Subaru George

The mountain bike track in Van Riebeck Park is developing organically. Paths that were the home of vagrants have been cleaned and now provide a superb training facility.

True to form, mountain bikers have put all sorts of obstacles in the paths so they can launch themselves in the air. Now that the evenings have drawn in, they are riding at night. The Hill Billies do laps of the circuit on one Tuesday every month and with the bike head lights, it is a truly impressive sight.

One can see them struggling on the paths if one walks along the river. There are loops that allows the cylclists to swoop down to the river level at speed, negotiate a banked bend and struggle back up to the contour path again. You get a close look at the bikes and feel the energy being expended.

I sincerely hope that Riaan Barnard ,his team and the municipality do not lose interest in this project and that George can produce some truly great cyclists using this facility.