First up, I don’t like mixing my cycling with politics. I cycle to escape the rest of the world and it’s problems – so this will be short and a one off. Here goes. I love guns. I even did a little sporting target shooting as a junior (not bad with a pistol, rubbish with…
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Maze in honour of Richie Porte!
Check this out! Hardcore Richie Porte fan and Tasmanian farmer Rowan Clark has gone to great lengths to create this incredible maze, celebrating the Tassie cycling icon. A tractor, a GPS, a shipload of creativity and a night’s work and you get this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-13/richie-porte-maze-tribute/9425524 How cool is that? :-)
Australia Day 2018
Happy Australia Day folks! :-) I’ve been back in the lucky country for coming up to two years now and it’s been a whirlwind ride so far. I couldn’t live back on mainland Australia, but this little island in the south is perfect! This is also the first Australia Day where I’ve owned my own…
Road account opened for the new year!
I was going to limit myself to a spin on the turbo, but with weather like this it’d be a sin not to clock up a few road miles! I needed to see if I’d healed enough after my crash a few days ago anyway. So head out into the sunshine I did, another New…
A bigger bike shed (aka Home sweet Tassie home!)
You may have noticed it’s been a little bit quiet on the new posts front here over the past month or so. Well there has been a legit reason… We did it! April and I finally and officially have bought our very own little piece of Tasmania! :-) It’s our first ever home buy –…
What weekends are made for!
Daylight saving has kicked in, the days are getting longer, warmer and so much brighter. Summer is on it’s way! For the first time in a while I rode outside both Saturday AND Sunday. Sure I’ve been hitting the trainer and Zwift with a vengeance, but there’s nothing quite like two beautifully sunny and perfect…