by timshazz | Dec 30, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
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 no idea where we would be when the time came to abandon the bikes and find a way...
by timshazz | Dec 21, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
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...
by timshazz | Dec 10, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia, Gear specifications
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...
by timshazz | Dec 9, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia, Gear specifications
[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...
by timshazz | Dec 7, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
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...
by timshazz | Dec 5, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
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...