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Free quality sublimated sports shirt to all pre-entries who have entered by midnight 31 March 2024. Sizes will be strictly as ordered (no swopping on collection), so please consult the size chart below.

E-Bikes are welcome in all events, but due to interest and rise in numbers of E-Bikes they will be batched separately. Failure to comply with E-Bike or any other batching will result in time penalties or disqualification.

Tandems and E-Bikes may take part in the 110km Team Road Race but are not eligible for prizes,

PLEASE NOTE: ALL MTB & GRAVEL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY 20 APRIL ALL ROAD EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE ON SUNDAY 21 APRIL.

This event is for riders who are comfortable on a mountain bike and able to ride 40km off road.

There are some climbs that will require a decent level of fitness, and riders will need a moderate level of skill, but there are no sections of difficult technical riding.

Team race (top three times from team of four) will be included in the 40km MTB race only.

Intermediate MTB race with some hills and some sections where riders will need moderate skills.

This event is aimed at riders who have some experience of cycling and feel comfortable riding on relatively easy off-road sections.

THIS EVENT IS NOT TIMED

Short and relatively easy MTB event for the younger and less fit or inexperienced riders.

This route is relatively flat and will not contain any big climbs or technical sections.

NO TEAM ENTRIES ALLOWED AT REGISTRATION/LATE ENTRY!

This is a team event and is open to all riders who have already entered the 110km event.

There is no entry fee to enter a team, but only riders who have been entered and paid the entry fee to take part in the 110km Road Race will be allowed to be part of a team. A rider may only be part of one team. Failure to comply with the above will render the entire team entry null and void.

Times for teams will be taken on the sum of the times of the first 4 riders out of 5 entrants to cross the line.

Team race (top four times from team of five) will be included in the 110km road race only.

NO LATE ENTRIES ON SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2024

The longest road race predominantly on the M4 north of Durban.

With full road closure at all times, riders will start with the first of two 42km loops, followed by a short 25km loop with a King of the Mountain point at The Ridge, and then the second 42km loop out and back on the M4.

This route will be spectator friendly with friends and family able to see riders and cheer them on regularly.

Team race (top four times from team of five), King of the Mountain (points from three KOM points) and Sprint (points from three sprint points) competition will be included in the 110km road race only.

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An out-and-back loop on the M4 from Moses Mabhida to Mdloti turn-point.

This event aims to give weekend warriors a chance to test themselves with an achievable target. The hills are never too strenuous but the undulating route provides some beautiful scenery and a chance to be part of the aQuellé Tour Durban vibe.

Short flat out and back loop with full road closure on the M4 to a safe turning point at Umhlanga.

This event aims to give everybody who owns a bike a chance to be part of Durban's favourite cycling weekend.

Sock orders are for colletion only at Race Day Registrations

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Race apparel.

Official aQuelle Tour Durban sock by Gilnokie for sale

20% of the profits from the sale of the socks will be donated to charity!

ORDERS CLOSE AT 12PM ON 12/04/2024 

Two colour options - White and Royal - Black and White 

Price R155/pair 

Sizes: 3-7 8-12

• The sock is produced using an Air blended Poly/Nylon fibre 
• Treated with Hydrocool, a moisture management system 
• Silver AGP for long lasting freshness
• The sock is an ultra light foot with padding in the heel and toe
• Seamless toe
• Mesh panels for heat release
• Bridge support  
• New improved Elasticated leg for better hold

Race Giveaways

Everyone who enters before midnight on March 31st will be guaranteed a quality, sublimated Female or Unisex aQuellé Tour Durban sports shirt. Sizes will be strictly as ordered (no swopping on collection), so please consult the size chart below.

KOM competition Three timing points (Pt 1 on laps 1 and 3; Pt 2 on lap 2) Top 20 get points (20 down to 1) Highest total wins Tiebreaker (best result at last timing point; if still tied, then best position at second timing point)

Sprint competition Three timing points (same point on all three laps) Top 20 get points (20 down to 1) Highest total wins Tiebreaker (best result at last timing point; if still tied, then best position at second timing point)

Race Information

aQuellè Tour Durban Trail Runs 20km: Price-R230     starting at 6:00 am 10km: Price R195     starting at 6:30 am 5km:   Price R135     starting at 7:00 am Late entries will be charges R50 extra.

