This year’s Tour Divide is done and dusted! For those unfamiliar, the Tour Divide is an off-road, unsupported bicycle ride from Banff, Canada, to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, on the US-Mexico border. I’m incredibly happy and thankful to have completed the ride within my originally budgeted 25 days. Covering a Read more
Well what can I say about completing my first 1000km bikepacking event (furthest that I have ridden in a single event so far) but what an adventure. This inaugural ride had a good mix of elevation and flat, with hot days in the north and cool nights in the ranges. Read more
Hope you like “bikes leaning against things” photos. 29-30 March 2021: Bit of a tour around some of the mid central of Victoria. Day one was following the GDT Castlemaine to Ballarat, which was mainly on singletrack and sometimes difficult to find the correct track. 253km 3,900m elevation gain, averaged Read more
Is great to be finally traveling by plane to somewhere. I haven’t flown since July 2019. Made sure my cardboard bike box got on board though. For some reason or other my Garmin didn’t record the final 50km of the 2021 650km Brisdivide that started and finished at Mt Coot-tha Read more
2021 Cloudride Prologue 500km bikepacking event done. Beat my time from last year (difficult to judge though as the route changes every year), hit my daily goals, had no mechanical or tyre problems and didn’t fall off the bike. Great event and am getting better and more knowledgeable every year. Read more
I met Dante in Queanbeyan to start the ride at 6:30am to Moruya. This ride was 85% dirt road and 15% bitumen. The ride was very pleasant and sunny along Captains Flat until we’ve reached Coxes Creek which was the highest point for this ride at 1,100m. It was cold Read more
2020, 500km Monaro Cloudride Prologue The 500km Monaro Cloudride Prologue is an annual bikepacking event held in Canberra, Australia over the Canberra day long weekend, in early March. This event is designed to be a pre-curser to the 1000km version or for people just getting into self-supported long distance bikepacking. Read more
Majura Pines – ACT The following are taken from my Jet setting Josh Facebook page and personal Facebook page, of all the bikepacking and other cycling I have completed 31 Dec 2018 – Mount Pleasent Lookout Final road ride for 2018 done, 60km in 2h 15mins around Lake Burley Griffin. Time now Read more