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.