Entries will be opening in early December 2023 on the KZN Trail Runnning website, with registration and late entries on Friday 19 April 2024 and race day on Saturday, 20th April 2024. All participants will be expected to check in the starting line 15 minutes before the starting time of each distance for the race briefing.

Participant substitutions:

Substitutions are available at a 5% admin fee until 12 April 2024. Thereafter no substitutions are allowed. Please email [email protected] to make any participant changes

Seeding/Batching: As this is a recreational ROAD Cycling event, the Tour Durban 2023 and Cape Town Cycle Tour 2024 results are used to seed/batch riders. If participants did neither of those events, they are batched according to Entry Date

The ROAG MTB seedings are used to batch the MTB events.

OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT EVENT

T-SHIRT SIZING CHART

This is the SECOND event of the 2024 ROAG KZN MTB Marathon Series 

Please note that to qualify for ROAG Series points:

· Nippers, Sprogs, Sub Juniors need to take part in the 20km

· Youths & Juniors need to take part in the 40km

· Seniors to Grand Masters need to take part in the 40km

· E-bike riders do not qualify for points in the ROAG Series

TRAIL SERIES

· 18 years & Under need to take part in the 10km Trail Run.

· 19 years & Over need to take part in the 20km Trail Run

For more info on the ROAG series rules please go to:  https://roag.org/series/44/publicabout/

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Ride for Good: aQuellé Tour Durban 2023

Updated April 21, 2023, 8:20 a.m. | By East Coast Radio

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Ride for Good and enjoy #FamilyFunForEveryone with the 2023 aQuellé Tour Durban.

The 2023 aQuellé Tour Durban is fast approaching and we’re calling on all riders to get out there and Ride for Good on 13 and 14 May 2023.

All proceeds from your entries go directly to the Domino Foundation. The donation helps support the incredible work they do in the communities around Durban.

Following the devastating floods that KwaZulu-Natal has experienced in recent times, the work that the Domino Foundation does has come firmly into the spotlight. Their relief efforts throughout the greater Durban area have helped so many people get back on their feet.

All riders will be welcomed at the finish line by an ice-cold ViV Sports Drink after they’ve conquered the 2023 aQuellé Tour Durban. aQuelle ViV Power and Sports drinks offer a unique refreshing experience in an ultimate grip bottle.

Entries for the 2023 event are open at ROAG.org for both the Mountain Bike events on Saturday, 13 May, and the road races on Sunday, 14 May.

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Tour Durban 2023 route is now M4 Loops 😴

By DroppedRider February 2, 2023 in The Bike Room

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Pity because last years M7 climb was a good challenge for the 100km race and M4 loops is a bit boring. I think the M4 loops will be the permanent route going ahead. A good route would be going up the M4 and back and then up the M13 (maybe not all the way to Shongweni) and then down the M13 heading back to Moses. Not exactly exciting as it's still loops but a better challenge. 

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I’ve been thinking the same thing for my club’s race. 

1. The road surface is terrible; 2. Easier to manage traffic (less intersections); 3. Less water points to be manned; 4. Boring? Yes. But there is still an event.

• 1 year later...

I see the route is the same M4 loops this year and to be honest it’s rather disappointing, especially considering the entry fees. I’m sure there are a number of things that factor into these decisions, but it’s far from an appealing race with this kind of route.

It’s perhaps the only way to sustain road events going forward. Less inconvenience to other road users, less logistics required.

While not being able to ride up the M7 is a major disappointment, this has been forced on the event by the authorities not allowing the race to cross the city.  The option to ride up the M41 is totally unique to this race and the advantage is that spectators can see riders pass them 6 times ob the route (3 times in each direction) which makes for better spectator involvement.  The race is still tough as it is fast, has roughly 1000m of climbing and is a full 110kms. 

The entry fee is also one of the lowest for a Gran Fondo Tour in SA and certainly in KZN.

We need to support any local races or soon we will lose them completely.

• DJuice , Danger Dassie , binxc and 1 other

R675 to race 110kms on the M4? No thank you... Not worth it. 

I understand the reasoning behind the change of route but the entry fee needs to be justified as well. You are no longer having to close multiple routes and have fewer water tables, marshals etc. 

The road service is also terrible, I did an event on the M4 last December which I couldn't finish because I hit a hole and destroyed my front wheel. 

I have no idea why South Africans are so against racing laps. 

