Some of you might be interested in what kind of camping gear we are carrying as well as our bike specifications. The stuff we got wasn’t always our first choice. For example we were keen to buy the new MSR Whisperlite Universal that takes gas cannister and multi-fuel but they haven’t been approved for Australia YET and getting one from overseas...
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. Why practice when we’d be doing the real thing for the...
As much as we hope it doesn’t happen, things WILL need fixing on the bikes. Whereas in the past I just toddled down to the bike shop, flashed some cash and all would be hunky dory a few hours later (at the most), that’s just not going to happen while on a long distance tour. Punctures we can deal with but...
Well it’s probably of interest to some of you what we’re riding and what changes we made to the manufacturer’s specs. We did hours of research on what we needed and then consulted some experienced cyclists we met on the road and trust implicitly. I figured a table would best explain things in a logical manner so I hope it all...
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 interpret my spreadsheet and get the...
Heading for home…We fly tomorrow for Perth. In the next month we will launch our new website Titled “Catch our Travel Bug”..The tagline is “Sharing our passion for independent, budget travel”. The following is the first blog title “Heading Home”. I hope you’ll all join us when it’s up and running. It doesn\’t matter how long you’ve been away or...
