Kleinmond to Betty’s Bay on a Sweltering Saturday Morning
By: Anelda van der Walt On Saturday 22 January my son (12) and I joined the Kleinmond Cycle Club (KCC) “leisure group” on a ride out to Betty’s Bay. The “leisure group” is led by Neels Kleynhans and aims to get people back on their bikes, or in our case, get first-timers onto a bike! Neither my son nor I had ever cycled further than a few kilometres (mostly in town). Frankly, I haven’t really been on a bike for 27 years
MTB trails after the flames
The last couple of days were nervous times for us in Kleinmond. The fires raging around our little village kept drawing our eyes, especially at night. Tonight things are looking a lot better from where I stand though and we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to the teams who battled this inferno for days on end. The flames have died down, but the rebuild starts now. We have quite a bit of work to do on our trails,
Bike Park Photos: Painting between the lines.
The Bike Park volunteers are at it again! This time they got out their paint brushes. A big 'thank you!' to all the people who pitched in to get the kiddies cycle track lines painted today. It looks fabulous! From a distance.
Kleinmond Cycle Club Red Route
Reproduced here in full from https://www.ebiketouring.co.za/Western-Cape-ebike-routes/Overberg-eBiking-Routes/Kleinmond-Cycle-Club-Red-Route, with consent from the author. We’ve often driven the R44 into the coastal town of Kleinmond in the Western Cape Overberg and noticed cyclists riding along the road verge and on the tracks and paths on the slopes of the Kogelberg Mountains to the north of the road. Keen to join in, we discovered that the Kleinmond Cycle Club has managed to secure access to this privately owned land and laid out a couple of