Distance - 135kms
Climbing - 126 metres
View the ride here:
A fabulous day for cycling - light winds, blue skies, temps in the mid 20s, no hills and bitumen roads. When conditions are like this, you grab the big chainring and turn as hard as you can for as long as you can. For us, that meant 135 km in about 6 1/2 hours at an average of better than 20 km/h. I've never travelled that far towing before, neither has Brian. Of course it was a pleasure to be towing the Kracka Adventure Series Looking for Ludwich Lychardt model bike trailer.
Robinvale is a top place. There are many first and second generation Australians here which makes it interesting. The road out of Robinvale has vineyards and orchards either side, all meticulously maintained. Seems to be a lot of money here.
When you get past Boundary Bend there are kilometres and kilometres of almond orchards, cereal crops, even rice.
Plan for tomorrow is to get to Gunnower, which is about 110kms. Winds have a bit of Westerly in them tomorrow, so that could help.
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Well done boys. I did not see you on the road today as you were too damn fast. Good riding
ReplyDeleteHi Tony I'm an old school mate of Brian's from way back - nice work on the blog and great pics. Thought I might remind Brian that back in the 1860's they started fitting motors to bicycles and when he bought his DT125 back in '76 I mistakenly thought he had caught on! (To much listening to Supertramp cassettes perhaps!) Keep pedaling lads and soak it up....life is for living go to it - cheers Dean Maynard
ReplyDeleteBrian here Reggje. Good to hear from you. I have at least one machine in my stable with an engine but I thought it would be unfair on Tony to use it on a cycling trip. Not very blog worthy either. Perhaps we could do a Redbanks reenactment with our latest machines.
DeleteCripes there's a nickname I haven't heard in 35ish years! Yep always up for a ride anytime and got the blog bug on a ride/adventure of my own last year. Check it out if you're bored or the book next to the dunny is finished at itsalongwaythere.blogspot.com and we can compare how crap we look after all these years! (I'm the bald one) Great to see you guys giving life a push (pedal?) and I shall be watching your progress avidly - Cheers Dean
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