While the Alps and the Pyrenees are packing away for winter, the Western Cape is only just warming up. The best time for gravel cycling in South Africa runs on its own calendar entirely.
Read the post →Seven stages, not five. The Western Cape does not ask for your best climb — it asks for the same solid day, six times running.
Read the post →Sun that arrives early, dust that gets into everything, and thorns that end tubed tyres. A Western Cape packing list built around what actually goes wrong.
Read the post →Seven towns, farm kitchens and a vineyard dinner — the people and places behind a week of gravel cycling across South Africa's Western Cape.
Read the post →Three landscapes in nine days — the Klein Karoo, the Overberg and the Cape Winelands — over the Victorian Swartberg Pass on some of the quietest gravel anywhere. A full guide.
Read the post →Nine days of gravel across South Africa — red earth, mountain passes, and roads where the landscape is measured in scale, not kilometres.
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