I wish I’d started this page when (in what seems like eons ago!) we first started researching for our travels. Come to think of it, there was no iternet when we first started our travel. How much have things changed???? There are so many awesome bloggers out there, I’ll never get to them all. However, a 2014 New Years Resolution...
Heading into the Xmas period the pressure to be places and fit in with other people’s schedules started to mount. We’d made a promise to be home in Broken Hill for Xmas but really had had no idea where we would be when the time came to abandon the bikes and find a way back. We figured Melbourne but bad...
What a difference a day makes. After an enforced rest day in Robe because of crazy high winds (in the wrong direction), we awoke to a gorgeous sunny day with fairly mild winds and perfect mid twenty temperatures. We had a fairly short cycling day planned to Beachport (~50km) so there was no hurry to get on the bikes. When...
As well as our Bikes and Bike Bits, we’re carrying a lot of other things on this ride, most of which add to our comfort or provide convenient solutions to situations we experience along the way. (Click here to see what many of them are.) Here are our TOP TEN things we wouldn’t do without on our trip cycling across...
[adsense_id=”2″] You might remember early on we revealed all the details about our bikes, the specific customisations and our accessories. We’ve had almost 5000 km to evaluate them and here is the TOP TEN things we couldn’t do with on this bicycle trip across Australia 1. Our Bikes – SURLY Long Haul Truckers. It goes without saying that you need...
We were a bit shabby the next morning having had one too many refreshing beverages with our mate Scotty. By the time we had the tent down and everything on board we were feeling something close to human. Heading down the main street of Strathalbyn to try and find breakfast, we were greeted by the sight of dozens of bikers...
Mark had driven me up this route a couple of days before and left me in no doubt as to how difficult it would be. It’s a steep 10km climb that tested even the more experienced road cyclists with their feather-weight bikes. Yes we’d met a few hills in our ride through the Barossa Valley but this was a whole...
It was a short but extremely busy ride from Riverton to Tarlee where we’d left the Clare Valley and entered the Barossa. The traffic kept us on our toes and we were extremely happy to turn off onto the Kapunda Road and some peace and quiet. Our ride into Kapunda, and the Barossa Valley, has to be one of our...
29 Sep, 2014
