Four hundred cyclists, three countries, about 260km and 1 400 jumbos make up the Tour de Tuli.
"Western Cape boundary/grens" reads the sign that Freedom Challenge racers are looking for as they ride between Willowmore and Prince Albert.
We -- Mike Roy, Lynn Morris and I -- have come to check out Namahadi as a possible way into Lesotho on a north-south mountain bike traverse.
It's an advantage if someone else (in my case Kevin Davie) has already done a route -- you get the recipe on a tray.
If there's a single feature that dominates South Africa, it is the Drakensberg. Kevin Davie discovered this when he cycled the rand from end-to-end.
I have often been asked if I am not scared to be out by myself. Coming into Wakkerstroom at night I frightened something large in the the grass.
I left Ardmore with a herd of Nguni cattle. They were making their way to the fields to spend yet another day grazing.
I would not be leaving Wakkerstroom in a rush. A late arrival generally means a late departure. I had a blog to write, but mostly I had to eat.
The last time a group of us cycled from Badplaas we took the Chrissiesmeer road which runs south-west.
I was in a state of disbelief when I reached Ohrigstad. The day had been so hot and it took so long that I was surprised to be there.
The Iron Crown in Haenertsburg seems a good place to begin a perambulation by bike from one end of the Drakensberg to the other.
When I started work on a mountain bike route along the Drakensberg, I was pleased to see that the trail would likely pass near Amajuba.
The Drakensberg does a vanishing act on Kevin Davie as he maps out a mountain bike route from one end to the other.
Kevin Davie's experience of Limpopo and Mpumalanga bike routes, following tracks seldom travelled, like old wagon routes and prospector's trails.
Kevin Davie goes in search of a mountain bike route through the northern Drakensberg.
On a recent cycling trip Kevin Davie met up with
tiny, unexpected tourists from Siberia.
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