Fat Bike Cycle Touring – Ravenswood to the Burdekin Dam to Mt Coolon return
It’s been a while! In fact it has been nearly two years ago since we last went on a cycle touring trip. After that six week adventure we progressed through […]
Category Archives: Townsville
Hughenden to Charters Towers to Townsville
The next post is a couple of days late. We actually arrived home in Townsville two days ago on Thursday afternoon after a looong day…but you will read about that […]
Townsville to Ravenswood – Day 1
It’s day 7 of our trip and we have internet for the first time since we left Ravenswood, giving us the opportunity to update the blog and check out the […]
Packing for cycle touring –
We normally pack the night or two before we leave on a cycle tour, but this trip was decided on so far in advance that we are feeling the pressure. We […]
Rohloff reflections
We were thrilled when the Rohloff hub turned up for our Salsa Powderkeg, the tandem bicycle we had for about a year before deciding to splurge on this German gear […]
Townsville – Ravenswood – Giru – Townsville – Part 2 & 3
There was no need to leave early on Saturday, but we woke with the sun and slowly started preparing for the day with tea and coffee and breakfast. It seems […]
Townsville – Ravenswood – Giru – Townsville – Part 1
Google maps showed a dirt road that crosses from the Flinder’s Highway over to Ravenswood through the farmland and scrub. Internet searching showed other maps that also indicated a through […]
Out the back of Hervey’s…
It poured all day Saturday, then cleared beautifully for a clear (and humid) ride out of town, up Hervey Range and beyond. We only had the day, but wanted to […]
Townsville-Gregory Developmental Rd-Charters Towers-Townsville
We were a bit worried about our latest cycle touring trip. Not that we couldn’t do it, but that we were not really that fit and 360kms with a loaded […]
Giru Overnighter
If we had known there was going to be a strong headwind the whole 80 kilometres to Giru, the crowd may have been smaller. Riding a fully loaded touring bike […]
