One of the wonderful things about the net is there’s so many resources out there for cycle tourists – here’s some of my favourites.
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About Cycle Touring
Cycle touring is something I’ve loved ever since I was at boarding school in the early 1980’s and did a couple for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards (which by the way I highly recommend).
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Just a quick discussion on what resources I’m looking at now
Continue reading “Malaysian Bike Ride – Ep 2 – Resources”Malaysian Bike Ride Ep.1 – Early Planning
I was born in Malaysia (way back in the 60’s) and turned 1 the day after we came back to Australia from there, so I don’t have any memories of it and I haven’t been back there since, and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do.
Continue reading “Malaysian Bike Ride Ep.1 – Early Planning”Cooyar Bike Ride – January 2020
This was the first lengthy bike ride I’d done for quite sometime – it was going to be one day up, camp over in a national park, and then one day back ~ I ended up just doing the one day and camp, as it turned out to be some of the hardest cycling I’ve done – and I just wasn’t ready for that in a number of ways.
Continue reading “Cooyar Bike Ride – January 2020”Brisbane Valley Rail Trail – Esk to Coominya – 12th of July 2018
Dennis had been planning a ride on the Toogoolawah to Lowood section of the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail for sometime, and invited us along. We managed to park the kids for the day so it was just Jenny and myself along with Dennis and Christian, on a Thursday in July.
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Coochiemudlo Island is a small island in southern Moreton Bay and is quite close to Brisbane. In the local Yuggera language it means red rock – owing to the iron rich rock exposed on the southern side of the Island. It is mainly a holiday island for Brisbanites, and was visited by Matthew Flinders in 1799.
Continue reading “Coochiemudlo Island Cycle Trip – 7th of October 2013”Oxley Common – 10th of August 2013
We’d been doing quick little visits into Oxley Common for years but only saying gidday to the horses at the front, or having a quick look around the creek and picnic area – in fact it became one of my favourite places to write the script for Honeysuckle Way ~ but this was the first time we cycled into the whole of it, and boy oh boy was it wonderful – this was only a few months before we left Brisbane and I really regret we hadn’t done this sooner because it really is a magical place, and I don’t think our photos here really do it justice.
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I recently received a second hand copy of Where to Ride South East Queensland and have spent a fair bit of time going through it. There’s a lot of rides in locations I never would have thought about , which is one of the best things about the book – but it also gives you lots of information on the difficulty and gradient of the rides – which is really useful when planning a ride with small children.
Continue reading “Jacobs Well Bike Ride – 28th of July 2012”Europe Cycle Trip 1999 – Part 1 – Leaving
When Jenny and I first got together one thing we quickly learnt was that we had both done a lot of cycle touring ~ in fact her a lot more than me. I also soon learnt that she was planning a trip back to her home country of Ireland in mid ’99 – and after we decided we’d get married well it became pretty obvious what to do!
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