False Bay virtual cycling route
South_Africa False Bay
Distance: 23.45 km
Elevation Gain: 94 m
Elevation Loss: 77 m
Difficulty: 88 (Easy)
FIETS Index: 0.01 FIETS
Avg Grade: 0.35 %
Max cat climb: 5
Min elevation: -2 m
Max elevation: 37 m
Ride Category: Flat

False Bay is an immense C-shaped curve in the coastline to the southeast of Table Mountain. At its widest point it is a staggering 30km across the bay! It comes as no surprise then that the bay is littered with numerous long sandy beaches, some of which have managed to escape any form of urban development. Long before GPS was invented, the sailors of old returning from long sea voyages to the east confused this picturesque bay with the more famous Table Bay a bit further along the coast, thus giving False Bay its name.

Rank Rider Date Time Power W/kg Speed
🥇 alan schmidt May 22, 2022 00:34:11 410 W 4.11 w/kg 41.18 km/h
🥈 Douglas Forer Nov 22, 2022 00:37:11 311 W 4.15 w/kg 37.86 km/h
🥉 stephansluijmers@xs4all.nl Jun 06, 2022 00:37:46 310 W 3.33 w/kg 37.27 km/h
4 Raf Van Grieken May 19, 2022 00:37:47 297 W 3.96 w/kg 37.25 km/h
5 Homo Rotulans May 25, 2022 00:37:47 300 W 4.00 w/kg 37.25 km/h
6 Igor Tatarinov Dec 11, 2022 00:38:10 295 W 3.52 w/kg 36.88 km/h
7 Chris Oct 12, 2023 00:38:32 283 W 3.78 w/kg 36.53 km/h
8 Tigo Star Jan 26, 2022 00:38:52 276 W 3.68 w/kg 36.22 km/h
9 Rainer Klee Jul 16, 2025 00:39:00 279 W 3.25 w/kg 36.09 km/h
10 Sebastian Meyer zu Selhausen May 18, 2022 00:39:02 278 W 3.16 w/kg 36.06 km/h
11 Geir Skaugen May 23, 2022 00:39:23 274 W 3.22 w/kg 35.74 km/h
12 D Speelman Feb 28, 2024 00:39:23 272 W 3.58 w/kg 35.74 km/h
13 Tom Smeets Dec 10, 2021 00:39:50 254 W 3.48 w/kg 35.34 km/h
14 Rod McGovern May 30, 2022 00:39:57 260 W 3.35 w/kg 35.23 km/h
15 Robert Rheault Oct 28, 2022 00:40:30 243 W 3.57 w/kg 34.75 km/h
16 Jos Tusveld Nov 04, 2023 00:41:02 241 W 3.05 w/kg 34.30 km/h
17 Wojciech Oszkandy May 13, 2022 00:41:10 242 W 3.23 w/kg 34.19 km/h
18 Joe Calderwood May 18, 2022 00:41:14 235 W 2.47 w/kg 34.14 km/h
19 Юрий Ермолаев Sep 28, 2025 00:41:32 230 W 3.19 w/kg 33.89 km/h
20 Eric Green Oct 29, 2025 00:41:38 236 W 2.88 w/kg 33.81 km/h
21 Martin Budd Dec 12, 2021 00:41:40 228 W 3.18 w/kg 33.78 km/h
22 Uwe Altmann Jun 05, 2022 00:41:51 228 W 3.04 w/kg 33.63 km/h
23 Jacob Stang Oct 17, 2022 00:42:03 222 W 3.17 w/kg 33.47 km/h
24 David Croft Nov 12, 2022 00:42:04 227 W 2.73 w/kg 33.46 km/h
25 Jan Wielgus Jan 09, 2024 00:42:09 220 W 3.10 w/kg 33.39 km/h
26 J F Aug 19, 2025 00:42:11 230 W 2.61 w/kg 33.37 km/h
27 Piotr Ziemiański Feb 02, 2023 00:42:25 225 W 2.85 w/kg 33.18 km/h
28 Daniel Beale Jun 08, 2022 00:42:30 224 W 3.07 w/kg 33.12 km/h
29 Petro Mol Nov 06, 2022 00:42:39 227 W 2.39 w/kg 33.00 km/h
30 Rikard Persson Feb 17, 2023 00:42:59 212 W 3.03 w/kg 32.75 km/h
31 Richard Klos Jan 18, 2024 00:43:05 212 W 2.83 w/kg 32.67 km/h
32 Richard Cowan May 19, 2022 00:43:26 208 W 2.63 w/kg 32.41 km/h
33 Markus Geiger May 21, 2022 00:43:28 207 W 2.65 w/kg 32.38 km/h
34 Ian Clark May 16, 2022 00:43:34 204 W 3.00 w/kg 32.31 km/h
35 Artem Neposedov Oct 21, 2022 00:43:38 204 W 2.62 w/kg 32.26 km/h
36 patrick vanholm Dec 06, 2022 00:43:45 200 W 2.82 w/kg 32.17 km/h
37 Andrew Fawcett May 22, 2022 00:43:49 211 W 2.40 w/kg 32.12 km/h
38 Frank S Nov 22, 2023 00:43:53 210 W 2.33 w/kg 32.07 km/h
39 Alan Chell Nov 15, 2022 00:44:10 201 W 2.68 w/kg 31.87 km/h
40 Thijs Pit Nov 01, 2023 00:44:20 198 W 2.44 w/kg 31.75 km/h
41 Silvano Turati Apr 13, 2023 00:44:31 188 W 2.76 w/kg 31.62 km/h
42 David Kings May 16, 2022 00:45:03 199 W 2.34 w/kg 31.24 km/h
43 Paul Shields Nov 22, 2023 00:45:04 189 W 2.42 w/kg 31.23 km/h
44 Dru Dixon May 25, 2022 00:45:07 185 W 2.74 w/kg 31.20 km/h
45 Thomas Kjær-Andersen Feb 22, 2023 00:45:08 190 W 2.47 w/kg 31.19 km/h
46 Jan Theron Jul 16, 2025 00:45:08 185 W 2.64 w/kg 31.19 km/h
47 Rafał Kaczorowski Aug 01, 2022 00:45:20 192 W 2.13 w/kg 31.05 km/h
48 Roman Mospan Jun 26, 2023 00:45:20 188 W 2.44 w/kg 31.05 km/h
49 Mike 8008 Sep 26, 2025 00:45:22 194 W 2.26 w/kg 31.03 km/h
50 Eva Klusoňová Oct 09, 2023 00:45:29 184 W 2.45 w/kg 30.95 km/h
51 Rémy Jouanne Sep 14, 2023 00:45:31 178 W 2.87 w/kg 30.92 km/h
52 Michael Spyra Jun 02, 2025 00:45:36 196 W 2.06 w/kg 30.87 km/h
53 Jan Van Hal Dec 19, 2023 00:45:45 186 W 2.48 w/kg 30.77 km/h
54 Carsten Juhler Mar 03, 2024 00:45:46 201 W 1.84 w/kg 30.76 km/h
55 David Avery Dec 15, 2022 00:45:48 184 W 2.19 w/kg 30.73 km/h
56 Mark Vos Jul 02, 2022 00:45:53 184 W 2.45 w/kg 30.68 km/h
57 D Miller Jul 04, 2022 00:46:05 177 W 2.36 w/kg 30.54 km/h
58 Sylvain Marinel Aug 29, 2022 00:46:06 181 W 2.29 w/kg 30.53 km/h
59 Matthias Marquardt Jun 13, 2022 00:46:10 171 W 2.59 w/kg 30.49 km/h
60 Grzegorz Jurczak Feb 15, 2024 00:46:11 195 W 1.89 w/kg 30.48 km/h
61 Andrew Jackson Jan 23, 2024 00:46:18 179 W 2.27 w/kg 30.40 km/h
62 Tim Oldham Oct 12, 2023 00:46:19 170 W 2.54 w/kg 30.39 km/h
63 craig brookes Oct 15, 2022 00:46:22 172 W 2.42 w/kg 30.36 km/h
64 Szilard Krizmanics Nov 17, 2022 00:46:26 175 W 2.40 w/kg 30.31 km/h
65 Mike-the-Bike Feb 23, 2023 00:46:26 176 W 2.35 w/kg 30.31 km/h
66 Jason Evans Jul 03, 2022 00:46:46 175 W 2.21 w/kg 30.10 km/h
67 Rik Lukey May 17, 2022 00:46:56 166 W 2.49 w/kg 29.99 km/h
68 gabor roza Dec 26, 2022 00:47:04 164 W 1.93 w/kg 29.91 km/h
69 Jonathan Schnell Mar 02, 2023 00:47:08 185 W 1.85 w/kg 29.86 km/h
70 Kris C4 Oct 24, 2022 00:47:09 175 W 2.57 w/kg 29.85 km/h
