Bicycle touring posts in Australia. Entries will also include rest days.
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 3rd March, 2020 Bathurst (08:05) 11.57 km 14.8 km/h Dunkeld (09:58) 0 hr 44 min 250.66 km Today, I had planned to cycle on to Bathurst. About a couple of hours into the day, which was slow going, the weather was starting to turn rather quickly. At Dunkeld, I...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 2nd March, 2020 Lithgow (08:18) 63.38 km 15.2 km/h Bathurst (16:06) 4 hr 11 min 239.09 km Today was a fairly straightforward day, basically just to get from Lithgow to Bathurst. I left just after 08:00, from the motel I was staying at, and took the main...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 1st March, 2020 Katoomba (08:36) 37.92 km 15.6 km/h Lithgow (14:16) 2 hr 26 min 175.71 km After a restful night, still very satisfied from succeeding where I’d failed on two previous attempts at making it all the way to Katoomba, I set off around 08:30...
Pedal Cure 4 FightMND – 2020 29th February, 2020 Penrith (08:59) 52.94 km 11.8 km/h Katoomba (18:40) 4 hr 30 min 137.79 km Today was going to be a battle. An uphill battle. On two previous occasions, I failed to climb the mountain – once due to running out of daylight and once...
A note to begin with. It’s taken me almost two years to get around to writing these posts. I’ve often thought about writing them, but wondered how I would go about it. As a result, I’ve had to write these posts from memory. while they may be largely accurate, there be be...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2019 Days 5 & 6 – 9th & 10th October, 2019 Day 5 Eglinton (09:18) 28.96 km 13.8 km/h Fitzgerald Mount (14:42) 2:06 209.15 km Last night, I had to make some very difficult decisions. The original plan was to head out west to a little town...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2019 Day 4 – 8th October, 2019 Eglinton 0 km 180.19 km Last night, I had a chat with my Couchsurfing host, John, as to whether I could stay an additional night, and he was more than happy to agree. I definitely needed today’s rest day. After the...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2019 Day 3 – 7th October, 2019 Lithgow (08:55) 65 km 15.1 km/h Eglinton (17:50) 4:19 180.19 km After an unscheduled night’s stay, at the Lithgow Valley Motel, I got going again just before 09:00. The location of the motel was quite convenient...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2019 Day 2 – 6th October, 2019 Katoomba (08:46) 39.37 km 16.2 km/h Lithgow (13:59) 2:26 115.9 km 96 kilometres to Bathurst! Day 2 started, as planned, from Katoomba. After a later than planned departure (due to the moving forward of clocks, with the...
Cycle Against the Beast – 2019 Day 1 – 5th October, 2019 Sydney Cricket Ground (07:31) 75.82 km 14.6 km/h Blaxland (15:48) 5:13 75.82 km The day has arrived – with lots of heavy rain! My second Cycle Against the Beast bicycle ride for FightMND. To donate, please go to: A...