start to a Challenge like this but my mood soon changed when I turned at the lighthouse and then had a massive tail wind to blow me back out the Cape Point National Reserve!
The ride from the lighthouse, out the national park and up Redhill was pleasant. I only had to slow down in one area to avoid Baboons who were sunning and grooming themselves on the tar road. Several friends had warned me to be careful around the Redhill township as they’d heard storys of the residents being quite aggressive towards riders in the past. On this occasion I was only greeted by the vibrant music emanating from several shacks.
After Redhill there was a small decent to Lewis Gay dam where the tar ends, and the wildlife begins. My first encounter was with a tortoise who was crossing the sandy trail.
From Klein Plaas dam to Ocean view was the only portion of this ride where I questioned whether doing this ride solo was a good or bad idea because once on the plateau you don’t see any signs of life and the warm weather had my eyes darting across the single track looking for basking snakes. In one area the fynbos had covered the trail. I ploughed through and ended up being caked in yellow pollen. The trail was tough going here because you spend most of your time riding in white beach sand which saps your energy.
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