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Community => Cycle Tours => Topic started by: onmybike on August 04, 2014, 11:25:30 AM
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Finally finished my crazyguy travelogue of last summer's 600km ride in Australia's Snowy Mountains. Very mountainous and much of it in National Parks and State Forests on dirt trails and roads.
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=PS&doc_id=13556&v=81 (http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=PS&doc_id=13556&v=81)
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Hello onmybike,
Thanks for posting the details of your Ozzy trip.
I enjoyed your description and the photos.
Don't know why I am the first to reply but I really appreciate the effort you went to do the trip and then share your ride with the forum.
Best wishes,
Barry.
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just gonna pop over there now to have a look . ;)
jags.
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talk about a small world photo 43 and guess who pops up. ;D ;D
so far so good amazing country BIG mega BIG. 8)
jags.
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Wow just looked at all 105 photos amazing country amazing tour .
thanks for shareing how did bike and gear preform would you change anything .
jags.
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The shot of the Comedians cycling out caught my eye as it look like they have a slab of cold ones on a rear rack. Class ;)
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;D ;D ;D great eye for detail..
jags.
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God's Own Country. We should send them a little of our rain though, eh, Anto.
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My favorite pic is the one of the wooden barn.
Where next, Sydney?
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My favorite pic is the one of the wooden barn.
Where next, Sydney?
More of the same - I plan on a longer ride this summer but again in the Australian Alps. It's too convenient - out the front door and I'm there.
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Wow just looked at all 105 photos amazing country amazing tour .
thanks for shareing how did bike and gear preform would you change anything .
jags.
Thanks Jags. The only trouble I had was the front tire moving on the rim and shearing valves.
A weird one that, but after the fourth or fifth incident (all on long, steep dirt descents) I finally figured out that, on inflation, the slick plastic schwalbe rim tape was being gripped by the tire (Conti Top Contact) bead and was being pulled between the bead and rim wall. So under the harshest conditions consisting of heavy braking, heavily laden bike, heavy rider, steep descent, super hot rims and powdery dirt surface (grip, slide, grip, slide...) there was enough play for the tire to start rotating on the rim. Very frustrating as it meant I couldn't really enjoy the downhills, and indeed had to walk down some of the better ones as I was a long, long way from the nearest bike shop and was riding on tubes with some very dubious valve repairs.
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Hello onmybike,
Thanks for posting the details of your Ozzy trip.
I enjoyed your description and the photos.
Don't know why I am the first to reply but I really appreciate the effort you went to do the trip and then share your ride with the forum.
Best wishes,
Barry.
Thanks Bazza. I was hanging out for recognition! ;D
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God's Own Country. We should send them a little of our rain though, eh, Anto.
yes Andre and we wouldn't charge him a cent. ;D ;D
seriously tho it must be a mega country to tour, tough cycling i would imagine .
we done have anything like that kinda terraine here in soggy ireland.
during the summer i was getting a lot of punctures from a faulty valve i wonder was i having the same problem as onmybike ::)
jags.