Long rides out of Melbourne
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Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby YouAgainstMe » Mon May 27, 2013 6:56 pm
Coming into uni holidays I am planning on doing some longer rides to make use of my days off. I am looking for suggestions on longer day trips (around 150km avg) preferably loops but that isn't a deal breaker. I would rather safer routes as I will more than likely be riding solo so roads like beach rd or sealed bike paths are ok but want to avoid narrow busy roads like warrigal rd or lower dandenong road for example. I live in Elsternwick so can head any direction from there. Currently I am thinking out to sorrento or arthurs seat and back and also looking at doing yarra trail to ringwood, eastlink trail to frankston (is it possible??) and back. Does anyone have any other good distant ride suggestions?
Thanks heaps!
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby jamesn184 » Tue May 28, 2013 5:46 am
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby gabrielle260 » Tue May 28, 2013 5:58 am
Enjoy! It'd be nice to have the time!
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby VRE » Tue May 28, 2013 7:14 am
As for Yarra Trail to Ringwood, a slightly different alternative to that is Yarra Trail to Burke Rd, then turn onto the Koonung Creek Trail and follow that to Ringwood. In my opinion, the Koonung Creek Trail is one of the best in Melbourne, because it has (a) mostly smooth surface, (b) only 2 road crossings between its start at Burke Rd and the end in Ringwood and (c) some pretty nice scenery.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby YouAgainstMe » Tue May 28, 2013 11:32 am
Where does the eastlink trail end out south? and can you take a safe route for the remainder to Frankston?
What's the riding like out to Ballarat? I thought that it might be a bit dangerous in sections or is the a shoulder you can take the entire way?
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby clackers » Tue May 28, 2013 2:22 pm
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby YouAgainstMe » Tue May 28, 2013 4:42 pm
Im open to suggestionsclackers wrote:To get closer to your 150 km mark, can I suggest rides out to Emerald, Yarra Glen, Whittlesea, Sunbury and even Geelong?
What's the safest way to get to Geelong by bike from south east melb?
I was thinking I could do Yarra trail to the Dandenongs, ride the crucifix and then home again aswell (that would be a big day! )
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby yarravalleyplodder » Tue May 28, 2013 8:24 pm
Must say I would head to for Mt Dandy from Ringwood, some great hills, descents and scenery before turning around and heading home, plenty of opportunities to rack up some K's
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby jamesn184 » Wed May 29, 2013 3:50 am
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby clackers » Wed May 29, 2013 4:12 pm
For you, probably Bay Trail, Federation Trail then either the Freeway (very wide shoulder) or backroads.YouAgainstMe wrote: What's the safest way to get to Geelong by bike from south east melb?
Or for variety, start from Werribee railway station, go to Geelong then to Queenscliff and back. Think of it as Around The Bay Training.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby VRE » Wed May 29, 2013 6:43 pm
Back when I used to live in St Kilda, I rode to Geelong once via this route (I've skipped a few of the minor connecting roads for clarity of description): Beaconsfield Pde, Clarendon St, over the Yarra, Footscray Rd, Whitehall St, Douglas Pde, Kororoit Ck Rd, Millers Rd, Queen St, Point Cook Rd, Sneydes Rd, Bulban Rd, Edgars Rd, You Yangs Rd, Farrars Rd, Branch Rd (with detour to check out the You Yangs, or at least the sealed road bit), Forest Rd Nth then Sth, Bellarine Hwy, ferry, then from Sorrento I rode the coast roads back to St Kilda.clackers wrote:For you, probably Bay Trail, Federation Trail then either the Freeway (very wide shoulder) or backroads.YouAgainstMe wrote: What's the safest way to get to Geelong by bike from south east melb?
Or for variety, start from Werribee railway station, go to Geelong then to Queenscliff and back. Think of it as Around The Bay Training.
OK, granted, this is more than just the Geelong route, but it was great fun, particularly since it was on a Saturday in Feb 2010 and not the official Around The Bay In A Day . Anyway, perhaps the OP could consider the Melbourne to Geelong route I just outlined, because it avoids the main roads and is mostly quiet.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby clackers » Wed May 29, 2013 8:57 pm
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby danny the boy » Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:24 pm
This is 156k's starting from Mordialloc. You can take a few alternatives like just follow Neapean Hwy at Mornington rather than the Esplanade for a safer way and rather than go down Arthur's Seat just at the top continue along Purves rd to Browns rd and onto Boneo rd.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby marty_one » Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:20 pm
How do you find the traffic along that section of springvale road? I am very curious to know. Its been a long time since I have done a big ride and I'm going to build up to it again. For my route that I will end up doing, it will be an 85km lap.yarravalleyplodder wrote:eastlink bitumen trail ends at or just after cheltenham road. I have taken eastlink to cheltenham rd then ridden that and turned left at springvale rd all the way to nepean hwy.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby Dimis » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:34 am
There are couple of stretches that are a little precarious. Like through Springvale itself, and through some other areas where there road (and lanes seemingly) narrow with no service lanes or bike lanes to escape into. But mostly no problems... Particularly once you pass Springvale south bound toward the beach. There's a dedicated (red colored) bus lane which is great for riding 2 abreast safely in.
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby antigee » Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:34 pm
I've ridden the extension of the Eastlink trail after Cheltenham rd a few times - think though some is gravel and I ride a CX with sometimes 28mm tyres and sometimes my good road wheels with 25mm tyres its not the sort of gravel trail that should really cause any concern unless you have a couple of thousand dollars worth of carbon rimsyarravalleyplodder wrote:eastlink bitumen trail ends at or just after cheltenham road. I have taken eastlink to cheltenham rd then ridden that and turned left at springvale rd all the way to nepean hwy.
How do you find the traffic along that section of springvale road?
Think it is officially Dandenong Creek trail (south) and continues past the rowing centre at Patterson lakes and then from Carrum there is a hard to find start of trail that runs beside a drain behind a golf course to Mordialloc to join the Beach rd
not done it as a complete loop yet - hoped might be a Fathers Day treat but didn't work but does mean can ride on trails in a big loop around Beach Rd / Capital / Yarra / Koonung / East Link around 150km+ all traffic free
Just joined forum and looking forward to getting some ideas for good long rides - so thanks for the above
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Re: Long rides out of Melbourne
Postby Deeky » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:48 pm
I've just started riding again and this is my main route atm as I am avoiding the road. I see lots of skinny tyres on along the way, that being said I think they poor some new gravel last week or so and some parts felt very slippery as it was very loose...antigee wrote:
I've ridden the extension of the Eastlink trail after Cheltenham rd a few times - think though some is gravel and I ride a CX with sometimes 28mm tyres and sometimes my good road wheels with 25mm tyres its not the sort of gravel trail that should really cause any concern unless you have a couple of thousand dollars worth of carbon rims
From currum you can jump onto the Peninsula Trail to Seaford and into Frankston as well
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