Do you read my posts and keep thinking, I wish I was riding a bicycle? Or do you wish your best friend would come and ride with you on that great country trail. Share your story or ask the simple questions on my new private Facebook group. Now with nearly 500 members. Lets go […]
A few weeks ago I setup a new Private Facebook group call Lets Go Cycling The purpose of the group is to encourage people to go cycling or to help them find places on a bicycle. In other-words, cycling stories, maps and just happy cycling photos. Anyone can contribute, its quite a lively group and […]
Most of the readers of this blog will either be house bound or doing some important job that the rest of us really admire. So its time to just churn out a bunch of Screen Savers so you can see the real world even lying on the couch. First up we have the Queen of […]
Everyone in the world needs to sit on the couch. That’s pretty easy. Now you need to exercise. So turn on your Strava and make a map that looks like this. That was easy. Do it NOW Sears house and description here.
In April we were going on a Barge trip from Amsterdam to Bruges. That ain’t happening for pretty obvious reasons. So now I am going to pass on some of the cycling links that I came across apart from the Barge cruise. Dutch day trips or Tulip Tours or one big Tulip Tour In Germany […]
A few articles I came across in December that you may have missed on my Facebook pages. Help our cities before its too late (a good video) https://www.brompton.com/campaign-for-movement/ One of our inland cities, Wagga Wagga was included in the list of the best 10 beaches in Australia. It also happens to have a few bike […]
From Andrew Cole – Really Fat Tire MTB Lover I was thankful to be invited on a Brad Cook ride into Goodnight Scrub today and despite the heat, we found some unique landscapes. Most of this country has been underwater but the release of water from Paradise Dam has exposed old waterways and ghost forests […]
Here are the best 3 bicycle infrastructure improvements in 2019 across the whole of Sydney. To win, there must be an increase in the numbers of people using the path, the path has to pretty safe, good looking and fun to ride. It doesn’t have to be long if it connects existing trails better. 1st […]
I have just finished a normal holiday tour of Vietnam and loved it. I wrote a little about my thoughts on cycling in Vietnam here. I did observe that it would be good to join a group becuase of the difficulties of moving around safely near the normal tourists haunts. Little did I know that […]
When it comes to Cycling in Vietnam, I know very little and that is likely the position you will be in when you come to Vietnam. So here are the main facts. Everyone in Vietnam rides a motor scooter all the time, sure there are a few people who ride bicycles and a few cars […]
When I first started thinking about Sydney trails, my head was filled with thoughts of steep hills, cars and faded white pictures of bikes on green patches on the road. After a much exploring, I can now reveal that Sydney has some very good places to ride if you have the motivation to going exploring. […]
I have setup a new private Facebook group, Lets Go Cycling, The aim of the group is to encourage more people to go cycling. One way I do this is to release photos of trails and stuff on trails worth viewing. But did you know that many photos have the GPS location embedded in them. […]
Parramatta was the first place in Australia for farming European style and significant relics of those really early days exist in the area today. You can catch up on the history here without leaving your lounge chair or you can ride a bike with Paul from Parramatta Heritage rides as my wife and I did […]
This is a link to the Google map of all the decent trails around Sydney
As my friends Howie and Gaz were both arriving from the Hume Highway, I decided day 1 of our ride down the complete length of Canberra would start in the far north. I picked a football oval with lots of parking in Casey and we headed there. It was 8:30 in the morning and I […]