The Checkers Sixty60 bikes are not only loud. The way they are ridden puts people at risk.
- Residents regularly see riders overtaking cars on the incline.
- Riders barely slow at the stop street. Residents estimate 40 to 60 km/h straight through.
- They ride side by side and hoot at each other as they pass.
- People walk on this street, children included, and residents reverse out of driveways onto it.
- Shoprite's CEO says Checkers will intervene if it detects bad riding, and Checkers says riders are blocked from this shortcut. Neither matches what residents see.
Date: 7 October 2026
Privacy note: no rider, vehicle registration, exact street name or footage is published here. This describes a pattern residents see, not a single incident.
This campaign is mostly about noise. But stand on our street for an afternoon and you notice something else: how the Checkers Sixty60 delivery bikes are ridden.
What residents see, most days
- Overtaking on the incline. Riders pass cars going up the hill rather than wait a few seconds behind them.
- Straight through the stop street. Riders barely slow down. Residents estimate they go through at 40 to 60 km/h.
- Side by side. Two bikes abreast, taking up the lane.
- Hooting at each other. Riders greeting each other with the horn as they pass.
This is not a once-off. It is how the street is being used. Every hard overtake and every hoot adds to the noise as well.
Drivers elsewhere describe the same riding. "Don't stop at stop signs, even jump robots, cut off vehicles!" reads one Hellopeter review quoted by MyBroadband.
This is a residential street
People walk here, children included. Residents reverse out of driveways onto the incline. A bike overtaking a car, or one coming through the stop street at 40 to 60 km/h, is exactly what a child crossing the road or a driver backing out does not expect.
In June, a resident witnessed a near miss at the same stop street. Nobody should have to wait for someone to be hurt before this is taken seriously.
Checkers says it is in control. The street says otherwise.
In March 2026, Shoprite CEO Pieter Engelbrecht told eNCA that Checkers will intervene if it detects bad rider behaviour, MyBroadband reported. He also put part of the problem on motorists, who he said do not drive defensively because "South Africa doesn't have a motorbike culture." On our street, it is the cars being overtaken on the incline.
Closer to home, Checkers told residents on 10 June 2026 that its drivers had been instructed to use main routes. On 3 July 2026, it said riders had been blocked from using this street as a shortcut unless delivering here. The data showed no reduction, and riders still cut through every day.
Seven months after the CEO's statement, the riding described here happens in plain view, day after day. Either Checkers cannot detect it, or it detects it and does not act. Either way, its assurances do not survive contact with the street.
What we are asking for
- Checkers Sixty60: set and enforce safe riding on residential streets. No overtaking on the incline, a full stop at the stop street, single file. Keep through-traffic off this street, as it promised on 3 July 2026. And if it cannot control its riders, say so publicly instead of giving assurances.
- City of Cape Town traffic enforcement: visible enforcement at the stop street and on the incline.
Fewer delivery bikes cutting through means less noise and less risk. The fix for both is the same.