Trail Angels

Ever noticed how watching someone else try a new skill makes it feel a little less intimidating?

That’s the magic of our Small Group Skills Sessions!

With a maximum of five riders, you don’t just get personalised coaching…you get the massive benefit of peer learning.

👉 See it in action: Watching fellow Trail Angels learn and tackle obstacles helps you process the technique better than you’d think!

👉 Zero pressure: We create a relaxed environment where it’s perfectly okay to try, wobble and try again.

👉 Shared progress: You get to share the highs (and the wobbles!) while making new riding friends.

Learning alongside 2 to 5 other riders creates a relaxed, supportive space where you can actually watch others navigate the same challenges.

Seeing a fellow rider figure out a tricky roll-down helps more than you’d think! It builds quiet confidence, takes the pressure off being "perfect," and turns a daunting skill into a fun, shared experience.

Our Cornering and Switchback group skills sessions are coming up in September & October - spaces are limited to five riders per session, so keep an eye out and grab your spot before they're gone.

Book via the Fit by Wix app 🩷🩷

At our core, Trail Angels is about getting more women on bikes, making cycling more accessible, appealing and safe for ladies who want to get into cycling 🩷

That is why we want to give a MASSIVE shoutout to Beyond Bike !

Beyond Bike showed up for our SHEovita Queen Stage with complimentary SCOTT E-Bike hires for women who wanted to be part of yesterday’s ride but needed a little extra support to make the summit.

As a result, we had 16 women who had never ridden The Mast before, join us in climbing the 900m ascent for our Summit for Dignity Queen Stage!

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This is what getting more women on bikes looks like. Not just opening the door, but making sure the path is walkable (or in this case, rideable) for everyone who wants to give cycling a try.

In addition, Beyond Bike will be matching our total summit count with R10 per summit for the month of August - in support of our fundraising for the MENstruation Foundation

Thank you Beyond Bike for being part of this !!

🫶🫶 Our community !!! 🫶🫶

We have a saying in Trail Angels…
”COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS”

Whether that courage is in showing up as many days as possible to climb The Mast, or in summiting it for your first time, or whether that courage is in riding a MTB for the first time ever.

Whatever courage looks like to you…its a feeling that catches!

The Mast is not an easy summit, no matter how many times you do it and yesterday, we had a 100% summit rate - every woman who joined us yesterday, made it to the top !

Yesterday, we saw so much courage and determination on the slopes of Tokai mountain, and perhaps most importantly…we saw it being shared 🩷🩷🩷

At our very core, this is who we are…a community who give it a go…together!

🩷👑 OUR SHEOVITA QUEENS STAGE 👑🩷
w/ CIOVITA

Yesterday, over 50 women showed up to summit The Mast !!!

Some had never climbed it before. Some have completed the summit multiple times already this month. Some came on analogue bikes. Some came on e-Bikes. Some came nervous. Some joined us for the first time!

Our SHEovita Queen Stage was always meant to be more than a simple ride. Our hope was that it would be a ride with purpose - to honour every woman who rides with courage & confidence, and to raise money for young girls who deserve to live a life, unlimited.

For us, it marked a day on the calendar to celebrate our amazing community of women, what we can achieve when we put our minds to something…what we can achieve, TOGETHER.

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Thank you to every woman who came out yesterday - you made it something we won’t forget anytime soon!

Week 3 - Summit for Dignity Update 🩷

R28 699 raised. 95% of our goal. And tomorrow, we go up one last time TOGETHER.

This month has been something really special. Our community has shown up BIG TIME - on bikes, on foot, in the fog & in the wind...summiting The Mast over and over again for girls who deserve to deal with their periods with dignity.

Every rand raised goes directly to girls who would otherwise miss school because of lack of access to basic sanitary care.