Pretty much all social bike racing in most other countries comprises of laps. XCO. CX, Crits.... even world road champs and some of the classics are laps. 

The Champs Elysees is laps. 

It makes for really exciting racing, it's awesome for spectators, better for sponsor banners and way easier logistics for everyone.

We are one of the only countries where XCM stretches out forever and our road events close entire cities for more than half a day. (slight hyperbole before anyone jumps on that)

Laps are the future of sustainable racing and if you get over it, super exciting

Durban isn't very pretty anyway, so looking at the same pile of litter and derelict house with tons of flapping laundry a few times vs different piles of litter and derelict houses with tons of flapping laundry isn't going to change the racing.  😜

• FlashJordan , Scary Rider , DroppedRider and 6 others

For racing, laps are good. I'm looking forward to the local crit series starting, and back in Bloem there used to be a race with laps of about 25km that was great. But for the riders like my wife who aren't racing but just participating, laps are not much fun. With the racing groups speeding past multiple times, at what probably feels like a hair's breadth away for the slower riders, is scary and sometimes dangerous. And of course there are always the few Open category/Vets racers with too much testosterone who need to shout and be rude as well.

difference between a race and a tour (in my mind), for a race I dont mind loops, but if I'm doing a tour I'm expecting to be exposed to different scenery etc. along the way.

But all this is irrelevant to me in this case as I dont do the Tour Durban.

1 hour ago, Jewbacca said: I have no idea why South Africans are so against racing laps.  Pretty much all social bike racing in most other countries comprises of laps. XCO. CX, Crits.... even world road champs and some of the classics are laps.  The Champs Elysees is laps.  It makes for really exciting racing, it's awesome for spectators, better for sponsor banners and way easier logistics for everyone. We are one of the only countries where XCM stretches out forever and our road events close entire cities for more than half a day. (slight hyperbole before anyone jumps on that) Laps are the future of sustainable racing and if you get over it, super exciting Durban isn't very pretty anyway, so looking at the same pile of litter and derelict house with tons of flapping laundry a few times vs different piles of litter and derelict houses with tons of flapping laundry isn't going to change the racing.  😜

Durban is the best city in the world bru - our litter and derelict houses are prettier than anywhere else. 

• mecheng89 and Jewbacca

I loved the year we climbed the M13 and came back down for the Amashova. Hard up hill (1600m elevation in 80km) and a fun fast descent.   

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If you're going to be heading out tomorrow to catch the victorious springboks in action then you have to watch this video..

THE Springboks will receive a warm welcome in KwaZulu-Natal during their victory tour this Saturday, and Durbanites bursting with pride and excitement as the City gets ready to welcome the Springboks for their victory tour.

“We want to encourage all Durbanites to line up along the following routes at 09:30 (on Saturday, November 4) to catch a glimpse of the World Cup Trophy and to cheer for our world champions. The route will go along Aurora Drive, Centenary Boulevard, Umhlanga Rocks Drive, Kenneth Kaunda Drive, Blackburn Road, Chris Hani Road, Queen Nandi Drive, Malandela Road, Inanda Road, Umgeni Road, Roadhouse Crescent, Riverside Road, Ruth First Highway, Snell Parade, Anton Lembede Street, Pixley ka Seme Street, Mahatma Gandhi Road, and Russell Street before stopping at City Hall. We want to assure the people of eThekwini that we will deliver a safe and memorable trophy tour for our champions,” said eThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda in a recent statement.

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Mystery Tour: Bikepacking Through Japan (Video)

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Following a two-week bikepacking trip across Japan on a pair of State Titanium All-Road bikes, friends Jake Bleggi and Kyle Aldridge created “Mystery Tour,” a 26-minute video that shares the story of their immersive and occasionally hilarious time pedaling between Kagoshima and Tokyo with old and new friends. Watch it and find an introduction from Jake here…

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Photos by Kyle Aldridge

“Why Japan?” is a question I’ve been asked many times before and after spending 21 days roaming the country on my bicycle. The answer is simple: when Anthony Bourdain sat in a dimly lit bar during season two of Parts Unknown and delivered his two-minute monologue about what it’s like to experience Japan, I felt an overwhelming compulsion to visit. He compared a visit to Japan to what it might have been like for Eric Clapton to see Jimi Hendrix for the first time. 

