I’m familiar with the requirements and rigours of solo cycle touring. Packing everything I need; clothes, food, camping gear, stove […]
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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?
West Coast Wilderness Trail New Zealand: A cycling holiday.
Planning The Great Victorian Bicycle Ride .
Sitting at home on a bleak cold rainy Sunday afternoon, thinking about this year’s big ride from Adelaide back to […]
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 […]
Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond 