Over the last three to four months Garry and I have discussed our bike ride with many different people, we have had allot of fantastic feedback and interesting suggestions thrown our way, however one particular idea stood out to us as something we should seriously consider.
This was to split up our tour into a selection of shorter rides, or setting up additional lead-up rides to build up to the main event.
While both suggestions were good in their own way we did not want to split our tour up as this would defeat the purpose of what we are trying to achieve in the first place, so we decided to add an additional ride a few months prior to the main tour start date.
So what is the point of doing a lead-up ride rather than just jumping in head first to our main tour? Well there are a number of reasons behind our decision, first and foremost we believe it will be a great opportunity to further promote of our main tour and generate additional awareness for our two worthy causes.
Secondly was to get a better idea of where we are at in our preparations, providing us with valuable time in the saddle getting used to our new bikes which will both be custom made for us for the tour, as well as working out the best ways to manage our gear when we are fully loaded.
Adelaide to Melbourne.
Of cause there was another reason for choosing Adelaide in January as our start point, The “Tour Down Under”. Being a bike racing fan I couldn’t help myself, we could go and watch the tour and then kick of our ride the day after the final stage, couldn’t think of a better way to start.
We have also been busy re-working our main tour route and in the coming weeks will be posting up a selection of new maps together with a blog about our reasons behind our destinations. For now here is an overall world map of the route.
