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...
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...
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...
