All The Road Closures For This Weekend’s Cape Town Cycle Tour

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It’s that time of year again, and this weekend nearly 30,000 cyclists will descend on the Mother City in a dazzling kaleidoscope of colourful spandex for the annual Cape Town Cycle Tour.

Peddlers will be punishing their perineums along a 109-kilometre route to Cape Point and back on Sunday, March 9, so expect a rush on Powerade and Veet at Pick n Pay, and don’t make any plans for lunch in Llandudno.

Like most years, it should be loads of fun, so if you have mates with a house along the route, invite yourself for a braai and soak up the atmosphere. If you’re taking part in the race, remember to keep left, watch out for discarded water bottles, and try to avoid the high-protein wake of the USN team.

Parts of the city and the Atlantic seaboard, where the start and finish lines and rider chutes will be set up, will be verboten to cars from Saturday, and on the day of the race most of the peninsula will be dedicated to the cycling, so it’s best to check out the route before heading out this weekend:

We don’t always understand the cycling crowd, but the Cape Town Cycle Tour, formerly known as the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, is the world’s largest individually timed cycle race and a feather in Cape Town’s cap. With breathtaking scenery and the typical Kaapstad gees all along the route we understand why it’s one of South Africa’s favourite events.

Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve completed a few races ourselves back in the day, and the camaraderie of suffering through the 109-kilometre fietstrap really is something special, so good luck to all the riders.