Cycling freindly Regional towns.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby WarrenH » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:41 pm
Adaminaby. Adaminaby although not a large town it certainly is a focus for touring cyclists on their way to entering the Southern ACT, when they are coming up through the mountains. Adaminaby is well positioned for riders coming into NSW from Corryong/Kahncobnan or heading north from Jindabyne ... and smart enough to avoid the Monaro Highway.
Adaminaby has a small shopping centre with excellent facilities for resupplying. The Spot supermarket has a good camping section in the back of the store and they stock both Isopropane and Isopropane Butane for Kovea style burners. There is also an excellent take-away. If you can time visiting on a Thursday morning for resupplying, there is fresh meat in the supermarket ... but its gone by mid afternoon.
Accommodation is good. There is the Snow Goose Hotel and the Alpine Caravan Park, has cabins. The caravan park has good kitchen facilities under awnings for campers.
I like Adaminaby. For fisher cyclists the place is great for buying those regionally and seasonally appropriate flies.
These guys were walking down the main street heading towards the Adaminaby Bowling and Sports Club. Obviously the locals know where to head ... and you (not ewes) can get a good feed there as well.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby Farmer Elvis » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:43 pm
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby silkishuge » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:24 pm
+1 for Gippsland. I spent almost a year there living in a small town called Coronet Bay not far from Philip Island. Lots of nice rides around, friendly group riding on Saturday at Inverloch. Few cars, good drivers and good roads.toppity wrote:Warragul in west Gippsland has a great bike culture. I've written about before on BNA. Daily group rides catering for all different levels. Heaps of participation. They have a very good outdoor velodrome. Two very good LBS's and great roads to ride on. Every style of riding is catered for from flat to ultrasteep road riding, MTB trails and Track. Great culture and great people.
Off to Orange in a week and will report on riding in the area in a few weeks. From what I can see, it seems pretty good too.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby silentbutdeadly » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:18 pm
Amen. Coonabarabran to Tooraweenah is a lovely road. Another fav is the run from Cudal to Eugowra along the Escort Way via Nangar National Park.Farmer Elvis wrote:The quiet roads around Coonabarabran west through the warrumbungle national park really take some beating
As for cycling towns, it is plus one's for Clare, SA and Mildura, Vic. But Clare wins because you can head north from there all the way to Blinman via the Mawson Trail...aftre you've done the Riesling Trail. That said though there is an informal trail system running upstream from Mildura on the Victorian side which'll take you almost all the way along the river to Robinvale...must do that one day , week, month...
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby silkishuge » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:46 am
i should give this route a go since it is at my doorstep. thanks matesilentbutdeadly wrote:Another fav is the run from Cudal to Eugowra along the Escort Way via Nangar National Park.Farmer Elvis wrote:The quiet roads around Coonabarabran west through the warrumbungle national park really take some beating
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby Farmer Elvis » Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:23 pm
Send me a PM Jon and I'll try and go with yousilkishuge wrote:i should give this route a go since it is at my doorstep. thanks matesilentbutdeadly wrote:Another fav is the run from Cudal to Eugowra along the Escort Way via Nangar National Park.Farmer Elvis wrote:The quiet roads around Coonabarabran west through the warrumbungle national park really take some beating
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Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby Parrott » Sun May 27, 2012 10:56 am
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby shann » Sun May 27, 2012 4:37 pm
Karratha has some goodish MTB trails up in the hills behind it, and there is a local group who are building more. It's not much chop for road cycling at the moment though, with all the road works happening.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby Aushiker » Wed May 30, 2012 8:51 pm
Sounds like I have made the right decision to skip it then on my Dreaming Tour. Have decided to turn at Port Hedland and head directly to Karijini now.shann wrote:Karratha has some goodish MTB trails up in the hills behind it, and there is a local group who are building more. It's not much chop for road cycling at the moment though, with all the road works happening.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby WyvernRH » Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:18 pm
Also of course Dungog hosts the 3-day Dungog Pedalfest annually on the first weekend September. Excellent organized rides, bushdance etc etc.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby slowrider68 » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:33 pm
cheers
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby clackers » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:44 pm
Sounds good, Slowrider. My wife and I did some riding around McLaren Vale and the Fleuerieu Peninsula last year and that was great fun.slowrider68 wrote:The Barossa valley in south australia is becoming really good with new bike paths and lots of wineries and things to look at all in easy riding distances
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby WarrenH » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:10 am
I notice that Oz's biggest country town Canberra, doesn't feature on this map ... including Canberra on this map would be embarrassing for all of NSW.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby Aushiker » Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:03 pm
and even puts on fireworks for visiting cycle tourists (photos taken from my campsite whilst I was in town)
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby DrJay » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:46 pm
Where are you at? I'm in Orange, but when I tried Cudal via Molong (nice ride) I terminally flatted on Peabody Road.silkishuge wrote:i should give this route a go since it is at my doorstep. thanks matesilentbutdeadly wrote:Another fav is the run from Cudal to Eugowra along the Escort Way via Nangar National Park.Farmer Elvis wrote:The quiet roads around Coonabarabran west through the warrumbungle national park really take some beating
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:58 am
The track up through Nangar NP is one for the gravel adventurers - it has just been re-graded and would be a hoot on fat tyres. Dead set hairy on the run back down. Great camping at the Terrara camp ground inside the park too.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby celeste boy » Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:08 pm
* Cowra- Cannowindra - Goologong- Grenfell - Cowra
* Goulburn- Crookwell - Bigga - Boorowa - Dalton - Crookwell - Goulburn.
For those with a Strava interest, I recorded my rides and was the first Stavarite to travel some of these roads and hence became KOM..... for 1 week. People went out and took my KOM the next week! At least the roads are being travelled.
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Re: Cycling freindly Regional towns.
Postby silkishuge » Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:25 pm
Gosh. Took a while to reply to this. I am located off Peabody rd Molong. Peabody rd is quite good for riding but can be busy depending on the day. Lots of good riding in these parts.DrJay wrote:[
Where are you at? I'm in Orange, but when I tried Cudal via Molong (nice ride) I terminally flatted on Peabody Road.
Jon
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