I’m familiar with the requirements and rigors of solo cycle touring. I am packing everything I need; clothes, food, camping […]
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 was […]
Risk and Return
Back from a few months away touring on my bicycle, I was invited to a friend’s party where I was […]
Midweek Meander 3 The Federation and Foreshore Trails
It’s a cyclist’s 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 old Ironhorse Mountain Bike 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 […]
Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond 