Cycle coach David Heatley explains how to use your winter riding to gear up for spring events. My most successful clients are the ones with goals to achieve on their bikes. They maintain and build fitness over winter by working towards their goal. So if you want to stay active over the colder months, I recommend setting yourself a solid riding goal
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First out of necessity and then for the love of it, Nic Learmonth knows how to live car-free. She shares her best advice. When I first moved to Australia, I didn’t have the money to run a car. The move was a biggie in so many ways. I was suddenly in the midst of a
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Poor weather is no excuse to stop pedalling. Margot McGovern shares tips to keep you riding this winter. I suffer from what my husband has diagnosed as Seasonally Often Feeling Tired (SOFT) disorder. When the temperature drops, I’m inclined to don my warmest flannel pajamas, curl up on the couch in front of the heater and remain there until spring. So
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It’s hard to beat lunges for a lower-body warm up. Simon Vincett suggests this set you can do before any ride. The basic lunge is a superb exercise for warming up the major cycling muscles of the thighs and buttocks. With a few lunge variations as well, you can wake up the supporting muscles too, priming
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Margot McGovern finds the nation’s best spots for a post-ride pick-me-up. For two-wheeled coffee drinkers, there is little more rewarding or rejuvenating than that first sip of your latte or long mac after an even longer ride. However, great coffee alone usually isn’t enough for a café to draw a regular crowd of riders. So we put the question to Ride On readers:
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By bicycle, sailboat and paraglider around the world: Simon Vincett talks with a French man who has made his boyhood dream a reality. At 15, Olivier Peyre, read a book of two men who travelled around the world by bicycle. The idea captivated him, and just knowing it was possible convinced him that he would
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More than 1,800 cyclists have signed up to take on Australia’s toughest bike ride this Sunday. Melissa Heagney gives you a preview. The descent at Falls Creek It’s early morning, still dark when you line up at the start in Falls Creek. Riders bustle around you, doing their last minute preparation – checking their bikes
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It rained, but no amount of inclement weather could dampen the spirits of the Newcastle Challenge riders today. Guest blogger Anthea Hargreaves explains. Elated riders cross the finish line at Nobby’s Beach Reserve in Newcastle The skies may have been grey, but the weather was as warm as the greetings from the riders as
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Slip on a rashie, slop on sunscreen and slap on your helmet—it’s time to ride down to the beach. Simon Vincett suggests bike-friendly routes in six cities. For the freedom of a broad ocean view, a cooling swim and a coastal breeze to ease the summer heat, you can’t beat a great beach escape. Many of our local beachfronts are
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Rhiannon Riches finds low vision does not have to mean the end of adventure – it can be the start. Sharing elbow room around a table in the meal tent on the RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride, it was hard not to notice the rider sitting across from me peering intently at his mobile phone;
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