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Sponsors get cycle race off to flying start |
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Prizes worth R75 000 are at stake in this year’s Pick'n' Pay Rotary
Knysna Cycle Tour, which forms part of the Graca Knysna Oyster Festival,
providing visitors and locals with lots of entertainment before and
after the races. The tour will be an exhilarating two-day festival this year. By holding the event over two the cyclists can now enter for both the mountain bike and road racing events. There's even a discount for entering both events and substantial prizes for participants who register the best overall performances. This is the event's 17th year and it is now the biggest and most popular cycle tour in the Southern Cape. The mountain bike events take place on Saturday, July 5th. It boasts a challenging new 78km route deep into the Knysna Forest. The route is a combination of the best Knysna has to offer and promises to be the highlight of the Mazda Drifter Series. All routes start on Waterfront Drive & the 78km ride proceeds up Salt River, Gouna, Kom-se-Pad, a part of Petrus se Brand cycle route. There is a section of single track on privately owned property and the route passes through Steinhof private plantations and continues to Concordia, over Safcol land before joining the northern part of last year's 48km route back to the start/finish area. It includes 20km of indigenous forest sections and follows parts of the old railway 'coffee-pot' line between Diepwalle and Bracken Hill. The route winds through fynbos, plantations, rivers and mountains. Pick'nPay has come to the party with massive partnership. Various co-sponsors such as Go-shopping Go-banking Energade, Mazda Drifter and Knysna's very own Knysna Cycle Works have put in huge amounts of effort to make this tour a success. |
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