jur

Photo essay of our Tasmania cycling tour:

https://tinyurl.com/234qv2

Let me know what you think.

BAL

Much thanks for sharing photos of your ride. I envy your time on the bike and the fact that you have someone willing to share your passion with you. What a trooper your partner was to make it 22 days on the trail with what appeared to be a significant amount of climbing.

GeoKrpan

Well done, thank you.

Robert_in_ca

I enjoyed reading it, thanks!

Your commute looks like fun too!

xilios

Thanks good read and nice pics, looks like you had a great time.
cheers

Machka 

Very nice. I can't wait to go back there!


If you check out the two collections called "Australian Adventure", you'll see some photos of Tasmania in both collections (at the end of the first and at the beginning of the second) ... you'll recognize some of those places!

https://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/machka999/my_photos

Hobartlemagne 

Beautiful photos

thestoutdog

Thanks much, you're an inspiration to my wife and I

ShortCircuit

Great photo jounal, Jur
I enjoyed it very much.
I am hoping that Tasmania can be my next long bicycle touring adventure...hoping for 2008 or 09. Having just viewed your pics, maybe I'll have to shoot for '08!
Cheryl

drissel

Great pictures, thanks for sharing...

EZ-SportAX Curt

Here's a great site for posting journals

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/

Shemp

Thanks for sharing!

becnal

Great photos! What kind of bikes are those?

jur

My bike is a modded Raleigh Twenty (see Sheldon Brown for more info on those) and my wife's is a Dahon/Yeah, almost identical to a Dahon Helios, but modded with better drive train. Both have 20" wheels.

IMHO these 20" bikes are great for loaded touring, partly because of the low center of gravity of the load - makes for stable riding. Plus the wheels are stronger.

becnal

I love your photo essays. I just checked out your commute! Great stuff!

stevegor

Jur,
I agree about the stability of a fully loaded, (NO! I don't mean DRUNK.....rider or bike), 20" bike, I have had my R20 (The Wasp) with panniers F&R and it feels great, very safe.

Just viewed your Tassie trip....all I can say is....WOW!!
My hope is to get my wife riding enough to one day join me on similar adventures, hoping to do Wang to Bright railtrail later this year. You are very lucky that SWMBO (Connie) has such a keen interest in cycling, cos I figure it's nicer to ride with the one you love than old racing mates who just talk BLAH BLAH BLAH, plus the added bonus of a nice cuddle at the end of the day!!??

becnal

I know what you mean, that's why I just picked up a used tandem from ebay. The misses loves it!

Cave

Great photos! I was on a group ride (Great Tassie) earlier this year, the East Coast photos brought back some good memories. Looking forward to doing the West and the Midlands - one day, one day.

The East Coast bushfire areas were sobering, but the sight of greenery sprouting through the blackened forest was encouraging. I was touring in NE Vic when the fires started near Mansfield and Whitfield - fortunately well clear by the time things really got going.

Can't say I've had as much luck with 20" bikes - I had a Dahon wheel self-destruct (loose spokes) leaving me stranded in Mclaren Vale (fortunately a short walk to the nearest servo with a pay phone). Very handy to travel with, though - maybe I should give it another go (NZ in May!) - might keep an eye out for a Raleigh 20, there seem to be quite a few old ones around in Melbourne.

Cave

Hey, the Basin to Olinda is one of my favourite rides! (from Oakleigh, ~60km round trip). (Franga via Dandie Creek Trail is also a good one from where I live).

You do 15% on 46x16? Wow.

jur

Well BIG thanks for all the comments *blushes *, from Connie also.

The 46x16 singlespeed is undergoing conversion to fully geared again, for my daughter. That 15% slope is short, thankfully, so I could make it with big effort before blowing up. It's not much of a trick if short enough.

Re 20" wheels, when these are properly tensioned up they are very strong. Dahon has a policy that before their bikes are released to customers, the LBS should go over the wheels, but I suspect many don't do this, hence your weak wheel that left you stranded. I built 3 wheels out of the 4 on those 2 bikes and tensioned the stock front one on the Yeah. It was very dodgy, plus the bearing was over tight.

Cave

I agree 20" wheels should be stronger than larger ones with similar spokes/rims and that my experience was due to incorrect tensioning. The thing that annoys me is that I specifically asked for the wheels to be hand-trued and tensioned and was assured this had been done!

Serves me right for travelling with a new bike, I guess.

stevegor

It's amazing the amount of negative comment I get from people when they see the 20" wheel bikes I ride.
All the usual "Isn't it slower, or weaker ,etc, etc?" I spend half my time explaining the benefits of aerodynamics, strength and ease of travel and still most don't get it. They think I'm mad riding these "funny little bikes" and when I tell them about how a Moulton still holds the speed record for an upright bike, either their feeble little brains explode or their eyes glaze over and I feel like chopping them up into a thousand pieces....oops, I didn't mean that.

pathebikeguy

Looks like you had a great time. Good company, beautiful scenery. Its quite a ways from Canada but someday I might get out there too.
https://www.geocities.com/pathebikeguy

vik 

Thanks for the pics. Keeps me sane until the next time I can get out on tour.

Nermal

Lovely, and nicely done photos, too.

Still, couldn't you have gotten just one picture of Kirk the thickhead ferryman and his crappy little dingy?