Yikes! The end of November (2021) already and I’ve only ridden 1,300 km in the past 6 months since my last multi-day trip in early May #86 Crossing the Great Divide. I can mostly blame the latest COVID 19 lockdown for this (we did just achieve the world’s record for duration of lockdown, after all…
Category: eBiking Australia
eBiking Australia covers my blogs about touring around Australia on an electric-assist bicycle. Find out how I am able to cover long distances in a country where power outlets might be 3 or 4 days apart. Share in the highs and lows of the road and marvel at the diverse landscapes from the beaches to the mountains and the arid interior.
#86 Across The Great Divide
A 10-day circular eBike trip out of Melbourne – into the Yarra Ranges, across Gippsland, over Australia’s Great Dividing Range and then looping back around to Melbourne on the Murray-to-Mountains Rail Trail and the Hume Highway (M31).
#85 Melbourne to Gippsland
Just a quick overnighter east of Melbourne as far as the town of Warragul. I didn’t quite get to Gippsland.
#84 Melbourne to Ballan
My Scottish great-grandfather (my mother’s father’s father) migrated to Victoria in 1873 where he ended up owning a drapery store in the township of Ballan, a staging-post on the way from Melbourne to the Ballarat goldfields. Since Ballan is only about 100 km west of Melbourne I decided to cycle out there to see what…
#83 O’Keefe Rail Trail and the Goldfields
After the latest corona scare died down, I tried my luck again in another direction (that is, to anywhere but the midge-infested windy east coast). I made a 4-day round trip to Bendigo, staying overnight in Kilmore, Bendigo and Kyneton. The main objective was to ride the O’Keefe Rail Trail from Heathcote to Bendigo.
#82 Victoria’s East Coast
From snorkelling off Rye beach on the Mornington Peninsula to fishing off the pier in Port Albert, with camping on French Island, Inverloch and Venus Bay in between, made for a really great eBike tour. But then, marooned by a snap corona virus lockdown, I had to sit out 5 days of unrelenting wind and…
#81 The Great Ocean Road
This is eBiking at its best: a Rail Trail from Koroit to Warnambool; through the Otway Ranges; the full length of the 250-km world-renowned Great Ocean Road and on to Geelong, then around the western side of Port Phillip Bay to Melbourne.
#80 Goldfields to Grampians
West from the Goldfields and into the Grampians, then south to the Southern Ocean.
#79 The Victorian Gold Fields
A new year and things are finally looking up. I promise not to use the C-word again. This is a tour through from the city to the towns that grew up out of one of the world’s greatest 19th century gold rushes.
#78 The Yarra Ranges
There’s not much happening around Christmas in these COVID times, so to hell with tradition, let’s go for a ride in the hills around Melbourne.