Sweet trails, new trails and old trails

I am continually amazed at how new trails seem to pop up and old trails re-invent themselves. With winter hitting the Western Cape and the epic slog a fading memory, it is time to find and ride some new trails. I spend the winter months riding less frequently but trying to keep it interesting by exploring some new routes and mixing some of the old ones up a bit.



Thanks to some motorcross bikes, not often that I say that, we have a new little piece of sweet singletrack. Its got everything, short steep sections, corners, rolling bumps, rocks, fast sweeping turns and drop offs. Yesterday we rode 25km odd, that took us almost 2 hours to do. It was quite different from the normal 40km 2hr riding routes.



It is more like a cross country course and made me remember how much fun those types of courses are. With marathon riding having become so popular the lost art of technical track riding needed to be revisited. It is a welcome change and it is a great way to vary your riding. Being so different to the normal riding it is great variation and excellent for spicing up a training routine, really windy days, or to improve technical riding skills. My roadie friend has seen a marked improvement after just 2 or 3 weeks of riding this route regularly.



So don't think there is nowhere to ride, there always is, it is just a matter of mixing it up andding in some variation. Now I just need to get that helmet cam so that I can show you what I mean