by Sharyn Nilsen | Oct 20, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
After spending a nice evening with new friends in Jerramungup, we hoped we were ready for the next leg of the journey to Ravensbourne. We obviously weren’t having much luck with the weather at the moment. We awoke to sunshine but the slight breeze that was present...
by Sharyn Nilsen | Oct 16, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
Our first 100km dayAfter an extra weather enforced day in Albany we were itching to move on.At 6.30 the sun was out. At 7am it was raining again and when we pulled out at 8am it hadn’t really decided what it was going to do. An hour into the ride we were hailed on....
by Sharyn Nilsen | Sep 11, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
Well there wasn’t much sleep going around the night before our first day on the road. I definitely didn’t think either of us had done enough prep. I had exactly 178km on my new bike and Tim 113!!! Still our very experienced cycling friends kept telling us to chill....
by Sharyn Nilsen | Aug 31, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
It has taken more than a month to get the bikes and the rest of the necessary gear together and with a week to go it’s still not all here. We started on the bike specs while back in Kenya in the 2nd week of June. Elite Racing Cycles in Perth were able to...