Sitting at home on a bleak cold rainy Sunday afternoon, thinking about this year’s big ride from Adelaide back to […]
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Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond
I love bicycle touring and have ridden from Melbourne to Darwin, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Cooktown, Pert to Melbourne and toured around Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015 I rode around the world! In 2017 6000kms half way around Australia then another 4000kms Helsinki to Athens via Scandinavia. Where to next?
Great Southern Rail Trail
Victoria has some beautiful and varied rail trails to explore. With a couple of days free I decided an overnight […]
Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail New Zealand
Luck’s a fortune, a volcanic eruption in Bali Indonesia saw us stranded on the tarmac in Melbourne our flight canceled. […]
Risk and Return
Recently at a friend’s party I was introduced to an emerging artist as that mad cyclist. “You can’t trust cyclists, […]
Midweek Meander 3 The Federation and Foreshore Trails
Its a cyclists sky; with light rain clearing I peddle off into a strong westerly wind full of hope. Melbourne […]
Midweek Meander 2 – Cycling the Ballarat Skipton Rail Trail
The ultra bright 1000 lumen lamp attached to my Ironhorse MTB illuminated the bleak opaque darkness as I cycled off […]
Midweek meander: Cycling the Bellarine Rail Trail
The weather forecast said our unseasonal run of warm dry weather is about to come to a chilling end, time […]
Easter Cycle – Biking and birding
We based ourselves in the Victorian high country at the suitably named Mount Beauty. Friends had kindly offered the use […]
Looking Forward, Looking Back: 8 months cycling in a tent.
I’m sitting in my back garden drinking tea while listening to the chickens cluck and scratch about. This first week […]
Greece on My Wheels
We cycled out of Patras as the fading rays of a lost summer sloshed up against the northern shores of […]