We are almost there. And we couldn't be more proud 🩷

This week's SHEovita jersey leaders:

🟡 Yellow Jersey - Fastest segment summit
Lena Ronge | 38mins 25secs

🔴 Polka Dot Jersey - Most segment efforts
Suzanne Clark | 20 summits 🔥

A special mention for Suzanne !!! 20 summits this month. That's almost every single day 🩷🩷

🤍 White Jersey - first-time summiteers
11 women rode to the top of The Mast for the very first time this month 👏

Tomorrow is our SHEovita Queen Stage - our Women's Month grand finale. Join us at Tokai Picnic Area at 08:30am for a group summit to close out August together.

Every summit counts.

👑 JOIN US FOR OUR SHEOVITA QUEEN STAGE 👑
In partnership with @‌ciovita 🩷

All month long, you've been going up, logging summits, raising money for girls who miss school because they can't afford sanitary pads. Climbing for something that matters, one pedal stroke at a time.

We are excited to host our SHEovita Queen Stage as our grand finale - a special edition of our usual weekly Team Tuesday ride to mark the cumulative efforts of our Trail Angels community summiting The Mast during Women's Month in support of the MENstruation Foundation.

Here's what you need to know:
📌 Date: Tuesday 25 August
📌 Meeting Point: Tokai Picnic Area parking lot
📌 Start time: 08:15 meet for roll out 08:45-09:00
📌 Route: Up to the Mast and back down the trails (non-technical jeep track option available)
📌 RSVP on Strava event (link in bio)

👑👑 P.S. Goodies from CIOVITA on the day

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We are also offering the service of on-the-day complimentary *E-bike rentals through @‌beyondbike_za

👉 Booking form on the link in our bio.
(*first come first serve)

However you learn best, we've got a session for you 🩷🩷

Trail Angels skills coaching is MTB-specific, coach-led and built around how women actually learn to ride - with qualified coaches who've been through their own version of nervous, uncertain and figuring it out on the trails.

👉 Private 1-on-1 sessions:
These sessions are for when you want to work on something specific or move at your own pace.

👉 Small group sessions:
These sessions are for 2-5 riders, giving you the benefit of individual coaching while learning alongside other learning cyclists.

👉 Skills packages:
Our packages are for when you're ready to commit to real progress. Our 5-session package gives you the time to work on techniques properly, revisit what you've learned, and build confidence as your riding develops.

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Our skills coaches hold international MTB coaching certifications (PMBIA, BICP, and GSMBC) - but what makes them good isn't just the qualification. It's that every single one of them coaches through the lens of having overcome their own anxieties on the bike to a place of confidence on trails.

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GET ON THE BUS WITH US to ride through wildflowers as far as you can see 🌸🌼🌺

Our Flower Season Micro-adventure is a favourite in the Trail Angels calendar…and for good reason!

Next week Monday, we will be hosting a guided, non-technical ride through the West Coast National Park. An organised bus shuttle to and from the Reserve, 40-50km of gravel roads, amazing company with like-minded adventurous women and light refreshments on the bus ride home.

You don't need to know the route. You don't need to sort the logistics. Just show up and ride.

📌 Date: 24 August 2026
📌 Bus departs Uitsig Bike Park, 8am - returns by 5pm
📌 40-50km guided gravel ride - non-technical, ALL bikes welcome
📌 R595 per person - Limited to 18 spots only

No bike? Rentals available through @‌beyondbike_za - book separately.

Link in bio to grab your spot 🩷

Week 2 of the Summit for Dignity Challenge 🌸

117 summits. R20 039 raised. And we are only half way!

Our community showed up last week - on bikes, on foot, in the fog - and every single one of those efforts is putting sanitary pads in the hands of girls who need them.

A special mention must go out to our hikers, who absolutely smashed it last week with 22 summits of their own !!

This week's SHEovita jersey leaders:

🟡 Yellow Jersey - Fastest segment summit
Jo Thomas | 45mins 21secs

🔴 Polka Dot Jersey - Most segment efforts
Suzanne Clark | 16 summits - Suzanne, we see you!! 🔥

🤍 White Jersey - first-time summiteers
6x women rode to the top of The Mast for the very first time this month👏

15 days left. The polka dot jersey seems secure, but rumour has it, eyes are on the yellow jersey and we may see it change hands this next week

Every summit counts.