cycle tour

The Cape Town Cycle Tour, the world's largest timed cycling event, was cut to 47km because of fires along its traditional route. But that did not stop tens of thousands of people riding in and supporting the Show You Care Solidarity Ride.

South Africa's Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour is included in the top 10 cycle routes in the National Geographic Book "Journey of a Lifetime - 500 of the World's Greatest Trips".

First-year professional Tyler Day of the Bonitas Medscheme team captured the biggest victory of his short career when he outsprinted a large bunch to win the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town on Sunday.

Around 35 000 cyclists gathered in the streets of Cape Town in the early hours of Sunday morning to take part in the world's biggest individually timed cycle race, the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour.

The Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, held in and around Cape Town in March every year, is the biggest individually timed cycling event in the world – and the most scenic – with a history going back over more than three decades.

South Africa's Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, the world's largest individually timed cycle race, sees over 35 000 cyclists tackling a 109km route around Cape Town that is as spectacular as it is gruelling. Winds reaching 140km/h made the 2009 event one of the most challenging in the history of the race.

South Africa boasts the two largest individually timed cycle races in the world, the Cape Argus Pick 'n Pay Cycle Tour and the Pick 'n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge. The former is contested around the picturesque Cape Point, the latter is raced in and around Joburg. Now Durban is getting in on the act.