Cycling Australia's East Coast on rail trails and country roads - Gladstone to Sydney
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Beginning in Gladstone Qld, we rode 1800km down Australia's East Coast, to Sydney. We took in as many off road routes as possible including all the rail trails we could find, as well as plenty of national park trails, and quiet country dirt roads. We camped for the majority of our time in Australia, finding some beautiful country and coastal campsites along the way. We encountered sunshine and rain, lots of Aussie wildlife, as well as a few Aussies with bad attitudes towards cyclists.
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It was great catching up with you both in Linville for a drink. It was definitely a highlight for Zane and I meeting you and talking all things Bikepacking. Look forward to seeing your future travels! Cheers.
Hey! Cheers for writing, we lost you guys when that rain storm hit.. we woke up in a pretty big puddle that morning.. was great to meet you both too, thoroughly enjoyed the bikepacking chat. Goodluck with the planned ride down to Sydney!
I met you both at the river outside Wolf Point Montana. Hope all is going well. I subbed to your channel. All the best in your travels! Cheers!
Hey man! Thanks! I subbed to your too but haven't had a chance to watch any vids yet, looking forward to seeing the meanest town in America! We're doing good, America is treating us well. Hope all's good with you and your travelling somewhere fun 🤙
@@weridebikesplaces I'm glad you're getting treated well! Keep on! I'm in Manitoba Canada now.
Never enough peanut butter. Thanks for the video and hope you enjoy riding in Canada and the U.S.
Ha peanut butter is our life blood, goes on everything! Cheers, we're loving it here in Canada
4:36 - the Stockman's Route. Was this along the Old Esk Road?
We rode that route from Nanango to Blackbutt and it was a very memorable ride. Only about 50km but we began too late in the morning from Nanango. The first 20k were fine ten we came to the 'closed to vehicles' 'impassable road' signs. Pressing on the river crossing was OK, then some nice valley riding for a few kms. The final steep climb was "only 2km" but was some of the steepest, roughest degraded 4WD track that I have ever ridden. Took us a couple of hours to haul the bikes up, FINALLY we got to blacktop as the su set and we rode the last 20km into Blackbutt in the pitch black dark.
Yep that's the one. There were some bits that were very rutted out and I'm sure would have been impassable at the wrong time of year
@@weridebikesplaces we rode it in July 2018. The steep climb had huge boulders embedded in the 'track' and this was more due to the gradient and erosion from the few 4WDs that had accessed it, rather than the weather. Only place where I have been pushing the bike and came to an absolute stop due to boulders. I had to remove the front panniers to move the bike!
I hear you on aussie drivers man. I've ridden that leg of the pacific highway from port mac to sydney a few times, and despite there being clear signs and markings that bikes are meant to ride on the highway shoulder, you get beeped and abused usually every day.
Yeah the mentality is a bit sad. It's by far the worst we've had from anywhere in the world. We get it on every type of road in Australia
@@weridebikesplaces To be fair the people hurling abuse are usually the dumbest of bogans, and yelling something out a car window before speeding away is probably the closest they've come to feeling like they've won a verbal exchange.
Thanks for the videos mate. I'm planning a tour of indo soon and your videos have cemented my plans.
100% agree. Awesome mate Indo is great. So much good food, and friendly people. Enjoy 😊
I bet you 10 bucks that you miss Asian already ! I know I do ! It has been 13 years since I did a tour of Asia and there is not a day that goes past that I don't miss been able to stop anywhere and get something to eat or somewhere to spend the night and cheap as chips.
Ha yeah Asia was bike touring paradise! We're currently riding through Canada though which is pretty nice to say the least. Asia will be the first place we go back to though 👍
Come to Victoria if you really want to ride rail trails that are "pretty well kept and easy riding". Queensland rarely does this, and NSW has almost zero rail trails.
Looking forward to riding Victoria one day!
Can I ask, why do you wear such dark clothing without even a hi viz vest in such bad visibility weather as a minimum .
Unfortunately we just didn't have a high vis vest with us. I have a high vis helmet, and we always ride with front and rear lights on in those conditions
@@weridebikesplaces "unfortunately" not being seen is often the reason given for cyclists killed on roads by other road users. I personally carry a hi viz throw over for times that I'm not wearing hi viz clothing, day or night. In your video, it shows your hi viz helmet is ineffective while covered by your dark wet weather gear hood. With respect, I'm only saying this as I don't want to hear either or both of you being injured or worse while out riding on roads.
Yeah we were a bit underprepared for this section of our trip, and this much rain. After being in Asia for over a year we're used to drivers just looking out for other things like bikes on the road..
@@weridebikesplaces I understand. Many Australian road users drive with the wrong attitude and in a unsafe manner which means others have to cater for. Keep as safe as you can at all times. All the best on your travels.
@@johndee68 "I didn't see him" is the bogan driver's excuse. The real meaning of the phrase is "I was not actually LOOKING" or "I don't care about cyclists' lives" 😠
Plenty of people wearing hi-viz*, using reflective, and running good lights have been killed by negligent drivers.
'Stay Safer; Ride Wider!'
* Often the hi-viz is just a lure to drivers who want to assault riders.