BikeLife
Shop in Sandton

Bike Life is all about getting more people involved in cycling, building a community of awesome bike people and helping people live the Bike Life dream. It’s the joy of being out on a great ride by oneself, with a group of friends, going away to an awesome riding destination for the weekend with the family, or hitting your local route after work for a quick burn.
Bike Life was born out of the love for the Lifestyle Choice that is Cycling. Its about that first ride as a beginner, its about the hunt for the personal best or a podium and everything between.

Bike Life was born out of the love for the Lifestyle Choice that is Cycling. It’s the joy of being out on a great ride by oneself, with a group of friends, going away to an awesome riding destination for the weekend with the family, or hitting your local route after work for a quick burn. Its about that first ride as a beginner, its about the hunt for the personal best or a podium and everything between. Bike Life is all about getting more people involved in cycling, building a community of awesome bike people and helping people live the Bike Life dream. Lots of things make me smile on the outside, but mountain bikes make me smile on the inside. These days its about balance and a bike is never far away! Ray Deftereos Ray Deftereos, is a IT executive who has been riding mountain bikes for six years. Oli has shifted his focus away from racing and is working in various aspects of the cycling industry. It's the joy of being out on a bicycle, going away to awesome mountain bike destination's. Caught between the desert and the Atlantic ocean, Swakopmund is a melting. Especially the two weeks away from cycling and training. Living up on the Highveld, the winters can be quite nasty for us Saffas. I’m certain that anyone from Europe would laugh at us if they had to hear us say it was too cold to ride. A mate of mine went out for a morning ride, at the coldest it was freezing, literally. They start out like a teenager’s pimple on the flat landscape of the world’s oldest desert, but as you get closer, you realise that these are an imposing act of nature! Its around about then that you start to see what looks like smooth granite slick rock. With the appearance of petrified waves and rollers, you start to pick out lines and routes you might try. Up close though, the surface is more like rough tar, but the traction is immense and you have to adjust what you consider realistic, both up and down hill. Its amazing how much grip there is, but falling on this stuff would be falling on a giant cheese grater!! Mystical, spiritual and beautiful all at once, camping under the stars with these huge sentries looking over you is an experience you will never forget. With a little effort and connecting with the right people you too can have an amazing adventure to the Spitzkoppe. We rented a bakkie with Thrifty, rented camping gear from Cycletec and took our own bikes with us. Real free riding where you can choose lines and steepness at will. Hard to fault the place, maybe that there are no formal routes, so if you are expecting that then you will be disappointed.