Sling your bike in the boot and pull off the busy N2 to check out one of these four scenic wineland mountain biking venues.

Conservation the Winner at iMfolozi MTB Challenge

Aug 1, 2017 Gerhard Horn challenge, cycling, iSimangaliso 4-day MTB, MTB, MTB Trails

This weekend (30 July 2017), the 13th edition of the Old Mutual Wild Series iMfolozi MTB Challenge took place in Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserv

Cycling

Riding High

Feb 28, 2017Feb 28, 2017 Gerhard Horn bicycle, cyclist, Durban Green Corridors, expert, Gabi Nbcobo, Inanda Dam, MTB, trail

Story & Pictures by Andrea Abbott & Tyron Mackenzie Gabi Ngcobo had finished school and was sitting at home in […]

Adventure Cycling

Bedford Cycle Safari

Sep 6, 2016Mar 26, 2019 Nicol Grobler Eastern Cape, MTB

‘It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best,’ wrote Hemingway. With this in mind, Matthew Holt signed up for a cycle tour around Bedford…

Cycling

Riding through Big 5 Country

Aug 18, 2016Sep 2, 2016 Nicol Grobler iSimangaliso 4-day MTB, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, MTB, Phinda Private Game Reserve

There’s nothing like mountain biking through big game country to get the heart pumping. And the annual iSimangaliso MTB4Day offers that, and more…

Cycling

Namaqualand by Bike

Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016 Nicol Grobler MTB, Namaqualand, wildflowers

If you’ve never seen the wildflowers of Namaqualand you simply haven’t lived. But do yourself a favour and tour slowly on a bike…

Cycling

Midlands MTB Meander

Jul 15, 2016 Nicol Grobler drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Midlands MTB Meander, MTB

A great way to discover the KZN Midlands is by mountain bike on a Midlands MTB Meander. Even better is that it can be adapted to suit any level of cycling ability…

Adventure

Adventure on Two Wheels

Apr 22, 2016 Nicol Grobler /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Adventure, MTB, MTB Trails

Adventure on two wheels? Now those who dare can swop their two feet or car for two wheels and go mountain biking in the /Ai/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park…

Cycling Leisure

Meet the Doctors of Spin

Apr 15, 2016 Nicol Grobler dirtopia, Fairtree Simonsberg Contour, mountain biking, Mountain-bike trails, MTB, Simonsberg mountain-bike trails, The Fire Ride

Meet the Doctors of Spin… They’re making some magical mountain-bike trails in the Simonsberg Conservancy…

Cycling Leisure

Bright Eyed & Bushy Trailed

Feb 25, 2016Aug 30, 2017 Nicol Grobler cycling, hiking, MTB, Touwsberg Private Game & Nature Reserve

Bright eyed and bushy trailed is exactly how you’ll feel in a mountain-biking, hiking and nature-loving paradise on the R62.

Travel

Green is the Valley

Feb 11, 2016 Nicol Grobler birding, Durban Green Corridor, Eco-tourism, hiking, MTB, uMgeni Valley

Just a half-hour from the beach, in the Durban Green Corridor that follows the Umgeni River, is a stunning wilderness playground.

Cycling

Cycling Cape Agulhas

Dec 11, 2015Feb 23, 2016 Nicol Grobler Agulhas National Park, Cape Agulhas, cycling, MTB

Fiona McIntosh checks out a new mountain-bike tour in the Overberg that traverses a little-known section of Agulhas National Park.

Cycling

Royal Drak MTB Challenge

May 14, 2015Jan 27, 2016 Country life staff cycling, drakensberg, MTB, running, the cavern

Race Report: Royal Drak MTB Challenge 18 & 19 April 2015. There’s always a great buzz in the valley on race weekend and this year was no different.

Cycling

joBerg2c: #CountryCyclist Did It, So Can You

Apr 17, 2015Jul 8, 2016 Country life staff CountryCyclist, cycling, Ian Macleod, MTB, Old Mutual joBerg2c

I had never ridden a mountain bike race when I lined up for the 2014 joBerg2c. My training had […]

Conservation

Doctor on Deck: Andrew Venter

Mar 16, 2015Jan 12, 2016 Country life staff conservation, cranes, karkloof, MTB, national park, trail run, wild series, Wildlands

His honorific might be the PhD variety, but Andrew Venter’s work for South Africa’s natural world is not unlike a physician’s mission to cure disease.

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