In Estonia, it’s legal to ride on the road or the footpath. It’s not necessary to wear a helmet in either circumstance – Exiting Tallinn we chose the footpath as the traffic was thick and the road quite narrow. Becoming a hood ornament on a Scania just isn’t part of our plans! I’ve gotta say, though, I hate riding on...
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 the last 2 years we’ve completed Trans-Asia, Trans-Africa and now...
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 planned it well again. Our biggest worry was a bushfire near Cann River that had...
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 had no idea where we would be when the time came to abandon the bikes and find a way back. We figured Melbourne but bad...
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 things we wouldn’t do without on our trip cycling across...
[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 bicycle trip across Australia 1. Our Bikes – SURLY Long Haul Truckers. It goes without saying that you need...
Just a quick note to tell you all that the distances and details of the ride can be found at the end of this post. This ride was definitely one of the heart and not the head. Who in their right mind would cycle 420km off their path in desolate countryside with unfriendly winds and undulating terrain for no reason...
You think when you get to Ceduna that you’ve nailed the big distances in the journey so it’s a bit hard to get your head around cycling another almost 500 km just to reach Port Augusta. There are a number of ways you can go but we had chosen the shortest route as we had a self imposed deadline to...
With the first part of the Nullarbor cycle under our belts, the second part was about to begin. The day off in Eucla certainly did the trick but it didn’t improve the weather forecast…depending on which one you looked at!!!! The official BOM site was predicting 39 degrees, possible thunderstorms and nasty winds. Weatherzone.com, on the other hand was reporting...
Of course hour 1, Day 1 of the Big Nullarbor Challenge, Murphy was alive and well. Just as we went to hand in the key, we discovered we couldn’t find it. That meant checking all the obvious places and then pulling apart Tim’s rear rack to find them in his other pants pocket. That raised the tension levels but as...
Craft Beer and Fab Food at the Siem Reap Brewpub
14 Jan, 2018
