Busy day getting stuff sorted. Two trips out to Co-motion. Ended the day with a detour to check out the river and some more of Eugene's bike paths. Serendipity (ie. Marc deciding we should walk umpteen blocks to check out a different food strip that we saw earlier in the afternoon + me whingeing about …
New bike day :)
Today was the big day. We drove out to Co-motion (not without me stuffing up the navigation AGAIN.) Saddles and seatpost on. A couple of rides and a couple of adjustments. A drive back into town to take back the hire car, visit the bank (a bit of lunch), and then the guy from Co-motion …
Getting closer to tandem time.
It's my fault we're not going to meet the new bike this arvo - I insisted that we should just 'duck into' downtown Portland city just so we could feel we'd kinda seen it. The consequent driving around looking for parking, then walking several blocks looking for food kind of chewed up time. (All this …
The Streets of….
... yep, San Francisco. You wouldn't need the name on the cable car to guess which city you were if you'd been dropped into the middle of the city. All the traffic was quite sedate around town though - either not the day - or the era - for those infamous car chases …
This time next week….
... we will be riding this little beauty! We'll probably! get them to put on our saddles and my Thudbuster seat post - which are sitting here ready to be packed. And then maybe they'll add the stoker bars for me to hang on to. (Unlike those do-nothing pillion motorbike passengers, there's no waist …
Three weeks out from the big trip.
Interrupted the renovations to go for a ride. Feeling a bit underdone on the ride prep, and we have our newbie navigational/route recording technologies to trial and set up the way we want. And I've had to dust off the WordPress app and remember how it all worked. I can't figure out how I got …
USA Tour. Eugene, Oregon to San Francisco – it’s on!
It's happening! Last weekend we hit up Marc's long-accumulated Frequent Flyer points, and booked our return flights to San Francisco. We've allowed a month in total - allowing ourselves about 3 weeks of riding, and a few days up our sleeve at either end. We had actually sussed out available flights a couple of …
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2006 NSW Big Ride
I was thinking back today about how we initially caught the touring bug. While perhaps not qualifying as 'pure' cycle touring (what is?), our first Bicycle NSW Big Ride, 11 years ago, was probably where it all began. Back when we scarred our kids for life and made them ride 500k over 9 days. (Even …
Day 9-LAST DAY – Forries Beach to Hornsby via Patonga-Bobbin Head ferry
Working backwards from the time we needed to arrive at Patonga - for the 11.30 ferry - we concluded that we needed to leave around 7am. We didn't have any supplies for breakfast in the motel, so (breaking my cardinal rule of 'must eat before riding, otherwise I might die') we hit out for the 14k …
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Tandem Tours 