Yellow Saddle ::

Tour Overview

Yellow Saddle Cycle Tours and Safaris have a three-point objective. We want you to:

• EXPERIENCE friendship, kinship and South Africa’s best destinations.
• EXPLORE places you normally just speed by.
• ENJOY every moment of it, even the hot and sweaty ones.

Our Tours

Yellow Saddle Cycle Tours and Safaris offer a range of tours and cycling break-away weekends to suit every cyclist, from the enthusiastic novice, through to the experienced expedition rider looking for an extreme challenge. However, we pledge to ensure that each ride remains a ride and never becomes a race to the finish. You ride at your own pace and we want you to enjoy the scenery and stop when you want to and experience the pleasure of touring by bicycle. We don’t race, we ride!

What bike?

You can do a mountain bike or road bike tour with Yellow Saddle. Mountain bikes are of course welcome on road tours but for obvious reasons, not vice versa. Mountain bikes fitted with narrow slick tyres make road touring that much easier. Our longer road bike tours often take on stretches of good gravel roads but this will be indicated on the tour itineraries and tarred detours will be available. Many riders feel that road bikes are totally unsuitable to gravel sections but this is not the case. With wider tyres (28mm tyres are available in South Africa and fit most road bikes), short gravel sections become a non-issue. The owner of Yellow Saddle Tours and Safaris regularly traverses the Montague Pass outside George on his racing bike fitted with 28mm tyres and is none the worse for wear.

Experience. Explore. Enjoy.
Touring is not all hard work

Carbo loading is important for effective long-distance cycling