CAPE WINELANDS
WEEKENDER.
Four days. One valley.
Every good road in it.
Stellenbosch, the Franschhoek Pass, Helshoogte and the Jonkershoek valley. Premium guesthouse nights, wine farm dinners, full support. The most sociable four days on a bike you will ever have.
An hour from Cape Town, the Winelands stack some of the finest road cycling in the southern hemisphere into an area you can ride across in a morning. That density is the point: you are never transferring for hours to reach the good stuff, because the good stuff starts at the door.
Maximum eight riders. Always guided. Built around your group and your calendar rather than a fixed departure board.
Roads worth flying for
Stellenbosch is the hub — the home of South African cycling, mountain and road, with the cafe culture to match. From there the classics link up naturally.
Helshoogte carries you over to Franschhoek. The Franschhoek Pass rises in long switchbacks above the valley in what is effectively an amphitheatre. Paarl offers vineyard flats under Paarl Rock. And Bainskloof Pass out of Wellington, a nineteenth-century engineering piece, remains one of the great road climbs in the country.
Gravel riders have their own network through farmland and forest, from the Jonkershoek valley to the Wellington wheat roads, so a mixed-surface group is easily accommodated.
What’s Included
Tell us who is riding and roughly when. We will come back with dates, a route shaped to your group’s pace, and pricing.