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...
by timshazz | Feb 6, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
With mended legs from our day off in Warragul, a tailwind and a huge shoulder on the highway, the 56km ride to Traralgon couldn’t have been more different to the one to Warragul just two days before. There were a couple of hills to get out of town but then it was flat...
by timshazz | Jan 17, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Viewpoint at 13th Beach – Victoria With the Great Ocean Road behind us we were on the next major leg of our cycling tour across Australia to the Pacific Coast. After taking the coastal road track from Torquay via the very beautiful 13th Beach, we arrived in a...
by timshazz | Jan 14, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Views early morning on the Great Ocean Road After our big climb up Lavers Hill, a rest day in Apollo Bay was exactly what we needed, (the copious beverages were probably not) so the 6am wake-up call wasn’t all that welcome, but we wanted to miss the bulk of the...
by timshazz | Jan 13, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Ahhh, yes…the wonderful post-Xmas and New Year’s bulge. After almost 3 weeks off the bikes, getting stuck right into all the goodies of the festive season, we were feeling decidedly heavier, and cycling across Australia seemed like another world away. We finally...
