Bicycling Australia

Discovering Australia’s BEST ROAD CLIMBS

LONG, CHALLENGING, CONSISTENT CLIMBING ... there’s no better way to not only check your form but improve overall ability.

But the problem is this ... those long, consistent climbs tend to be a long, long way from Australia. The good news is that within a comfortable driving distance of Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide, there lays some truly epic cycling, a region literally full to the brim of on- and off-bike options for keen and adventurous travellers.

A BEELINE FOR BRIGHT

Leaving Adelaide early Tuesday morning, ultra-endurance cyclist and two-wheel tragic Davin Harding made a beeline for Bright, that

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