Not just for A to B, Damian Antonio can show you how to use your bike to go from A to B to C, spend the night at D, have lunch at E and then cycle back to A. Tip, you’re going to need more than your bike pump and a banana. Cycling is a fantastic
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From the city to the deep outback, the Mawson Trail is a unique Australian bike ride. Leon Hill makes the tough journey on the Outback Odyssey event. There are some experiences that are unmistakably Australian—climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge, gazing on Uluru at first light and cycling the Outback Odyssey. While the latter mightn’t be
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With a deadline for dinner drawing them on, Peter Foot recounts a beguiling journey through a surprising landscape. Mouldy carpet and body spray. I pull open the door and it hits me—full-bodied, tangy, evocative. It is the smell of the end carriage of a V/Line train. The smell of a thousand trips into the countryside.
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Just in time for some easy day-touring in the glorious conditions of autumn, Karen Graham suggests some of her favourite rail trails. We were lazing at a train station on a brisk autumn morning when a bike rider approached us. He slowed momentarily to say, “I have it on good authority that the train won’t
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Orange, in New South Wales’ Central West region, is going mad for cycling. Local enthusiast and advocate David Waddell takes us on a tour of what’s on offer. Heaving myself out of the saddle to climb the last 50m stretch of the Pinnacle on a midday ride with mates I couldn’t help but reflect how
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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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Caroline Thurlow discovers the off-road delights of Australia’s heights. I have been fascinated with the history and beauty of the Snowy Mountains since first catching a glimpse of the serene scenery as a girl watching the movie The Man from Snowy River. Until recently, however, I hadn’t really thought a lot about riding a bike
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What started out as a quest for an elusive fish has turned into an annual two-wheeled odyssey. Cycling author Bruce Ashley reports on a decade of reconnaissance of a largely unknown but close-by Pacific neighbour. Being a bit of an outdoorsy person and a fishing tragic, an article in Aussie flyfishing mag extolling the virtues
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Rainforest, sand, mud and crocs—what could be a better bike adventure than the trek to Cape York? Jon Miller rode 1,600km and made it back to tell the tale. I am riding along a dusty, corrugated road in far north Queensland. A car coming the other way, pulls up a little ahead of me. As I approach,
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Arlen Keen goes island hopping on Japan’s Shimanami Kaido bike route. The ‘Shimanami Kaido’ or ‘Sea Route’ is an impressive feat of engineering—a 60km islandhopping expressway opened in 1999 to link the main Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku by road. The expressway bounces across half a dozen tiny islands in the Seto Inland Sea, thanks to a series of architecturally diverse suspension bridges.
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