71 Martin Ackermann Nov 21, 2025 00:47:09 177 W 1.99 w/kg 29.85 km/h
72 Clive Pritchard Jun 01, 2022 00:47:10 164 W 2.28 w/kg 29.84 km/h
73 John Savill May 14, 2022 00:47:17 169 W 2.10 w/kg 29.77 km/h
74 Stephen Gunn May 24, 2022 00:47:19 162 W 2.48 w/kg 29.75 km/h
75 Indalecio Lekerika Jun 04, 2024 00:47:27 155 W 2.92 w/kg 29.66 km/h
76 Fabio Zanirato Jul 15, 2025 00:47:28 154 W 2.75 w/kg 29.65 km/h
77 Sławek Bikeman Oct 06, 2022 00:47:29 170 W 2.15 w/kg 29.64 km/h
78 Ray P Nov 03, 2023 00:47:41 165 W 2.14 w/kg 29.52 km/h
79 Christopher Epo May 24, 2022 00:47:46 168 W 1.95 w/kg 29.47 km/h
80 K F Mar 28, 2023 00:47:48 158 W 2.36 w/kg 29.45 km/h
81 Markus Albert Dec 09, 2021 00:47:59 167 W 1.86 w/kg 29.33 km/h
82 Marnix van Voorbergen Jan 31, 2023 00:48:01 153 W 1.80 w/kg 29.31 km/h
83 Andrea Sfrisi Nov 26, 2025 00:48:01 161 W 2.27 w/kg 29.31 km/h
84 Peter Muris May 23, 2022 00:48:02 158 W 2.11 w/kg 29.30 km/h
85 SandstormBRVR Dec 10, 2024 00:48:05 159 W 2.41 w/kg 29.27 km/h
86 Michael Novich Mar 11, 2026 00:48:08 178 W 1.67 w/kg 29.24 km/h
87 Giuseppe Gigante May 17, 2022 00:48:11 155 W 2.25 w/kg 29.21 km/h
88 Dimitrios N Servis Oct 13, 2022 00:48:13 162 W 2.03 w/kg 29.19 km/h
89 David Dos Santos Rodrigues Oct 27, 2025 00:48:20 152 W 2.41 w/kg 29.12 km/h
90 Jonathan Salzwedel Jul 29, 2022 00:48:26 157 W 2.09 w/kg 29.06 km/h
91 Jozef Čeginik May 18, 2022 00:48:30 161 W 1.99 w/kg 29.02 km/h
92 Lee Perry Jun 08, 2022 00:48:30 164 W 2.02 w/kg 29.02 km/h
93 Rainer Ertl May 22, 2022 00:48:34 157 W 2.09 w/kg 28.98 km/h
94 Jos Carboex May 18, 2022 00:48:47 156 W 2.08 w/kg 28.85 km/h
95 paul teunisse Mar 16, 2025 00:48:52 162 W 1.78 w/kg 28.80 km/h
96 JJosef Kluson Nov 02, 2023 00:48:58 152 W 2.03 w/kg 28.75 km/h
97 terry shaw Mar 17, 2024 00:49:00 147 W 2.26 w/kg 28.73 km/h
98 Paul Stowell Jan 31, 2024 00:49:11 159 W 1.75 w/kg 28.62 km/h
99 Frederik Vanrietvelde Oct 12, 2023 00:49:39 147 W 2.10 w/kg 28.35 km/h
100 Ron Peterson Dec 10, 2025 00:49:43 145 W 1.73 w/kg 28.31 km/h
101 Iwona Tercjak Feb 22, 2023 00:49:44 139 W 2.53 w/kg 28.30 km/h
102 Mike Buckhurst Aug 22, 2022 00:49:49 147 W 1.96 w/kg 28.25 km/h
103 jack66 May 29, 2022 00:49:58 147 W 1.96 w/kg 28.17 km/h
104 Steve Salzwedel Aug 28, 2022 00:49:58 146 W 1.72 w/kg 28.17 km/h
105 Денис Симковский Oct 27, 2022 00:50:00 160 W 1.51 w/kg 28.15 km/h
106 Jo Janssen Jan 28, 2023 00:50:00 155 W 1.68 w/kg 28.15 km/h
107 Italo Giorgio Falzoni May 19, 2022 00:50:04 148 W 1.97 w/kg 28.11 km/h
108 John-Einar Mjelstad Nov 02, 2022 00:50:07 159 W 1.59 w/kg 28.09 km/h
109 Olivier Purroy May 29, 2022 00:50:22 144 W 1.85 w/kg 27.95 km/h
110 Isabel Hayley Feb 09, 2024 00:50:24 133 W 2.56 w/kg 27.93 km/h
