by timshazz | Mar 13, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Somewhere along the line we’d both envisaged this day. It was our last ride. The final ride of a trip that has crossed a continent on bicycles newly purchased in Perth. A ride that chalked up our 7000th km and would be our final leg of 3 transcontinental journeys. In...
by timshazz | Mar 8, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
After resting??? up in Port Macquarie for three nights we planned in an extra long ride for our first day back on the bikes, 115km through to Nambucca Heads would be the longest ride since the Nullarbor, so many months ago. Thankfully the road was pretty flat and we...
by timshazz | Mar 7, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
We spent a great week enjoying the good company of family and the surf culture of Manly in Sydney as we planned the final assault on Brisbane. As luck would have it the Hurley Australian Open Surf and Skate Carnival was being played out only metres from where we were...
by timshazz | Feb 27, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Not before time, we finally got to send almost 8 kgs of our winter gear on to Brisbane, so with fresh legs, a tail wind and a big load off, the hills on the way to Ulladulla didn’t seem nearly as hard as those before Bateman’s Bay. Still 55km took us just over 3 hours...
by timshazz | Feb 22, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
We thought once we’d made it through the South East of Victoria that we’d be hill fit and ready to roll. I had high hopes of making Sydney by the end of January, averaging just over 70km a day. Surely after almost 6000km we were bike fit….How naïve was I. The hills of...
by timshazz | Feb 19, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Well we literally did “chill” in Lakes Entrance. With the heat wave breaking several records all over Victoria we holed up in the unexpected air conditioning, venturing out, only in the cool of the evening to visit the various social hotspots around town… We had...
