Bicycle touring posts in Australia. Entries will also include rest days.
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 6th March, 2022 Temora (07:10) 22.01 km 18 km/h Mimosa (08:46) 1:13:34 209.45 km Coolamon (12:23) 10.6 km 17.4 km/h The Gap (13:01) 0:36:33 220.05 km It was an early start to the day and spirits were high. The tyre felt fine, with no loss of pressure...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 5th March, 2022 Temora 0 km 187.44 km Today was the day to check out of my hotel room, as I would be staying at the local footy club with the rest of the Pedal Cure 4 MND guys. Like the day before, I went in search for a bacon and egg roll. It wasn’t...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 4th March, 2022 Temora 0 km 187.44 km Today, I’m moving from my room in the motel at the rear, to one of the rooms in the hotel itself. They said that would take about an hour to prepare, which gave me enough time to find a bacon and egg roll. I...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 3rd March, 2022 Cootamundra (07:46) 57.91 km 20 km/h Temora (12:14) 2:53:47 187.44 km I checked out of the motel at 07:45. The weather was clear skies. A nice change from the last several days. It was going to be nice to get back on the bike again. I stopped...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 2nd March, 2022 Cootamundra 0 km 129.53 km Waking refreshed, I decided to take the bike out for a little spin. I rode down to the railway station to take a photograph of the preserved semaphore signal gantry. Preserved semaphore signal gantry at Cootamundra...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 1st March, 2022 Cootamundra 0 km 129.53 km My train arrived in Cootamundra in the early hours of the morning (around 01:45). As nothing was open at this time of morning, I opted to remain at the station. I’ve slept at stations before. How hard can it...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 28th February, 2022 Picton NSW Trainlink N/A Cootamundra Various Cootamundra Another look at the weather forecast this morning. Suffice to say, it was grim. Not just for today, but for the rest of the week. There was absolutely no way that I was going to...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 27th February, 2022 Camden (09:42) 28.94 km 15 km/h Picton (13:21) 1:56:03 129.53 km Argyle Street, Camden. After yesterday’s killer of a ride, I have no idea how far I’d make it today. Ideally, I’d like to make it through to Mittagong or...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2022 26th February, 2022 Cronulla (09:00) 100.59 km 14.7 km/h Camden (17:58) 6:51:13 100.59 km On my way to Cronulla It was a very wet start to the day. After making my way from home by train, I left South Cronulla Beach right on 09:00 with a very heavy...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 14th March, 2020 Lancefield (06:35) 28.14 km 16 km/h Wildwood (08:55) 1 hr 45 min 1104.7 km It was a dark and stormy night. No, not the beginning of a trashy B-grade novel. It really was a stormy night. Very high winds and plenty of rain. Much of the rain had...