111 Vasco Amorim Jun 09, 2022 00:50:25 139 W 2.21 w/kg 27.92 km/h
112 Ralph Schumann Aug 02, 2025 00:50:30 148 W 2.21 w/kg 27.87 km/h
113 eric martin Jan 27, 2023 00:50:31 140 W 2.15 w/kg 27.86 km/h
114 Rob de Boer Oct 08, 2023 00:50:40 155 W 1.53 w/kg 27.78 km/h
115 Jozef Ceginik Dec 01, 2022 00:50:43 142 W 1.82 w/kg 27.75 km/h
116 Kalle Rossler Oct 13, 2025 00:50:47 140 W 1.82 w/kg 27.72 km/h
117 Thomas Schöfer May 18, 2022 00:50:50 152 W 1.62 w/kg 27.69 km/h
118 Wolfgang Wurster Dec 25, 2022 00:50:54 143 W 1.91 w/kg 27.65 km/h
119 Marc Schmerder May 18, 2022 00:51:04 138 W 1.82 w/kg 27.56 km/h
120 Jean Philippe Bouillon Jan 15, 2023 00:51:07 131 W 2.18 w/kg 27.54 km/h
121 Steven Alexander Jul 15, 2022 00:51:09 153 W 1.61 w/kg 27.52 km/h
122 Leonie Viterbo May 15, 2022 00:51:11 137 W 1.78 w/kg 27.50 km/h
123 Noel Fisher Oct 21, 2022 00:51:22 133 W 2.02 w/kg 27.40 km/h
124 W van Koetsveld Jan 08, 2023 00:51:27 136 W 1.81 w/kg 27.36 km/h
125 Dave Threlkeld Jun 29, 2022 00:51:28 138 W 1.82 w/kg 27.35 km/h
126 ricrog Dec 02, 2022 00:51:28 148 W 1.49 w/kg 27.35 km/h
127 יִגָּאֵל יחזקאלי May 18, 2022 00:51:30 135 W 1.93 w/kg 27.33 km/h
128 RAUL MENA May 28, 2022 00:51:41 143 W 1.57 w/kg 27.23 km/h
129 Norman Salzwedel May 18, 2022 00:51:47 130 W 1.44 w/kg 27.18 km/h
130 Chris Wilson Oct 26, 2022 00:51:49 127 W 2.12 w/kg 27.16 km/h
131 shurtha riftcrag May 22, 2022 00:52:02 131 W 2.08 w/kg 27.05 km/h
132 Dick van der winden Oct 15, 2022 00:52:02 136 W 1.70 w/kg 27.05 km/h
133 Edward Redfoot May 13, 2022 00:52:24 130 W 1.86 w/kg 26.86 km/h
134 Ingrid Wuyts Mar 11, 2023 00:52:48 118 W 2.27 w/kg 26.66 km/h
135 Alan Davies Sep 01, 2022 00:52:51 124 W 1.94 w/kg 26.63 km/h
136 Frantxoa A Jun 05, 2022 00:53:07 132 W 1.71 w/kg 26.50 km/h
137 Greg Boyd May 02, 2024 00:53:07 126 W 1.68 w/kg 26.50 km/h
138 Rene van der Steen Feb 26, 2023 00:53:16 117 W 1.95 w/kg 26.42 km/h
139 Rick Davis Dec 07, 2025 00:54:02 123 W 1.39 w/kg 26.05 km/h
140 Véronique Onselaere Oct 08, 2022 00:54:04 116 W 1.81 w/kg 26.03 km/h
141 Joseph Jun 07, 2022 00:54:09 117 W 1.63 w/kg 25.99 km/h
142 Gabriel Gugiu Jul 12, 2022 00:54:12 117 W 1.60 w/kg 25.97 km/h
143 Yves Boucher Mar 28, 2023 00:54:18 123 W 1.56 w/kg 25.92 km/h
144 Marcus Theile May 04, 2026 00:54:30 122 W 1.42 w/kg 25.83 km/h
145 Leszek Tomasiczek Dec 29, 2022 00:54:54 119 W 1.61 w/kg 25.64 km/h
146 Gil Daniel Apr 27, 2025 00:55:05 125 W 1.30 w/kg 25.55 km/h
147 Cédric Lamathe Feb 08, 2023 00:55:22 110 W 1.77 w/kg 25.42 km/h
148 Matt Cagniot May 27, 2024 00:55:30 112 W 1.49 w/kg 25.36 km/h
149 Mark Thompson Jun 10, 2022 00:55:38 110 W 1.57 w/kg 25.30 km/h
150 Milan Čuturilo Aug 14, 2022 00:55:46 145 W 1.09 w/kg 25.24 km/h
