JMBC Posted April 16, 2019 Share hermanconradie, Edition 507, Bonus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worriesnot Posted April 16, 2019 Share Where does it start and where is best place to park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMBC Posted April 16, 2019 Share Where does it start and where is best place to park?You can always start from Bidon Bistro, lots of parking. As it is a loop you can start from different places along the loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted April 16, 2019 Share Nice video. I used to ride the Cradle MTB trail from the Rhino & Lion car park when it was first started. I would ride up to the Kloofzicht roundabout on the road and then come back down on the dirt, then continue on the dirt back past the R&L Park until I got to the end of Beyers, then I'd come back on the road. Watching now, three years after we left SA, and I recognise so much - the trail itself, even the crash barriers and tunnel, the hills in the background . . . man, now I'm feeling homesick! Pieterlab1, nonky and Wannabe 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariusC Posted April 16, 2019 Share I really want to go try this out this weekend. I will be cycle alone so need to know if the route is clearly marked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jehosefat Posted April 16, 2019 Share I really want to go try this out this weekend. I will be cycle alone so need to know if the route is clearly marked? It's basically entirely in the road reserve so you can't get lost. Worst case you can just ride on the road a bit until you see the trail again. Just note that it is a one-way trail in a clockwise direction but other than that you can't really go wrong. nonky, Bonus and MariusC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariusC Posted April 16, 2019 Share It's basically entirely in the road reserve so you can't get lost. Worst case you can just ride on the road a bit until you see the trail again. Just note that it is a one-way trail in a clockwise direction but other than that you can't really go wrong.Great Thanks.any idea of the approximate distance and ascent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-squared Posted April 16, 2019 Share Great Thanks.any idea of the approximate distance and ascent? About 28km and 214m elevation according to my Strava. Whoops... see now that was only part of the loop. Will look for the full loop now. Edited April 16, 2019 by m-squared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMBC Posted April 16, 2019 Share Great Thanks.any idea of the approximate distance and ascent?It's close to 30Km with about 360m ascent MariusC and nonky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-squared Posted April 16, 2019 Share It's close to 30Km with about 360m ascent What he said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie NL Posted April 16, 2019 Share And once you have flipped around the main trail a couple of times, there are tons of additional trails to explore around the cradle. Just keep an eye out for guys riding and ask them about them (Woesrand MTB is pretty good) coppi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted July 21, 2019 Share Appears someone is deliberately spiking the route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MudLark Posted July 21, 2019 Share WTF??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie NL Posted July 21, 2019 Share Appears someone is deliberately spiking the route.Frm what I understand this was not what n the main cradle loop but on the trail from top circle to chicken pie scotty, Andrew Steer and RocknRolla 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocknRolla Posted July 21, 2019 Share Wife showed me these pics as well.It's in the tracks in the veld on the way to the Maggies farm (home of the chicken pie).There is a house just above halfway down, and from the pics it seems to be behind that house.Could be traps to create an easy target. Could also be an irate resident, tired of peeps traversing private land. Pure speculation at this stage.Fact is, it's concerning, as I have used these trails on my ace, and so has the missus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonus Posted July 21, 2019 Share I think I'd stick to the main Cradle Route if I was still cycling there . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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