Trail Angels

Trail Angels A ladies mountain biking club that offers a weekly riding schedule, skills lessons, travel opportunities and so much more.

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Meet our coaches!! 🩷Behind every ride, every skill unlocked and every woman who surprises herself on the trails - there’...
08/09/2026

Meet our coaches!! 🩷

Behind every ride, every skill unlocked and every woman who surprises herself on the trails - there’s our team.

Swipe to get to know the faces of the Trail Angels Team.

Meet Nikki Haywood - Founder & Head Coach 🩷

The woman who started Trail Angels with six friends and a single weekly ride in 2012.

She started the Trail Angels club because she believed women needed a safe, judgment-free space to try cycling and 13 years later, the mission hasn’t changed.

Meet Coach Viv 🩷

Viv is a physiotherapist, former Pilates studio owner, and self-confessed fan of riding through rocks.

She picked up mountain biking in 2014, joined Trail Angels, and has been coaching ever since.

Her BICP certification combines with 30 years of movement knowledge to create something a little different...

Sessions where a little bit of fear...starts to feel like fun 😉😉

Meet Coach Lena 🩷

Just 8 years ago, Lena started out nervous on a bike and quiet in the group and so if you’re nervous on a bike, she gets it more than most.

“I am passionate about empowering girls and women to be brave and overcome their fears. I now love technical riding and have competed in several XCO races and completed a few multi-stage races, including Dr. Evil, Wines2Whales, Tankwa Trek, Gravel Burn and Cape Epic.”

She coaches with a lot of heart, zero judgment and a very good understanding of what it actually takes to go from scared to confident on the trails.

Meet Coach Ciske 🩷

Ciske is a Biokineticist who found mountain biking a few years ago and never looked back. Joining Trail Angels 3 years ago and continuing on to rider her first Wines2Whales in 2025...she’s the kind of coach who makes you feel like you can do the thing you were convinced you couldn’t.

“I’m passionate about helping women grow in confidence on the bike and love creating a supportive and encouraging environment on the trails.“

Patient, ever-positive, encouraging and always in your corner.

Meet Coach Barbs 🩷

She’s been a personal trainer for 30 years, discovered mountain biking in 2018, and has been making up for lost time ever since !!

Cape Epic, 2x Wines2Whales, 3x Attakwas, Sani2C, and counting

THE WEEK (and month) AHEAD 👀👀In addition to our usual weekly schedule of MTB and gravel rides, we have a few stand out e...
06/09/2026

THE WEEK (and month) AHEAD 👀👀

In addition to our usual weekly schedule of MTB and gravel rides, we have a few stand out events coming up this month as well as a couple of key gravel races!

Notably our Cornering Group Skills sessions as well as Heritage day W2W Womens Ride on the Paul Clüver trails!
👉 Expect plenty of encouragement, great company and an opportunity to ride sections similar to what you'll experience at Wines2Whales.

📆 Mark your calendars!

What's actually in your gel? Your bar? Your bottle?Most of us ride on whatever worked for someone else - and wonder why ...
03/09/2026

What's actually in your gel? Your bar? Your bottle?

Most of us ride on whatever worked for someone else - and wonder why we bonk at after 2hrs or feel sick mid-race. This workshop is for YOU.

This Friday, Dr Lena Ronge is running a hands-on nutrition workshop at Tokai Forest Guesthouse.

Bring everything you currently use - gels, bars, chews, drink mixes, whatever lives in your jersey pocket - and we'll go through the labels together.

📌 Friday 4 September | 11:00
📌 R100 tickets for non W2W Academy riders
📌 in collaboration with

We'll cover what to eat and drink before, during and after your rides, and how to dial in your fuelling for training and race day.

Link in bio to RSVP 🩷

THE MONTH AHEAD 👀👀In addition to our usual weekly schedule of MTB and gravel rides, we have a few stand out events comin...
03/09/2026

THE MONTH AHEAD 👀👀

In addition to our usual weekly schedule of MTB and gravel rides, we have a few stand out events coming up this month as well as a couple of key gravel races!

Notably our Heritage day W2W Womens Ride on the Paul Clüver trails!
👉 Expect plenty of encouragement, great company and an opportunity to ride sections similar to what you'll experience at Wines2Whales.

📆 Mark your calendars!

Week 4 - Summit for Dignity Final Updated 🩷R36 049 raised. WE DID IT!This month has been something really special and ha...
31/08/2026

Week 4 - Summit for Dignity Final Updated 🩷

R36 049 raised. WE DID IT!

This month has been something really special and has taught us something important…singularly, our efforts may feel small, but TOGETHER we can achieve things beyond our wildest dreams !!

We couldn't be more proud and more grateful for our amazing community who showed up for something bigger than ourselves, for girls who deserve access to a life without limitation! 🩷

THANK YOU!

Our final Summit for Dignity Challenge SHEovita @‌ciovita jersey leaders are awarded to:

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

🔴 Polka Dot Jersey - Most segment efforts
Suzanne Clark | 28 summits 🔥

🩷 Pink Jersey - Best Mast Pic
Suzanne Clark

🤍 White Jersey - first-time summiteers
29 people rode to the top of The Mast for the very first time this month !!! 👏

🎉 R36 000 raised for the MENstruation Foundation - that’s sanitary pads for 600 girls for a year!Our August Summit for D...
31/08/2026

🎉 R36 000 raised for the MENstruation Foundation - that’s sanitary pads for 600 girls for a year!

Our August Summit for Dignity goal - hit and surpassed!

All month, women have been heading up to The Mast in Tokai, logging their climbs on our dedicated Strava segment, and raising money so that girls don’t have to miss school because of their periods.

Over the month, we have summed up a summit total to over 230 summits for August !!!

Thank you to everyone who summited, donated, shared and showed up this August. We put our minds to something and were committed to a goal and together, our community has achieved something magical! 🩷

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MENstruation Foundation
CIOVITA
Cadence Nutrition
Beyond Bike
Sq**rt Cycling Products
ASS MAGIC
NOVA Chocolate

SAVE THE DATE - Thursday 24 September 🩷Join our FNB FNB Wines2Whales and Trail Angels team for a Women’s Outride at Pau...
31/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE - Thursday 24 September 🩷

Join our FNB FNB Wines2Whales and Trail Angels team for a Women’s Outride at Paul Clüver this Heritage Day.

On Thursday 24 September at 08:30, we’re heading to the Paul Clüver Trails for a women-only ride on one of the most beautiful trail networks in the Western Cape.

Whether it’s your first W2W or your fifth, this ride is about building confidence on the trails, not chasing a time. We’ll keep a comfortable pace, share tips along the way…and no one gets left behind.

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This is a free, women-only ride - sign up via the link in bio
Let’s get W2W ready…together! 🩷🚵‍♀️

SAVE THE DATE - Thursday 24 September 🩷Join our FNB FNB Wines2Whales and Trail Angels team for a Women’s Outride at Paul...
29/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE - Thursday 24 September 🩷

Join our FNB FNB Wines2Whales and Trail Angels team for a Women’s Outride at Paul Clüver this Heritage Day.

On Thursday 24 September at 08:30, we’re heading to the Paul Clüver Trails for a women-only ride on one of the most beautiful trail networks in the Western Cape.

Whether it’s your first W2W or your fifth, this ride is about building confidence on the trails, not chasing a time. We’ll keep a comfortable pace, share tips along the way…and no one gets left behind.

____________________

This is a free, women-only ride - sign up via the link in bio
Let’s get W2W ready…together! 🩷🚵‍♀️

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Tokai Road
Cape Town
7945

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+27824683552

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