151 Alicja Ptaszkiewicz Feb 28, 2023 00:55:54 108 W 1.74 w/kg 25.18 km/h
152 Yves Livernois May 17, 2022 00:56:13 110 W 1.51 w/kg 25.04 km/h
153 Alan G. Feb 08, 2023 00:56:14 103 W 1.87 w/kg 25.03 km/h
154 Robert Duncan May 15, 2022 00:56:21 109 W 1.45 w/kg 24.98 km/h
155 Karin Bruckner Dec 07, 2023 00:56:21 99 W 1.80 w/kg 24.98 km/h
156 A.L. Jan 20, 2023 00:56:34 105 W 1.59 w/kg 24.88 km/h
157 Peter Gertsch Nov 16, 2023 00:56:45 110 W 1.29 w/kg 24.80 km/h
158 jeanette peterson Jun 13, 2022 00:56:53 97 W 1.58 w/kg 24.74 km/h
159 Ken Purnell Feb 09, 2023 00:56:58 105 W 1.40 w/kg 24.71 km/h
160 Ursula Schwarz Mar 11, 2023 00:57:08 100 W 1.75 w/kg 24.64 km/h
161 Jenny Pritchard Jan 13, 2023 00:57:21 90 W 2.00 w/kg 24.54 km/h
162 Matthieu Bourgois Feb 04, 2023 00:57:22 103 W 1.37 w/kg 24.54 km/h
163 Hans Petiet Dec 24, 2021 00:57:43 102 W 1.28 w/kg 24.39 km/h
164 benetnat pomme Jan 16, 2023 00:57:56 113 W 1.26 w/kg 24.30 km/h
165 Tomasz Em May 29, 2022 00:58:01 113 W 1.19 w/kg 24.26 km/h
166 Remco de Vries Jun 06, 2022 00:58:10 99 W 1.32 w/kg 24.20 km/h
167 Laurence Cousineau-Sigouin Dec 05, 2022 00:58:12 107 W 1.43 w/kg 24.18 km/h
168 Glynis Botes Sep 09, 2022 00:58:34 100 W 1.43 w/kg 24.03 km/h
169 Christopher Wiseman Jan 05, 2023 00:58:51 102 W 1.36 w/kg 23.92 km/h
170 Sylwia Jędrzkiewicz Feb 22, 2023 00:58:58 87 W 1.74 w/kg 23.87 km/h
171 Mogens Botteleth Jensen Feb 04, 2026 00:59:21 103 W 1.29 w/kg 23.72 km/h
172 Audrey Schmidt May 22, 2022 00:59:23 91 W 1.55 w/kg 23.70 km/h
173 Ben Buckhurst Jun 20, 2023 00:59:53 98 W 1.31 w/kg 23.50 km/h
174 Lawrence May 07, 2025 01:00:20 97 W 1.29 w/kg 23.33 km/h
175 Michel Roy Jan 27, 2026 01:00:40 97 W 1.17 w/kg 23.20 km/h
176 Mark Lowe Nov 15, 2022 01:01:20 92 W 1.15 w/kg 22.95 km/h
177 Sérgio Leite Lopes May 13, 2022 01:01:39 95 W 1.27 w/kg 22.83 km/h
178 Adnan Pasha Jan 14, 2024 01:01:48 89 W 1.19 w/kg 22.78 km/h
179 t ttt Mar 20, 2024 01:01:51 84 W 1.38 w/kg 22.76 km/h
180 Gérald VABRE Jan 07, 2025 01:02:20 97 W 0.94 w/kg 22.58 km/h
181 Iwona Ziemianska Feb 02, 2023 01:02:44 76 W 1.49 w/kg 22.44 km/h
182 Michael B 1947 Jun 05, 2022 01:05:24 78 W 1.04 w/kg 21.52 km/h
183 Gianluca Ierpi Apr 20, 2026 01:05:47 78 W 1.24 w/kg 21.40 km/h
184 Brigitte Gez May 18, 2022 01:06:08 68 W 1.36 w/kg 21.28 km/h
185 Sonja Thoms Jun 05, 2022 01:07:01 76 W 1.01 w/kg 21.00 km/h
186 Frederic GEZ May 30, 2022 01:08:09 66 W 1.32 w/kg 20.65 km/h
187 CherylAnn May Nov 01, 2025 01:16:55 64 W 0.70 w/kg 18.30 km/h
188 Gabriele M Dec 09, 2022 01:19:29 57 W 0.76 w/kg 17.71 km/h
189 Jean-Claude Tondini Dec 23, 2022 01:21:30 48 W 0.64 w/kg 17.27 km/h

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