CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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curated scenic road. sandstone gorge, river crossings, mountains. A one-way ride of 189 km, De Rust to De Rust - roughly 3 h 30 in the saddle. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 10 km this is Meiringspoort Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
De Rust means the rest, and the village earns the name by being a pleasant place to stop before or after a day in the Swartberg. It lies in the Little Karoo between Oudtshoorn and the mouth of the Meiringspoort gorge, a small settlement of about three and a half thousand people, with a single main street of low whitewashed houses, shady trees and gardens, and the long wall of the Swartberg mountains standing dark to the north. The land around is dry, with farms along the river and fields of lucerne laid out like green patches on the red earth.
Read the complete De Rust write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Meiringspoort Road point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Meiringspoort Road point 2.
De Rust means the rest, and the village earns the name by being a pleasant place to stop before or after a day in the Swartberg. It lies in the Little Karoo between Oudtshoorn and the mouth of the Meiringspoort gorge, a small settlement of about three and a half thousand people, with a single main street of low whitewashed houses, shady trees and gardens, and the long wall of the Swartberg mountains standing dark to the north. The land around is dry, with farms along the river and fields of lucerne laid out like green patches on the red earth.
Read the complete De Rust write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Meiringspoort Road point 2 comes up 95 km in. Next is Meiringspoort Road point 3.
189 km in you reach Meiringspoort Road point 3.