Great feedback on our mountain bike trails

In early June, we were lucky enough to have a visit from a few mountain bike legends who were out scoping for an article to be feature internationally in the spring. Daniel Dobinson and Harry Millar (Iride Africa), lead mountain bike trips across South Africa. They were joined by another mountain bike nutter: Oli Munnik and well known photographer Ewald Sadie. Just to add to the challenge, they decided to carry their beds with them and camped out for the night. 

They selected a lovely camping spot on Grootvadersbosch Farm and were lucky to have a magically warm day in June. These are not unusual here as June records one of the lowest rainfall months. You only have to drive 3 hours to get a totally different weather system to Cape Town!

Camping in the Grootvadersbosch Conservancy on a warm June night (Photo credit: Ewald Sadie)

These guys know how to ride bikes and were we thrilled at their feedback: ​

​"We had a freaking fantastic time on your trails and I am super impressed with what you have done. The area you have managed to cover is large giving that rad feeling of getting out into the 'wilderness' and your trail work is exemplary! We will be plugging you guys for sure! Apparently we didn't even get to your cool trails so I am super keen to come back so we can cover decent distance as the green route looked rad and the Broken pass sounds amazing and the trail we saw switchbacking up to the pass/poort looked amazing (we ran out of light up there so didn't get to it). I recommend more trail through the indigenous forest (for diversity) and Aileen says you have actually built some rad trails in the forest that we didn't see as still opening. Well done! The steep benchcut section when you diverge onto  the red route from the black route is a masterpiece! I can see how much work went into that !! Trail wise you have done some great planning and building! The routes feel natural and wild and it doesn't feel like you are just going in circles which is always hard to do. " Dan Dobinson Iride Africa

Exploring the Grootvadersbosch Conservancy mountain bike trails (Photo credit: Ewald Sadie)

Thanks for the visit and come back again soon so we can show you more of the trails. We can recommend a few places to stay so that you dont have to drag your bed with you and can spent more time cruising the trails!