Our intrepid adventurers were glad to get some relief from the scorching sun last night, settling into our beautiful campsite nestled among trees and hills in the valley. Having set up camp, Yackandandah was thronged with riders – some discovering the local pool, others seeking shade in the beer gardens of the town’s two pubs
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Victoria’s High Country has offerings to please every palate, discovers Jon Miller. If you’re one of those people who packs your bike away over winter, perhaps you should think again. Maybe the warming qualities of one of Rutherglen’s legendary tawnys or muscats will tempt you to get out and ride this winter. If this doesn’t do it, perhaps the thought of
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Showered with unprecedented federal government funding, the 134km Tallarook to Mansfield Rail Trail is racing towards its target opening date of Christmas 2011. Arlen Keen takes a look at what’s already on offer. Winter in the foothills of Victoria’s Alpine region, the air chilled and the smell of wood smoke taking over Mansfield’s main street,
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Rich in rail trails, Gippsland has some shorter options that are often overlooked but well worth a visit. Jon Miller has some route suggestions. Gippsland has long been a source of farm produce, timber and minerals for the people and businesses of Melbourne. From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, a veritable spider’s web of railway lines
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Jon Miller jumped at the chance to ride Victoria’s High Country Brewery Trail and sample some of the liquid gold being concocted in the region. Any mountain biker worth their mud-splattered scars knows that beers and mountain bikes are an obvious pairing. A small group of brewers in Victoria’s north east have embraced this and
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