The Hidden Fence

Cycling is quite a popular sport here in South Africa. Since I already cycled in Switzerland and I had to do some sport here, as I have to drive by car everywhere, I decided to join a cycling club. The CycleLab SuperCycling Club is one of the best known cycling clubs in Johannesburg. For a yearly fee you can ride as often as you want. Saturday and Sunday morning (at 6 AM in summer!) the club rides start from CycleLab in Fourways. But also during the week there are club rides.

Since this means for me getting up at about 4:30 AM, I only go on the Saturday morning rides. The ride is on a very nice route to the Cradle of Humankind, north west of Joburg. There are several different groups from the very fast A down to the D+, D and even E. I started riding with D and now I am in D+, which is about 25 to 26 km/h average speed. The route is about 75 km long.

Thanks to my Nokia N95 and Sportstracker, I record every ride I make, so I can compare them. For demonstration purposes I have made the ride on last Saturday visible to everybody. I also took my camera (mounted on top of the Joby Gorillapod tripod) with me, so have a look at the pictures in the gallery.