He then finished off his rambling with three questions:

“What does this mean?”   “What do I have left to say?”   “What do I do now?”  

These are the questions I headed into the country with and the same ones I left with. Even though they are the same questions, they have completely different answers.

Our goal in Japan was to load our bikes with cameras and audio equipment and ride out on a mission to document the experience. We didn’t want this film to be like most other bike films we had seen. We are not athletes; our pace was not quick, and our effort was nothing unprecedented. The film we set out to make was about the people we’d meet and their way of life. Our goal going into Japan was simple: we wanted to immerse ourselves as deeply into the culture as possible. We wanted to meet people, eat food we’d never heard of, and try our best to understand. We felt the best way to do this was via bicycle. Traveling by bike would give us the freedom to access small towns and random back roads that we wouldn’t have seen any other way. With this in mind, we booked our tickets, boxed up our bikes, and left on an adventure with very little plan of where we’d ride.

Kyle Aldridge : Kyle has been an avid cyclist for years and was no beginner to the art of route design. He’s the guy you’ll find behind the screen prior to any bike trip. In 2023, Kyle helped co-create the Cattle Calls and Canyon Walls route, which we shared here on BIKEPACKING.com. On top of being a top-tier adventure cyclist, Kyle is also a filmmaker.

Fischer Olpin : Fischer is the owner and operator of Fish-Ski Designs, the well-known custom bike bag company out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Fischer was the mastermind behind our innovative bags for the trip. He was a strong team member not only because of the bags he brought to the table but also because of his A-grade personality. The man is a master in loitering and finding his way into wild situations; it’s like a good time is drawn to him.

Jackson Dalley : Jackson had never spent a night on a bike before this adventure. With most people, you’d be worried about traveling halfway across the world with them if they’d never bikepacked, but we weren’t worried at all when it came to Jackson. He’s a full-time brewer, and his knowledge and skill set on the matter proved very useful on the trip. His bright and down-for-anything attitude was exactly what we sought when building the team.

Jake Bleggi : I’ve spent my fair share of time roaming around via bicycle—building routes, traveling the world, and finding myself in what people would consider precarious situations. These are some of my favorite things in life, so this trip was right up my alley. I would consider myself a storyteller, and I couldn’t wait to tell this one.

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With some advice from our friend and local bag maker, River Murdock, who had done a similar trip the year prior, we learned that camping was safe, easy, and readily available. So, we put two points on a map: Kagoshima (our starting point) and Tokyo (our endpoint). What happened in between would be shaped by the people we met along the way.

We landed in Tokyo as planned and were set to take off on the bullet train to Kagoshima the next day to start our journey riding back north. But soon, our biggest fear when traveling with bikes became a reality: our bikes were lost, and nobody could tell us where they were or when they’d arrive. This inconvenience seemed like the end of the world at that moment, but it ended up shaping and defining the vibe for the rest of our trip. The four days we spent in Tokyo waiting for the bikes turned out to be some of the best of the journey. We made lifelong friends who would help mold the trip into what it was meant to be.

Nothing had gone according to plan, but we were right where we were supposed to be. Our friends from Wood Village lent us bikes to explore the city while waiting. We spent the following nights exploring the underbelly of Tokyo by bicycle until the early hours of the morning. Eventually, our bikes showed up. We took off on what could be considered the greatest “mystery tour” of our lives.

And We’re Off

The day we set off to catch the train to Kagoshima, it rained harder than almost any day I’d ever seen. With an escort from our new Tokyo friends to the Shinkansen, we rode our bikes 10 miles through the pouring rain, eventually making it to the train station and heading off toward our starting point. We waved goodbye to our Tokyo friends; this would not be the last time we’d see them along the route.

The 14 days from Kagoshima to Tokyo far exceeded our expectations. The people and places that shaped our route went far and above what we were expecting. The final result of the film is something we are beyond excited to share with the world. Our hope in bringing this film to fruition was to get people excited to travel the world in a different way. Of course, it’s fun to travel with just a bag, hotel reservations, and a mapped-out tour.  With that, you will see what you expect to see with few surprises.

But if you travel with your bike and just a starting and ending point with very little plan in between, I can now tell you from experience that you will have life-changing moments. You will see things very few people see. You will experience destinations unknown. And you will come home with stories that will shape your life and help prepare you for your next adventure. And for me, some of the most inspiring adventures are those that are mostly unplanned.

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