Forum: MediaCreations Cycles Across Australia

Around 150 km on the road. Great riding. We broke into 2 teams each with our own support vehicle. I sat with the faster team and had a blast. Most of the riders are starting to settle into the routine but many are feeling very sore.

just thought I'd chuck in a post to say that I made across Australia and back...in 1 piece. It sure feels good to know that I've ridden 4200kms, but then I think of Mediacreation, he's done that 5 times now. A tribute to him. But I'm looking forward to the next ride across, it was so much fun....

Great action shot, from somewhere, who knows where across oz.

It's 5:32 am and I've just woken up. In a few hours I'll be riding off into the distance on the first day of a 32 day odyssey across Australia. Anything that hasn't been prepared as yet is too late. It's now time to ride. I've been waiting for this day for a couple of years. The nerves are...

The ride is now over. I'm glad to say that I made every kilometre across the country. We had some good conditions a lotof the way and a fewdays of atrocious conditions. I'm now spending some time with my family in Tasmania. I'll be home on Monday the 20th and in the days after that I'll...

Our first rest day has arrived. We're all happy to have a day off the bike. We're off to Balladonia tomorrow, a distance of 191 km. We'll be riding 7 days straight of those kinds of distances. There's not a lot out there in the middle of Australia so we're just riding from Roadhouse to...

170 km. Even though it was a slightly lower distance it was tough. We changed direction a few times and so the wind wasn't always with us. Sometimes it was right in our faces. There were a number of long hills. Nothing steep but lots of long ones. We ended up averaging righ on 30km/h.

188km. With the wind at our backs all day we averaged over 33km/h. Brilliant. Quite a few hills but we had a great time. The 'Y Team' which is the slightly slower team started to really work well as a team and weren't all that far behind those of us in 'Team Maverick'.

It was a pretty tough morning. We rode for around 50km into a head wind up to morning tea. Once in Merrdin we changed directions and had the wind a lot more behind us. We flew along. Up to morning tea our average was 25km/h. By the end of the day our average for the entire day ws lifted to...

It's almost here. It's 9:20pm on the night before we head out. Final preparations are underway. Here's the Media Release I sent out earlier today. Media Release Sunday, 7 September 2003 Cyclists Here Today - Gone Tomorrow

Today is the 12th of August. It's now less than a month until I cycle off with about 30 other cyclists to ride across Australia. This will be my 5th Nullarbor crossing by bicycle and I'm really looking forward to it. Like with so many things, I could do with several more months to prepare but...