Cyclists urge motorists to avoid 69er route
Be reminded of the Toti 69er road race on Sunday, 12 July.
FRIDAY morning’s coffee ride was cold enough for the Toti Mamba cyclists to be deceived into believing that winter had finally arrived, but the rest of the weekend weather was spectacularly warm, once again.
On Saturday morning, a large number of mountain bikers met at the Illovo grass patch to do some hard riding.
Two groups of different strengths set out to do the two rivers route, with some fun track and plenty of hills thrown in. About 40kms was covered, with more or less 1,000m of climbing. The ride was made just that much harder by the howling wind that the riders had to pedal against. These two groups had an excellent training ride, while the one group did a shorter route with a lot of fun built in.
Sunday saw 30 Toti Cycle Club members and family meet up at Bike and Bean on Durban’s promenade to do a social 20km family ride to Ushaka and back to the bird park, returning to the store for coffee and breakfast. A few of the roadies and mountain bikers chose to do a fast ride from Toti and got those few extra kilometres into their legs. The promenade is a great way to do a chilled ride.
Be reminded of the Toti 69er road race on Sunday, 12 July. The race will run from Hutchison Park, up Reed Road and down onto Rockview Road and then along Kingsway and down the coast towards Scottburgh, returning the same way.
It is advisable for motorists needing to get to church to avoid Toti Civic Centre and Reed Road areas and rather use the Seadoone Road off-ramp and Ndongeni Drive to avoid hold ups at marshalling points and accidents with cyclists.
The club thanks the Toti public in advance for their co-operation on the day.
