Offering outstanding scenery, a tropical climate and spectacular roads, Taiwan is the surprising little island with the lot. Words and photography by Iain Treloar. It’s 6am, Saturday, and Taipei is waking up. Outside my hotel window, it’s a 180 degree panorama of skyscrapers, high-density apartment towers, hotels and billboards; lush green mountains wallpaper the gaps between. Fourteen
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The beach beckons in New Zealand’s sunniest corner. Alex Crisp packed up the family to ride the new trail to get there. Kids love adventures. Rio and Mia buzzed with excitement as we loaded our bikes and donned helmets to explore the Great Taste Trail. We planned to ride 69km along the coastal section of
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Dreaming of Europe, Mark Temby discovered southern Tasmania is rich cycle touring territory in itself. Where do you ride when you’ve pedalled all the paths, ridden all the rail trails and exhausted the charms of your commute? My mind turned to cycling in France, Italy or along the Danube, and with my wife Cathy, I
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Nat Earl launches into cycle touring with a comprehensive exploration of exotic Myanmar. In 2015 there are not many places in that have retained the aura that Myanmar has. Dotted with temples, one of the largest networks of rivers in the world, a mountain range almost as long as the Great Dividing Range but three times
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This idyllic rail trail in the beautiful Yarra Valley is an ideal site for an annual clan gathering, as Andi Clarke relates. Family traditions come in many shapes and sizes and one of the most enduring in our family is our annual ‘Warbie Bike Ride’. Now in its 13th year, the ride started with my
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Brutish hills and spectacular views await those willing to take on the challenge of the Gold Coast Peaks discovers Andrew Demack. Okay, should we get this bit out of the way first? Bicycle Network and Bicycle Queensland’s newest ride—Peaks Challenge Gold Coast (Saturday 8 August, 2015)—is going to be super, super hard, and the first
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Euan Pennington takes us behind the scenes of a quintessentially Australian off-road challenge. “There’s a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta lined with battered cars that didn’t rate a tow, Salt plains out of Pimba, and your eyes begin to stream…” The song was circling my head, because we really were north of Port
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From the coast to the mountains, Margot McGovern seeks the nation’s top routes for picturesque pedalling. Australia is home to some of the world’s most spectacular and diverse landscapes: sunbaked ochre desert, lush tropical rainforest, snowcapped alpine ranges and pristine coastline. Our diverse native flora and fauna makes Australia unlike any other place in the
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Peter Thurling tackles a monster mountain biking circuit on the outskirts of Hobart. There is a mysterious creature lurking in the bushland in the Meehan Range on Hobart’s Eastern Shore. It’s not a Tasmanian Tiger but it is wild and it is attracting more and more people in search of adventure, adrenaline and fitness. It
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Team Bicycle Network’s Stefan Magat explores his firsts as he heads into this year’s Peaks Challenge. 2015 is a year filled with a number of firsts for me as an official “ elite roadie” – though I must admit, my career has been a very average one up until now. This weekend, I’ll be taking
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