The first league race of 2017, and fourth of the series, took place this past weekend out in Paarl. Hosted by Paarl Rotary, the 124 km Bouckaert-Soenen route is one of the longest on the calendar and promised exciting and tough racing, especially with a...
PPA members are invited to apply to ride in the PPA Safe Cycling STAY WIDER OF THE RIDER start group 2J (07h17*) or 5C (08h46) at the 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour. Show your support for safe cycling by riding the 2017 Cape Town Cycle Tour...
The City has compiled a Draft Cycling Strategy, which is a component of the broader Non-motorised Transport Strategy. The Draft Cycling Strategy for Cape Town is available for public comment. It is important that we all read this document and give input. The strategy was developed...
JOIN US FOR A NEW KILLARNEY CHALLENGE THIS SUNDAY Join us for a new event: The 'Tour de Track'! Come and chase your tails around the track this Sunday and see how many laps you can do. “Racing snakes” (only riders with a seeding...
For the past three years, PPA has supported a cycling project in the Greyton-Genadendal area. The projects supports some 40 kids from the area, aged 9-16, and PPA has provided with some entry-level bicycles, helmets and bicycle spares, and assisted to have off-road trails built...
Some 20 months after being closed after devastating fires destroyed most of Tokai, the popular Tokai mountain bike trails network is set to re-open at 07h00 on Saturday 10 December 2016. Initially Tokai will reopen on a trial basis on weekends only while the last...
The Pedal Power Association has issued a warning to cyclists to not use the Paarden Island cycle lane after the recent spate of muggings, with the latest mugging taking place earlier today. Capetonian Maon Saxe was apprehended by three men and knocked off his bike....
Great news: The organisers of the West Coast Express, the Outriders Cycling Club, have managed to obtain permission from traffic and local authorities for a new route for the West Coast Express. The event will now take place on Sunday 11 December 2016. Two brand-new routes...
The 2016 Environmental Management Programme (EMP) provides an overarching framework for the management and regulation of all cycling (road and mountain biking) in the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP). The primary aim of this EMP is the sustainable utilisation of a natural asset with an...
DID YOU KNOW… John Stegmann was the first PPA Chairman (1977-79), followed by Neil Bramwell (1979-80), Ian Macaskill (1980-81), Bruce Pickering-Dunn (1981-84), John Wilmot (1984-86), Rassie Visser (1986-87), Mario Rosingana (1987-88), Lawrence Whittaker (1988-99), Frans Fouché (1999-2003), David Bellairs (2003-04), Steve Hayward (2004-16) and Rens...