The tour begins - Adelaide Launch

It has begun. The official launch of 'The Long Road'. But as normal we don't do things the way everyone else would with say our supporters and close friends having a few drinks and pulling on some party poppers. Oh no. We like to make it difficult on ourselves. Normal service has resumed some would say.

In this case we decided that a short trip from Adelaide to Melbourne, as in 760km's short, would be far more beneficial. I suppose it is considering that there are a number of pieces to 'The Long Road' puzzle that requires testing. Such as our BAUM Cycles Burke and Wills touring bikes with SRAM components (sneaky plug over for now) as well as ourselves. We are so use to riding road bikes that these tourers may take a few KM's to get use to while our legs, heart and backsides will also need to get use to being on the road for 5 or more hours at a time. Theres also camp site setup to run through, communicating with the outside world (thats you) while on the road, and working out the best way to place the 30 odd kilos of equipment we need to carry on the bikes so we don't end up either:

• going over the bars with the first hill we encounter OR
• not being able to keep the front wheel on the ground because we overloaded the rear.
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• As I said… we make it hard for ourselves.

So whats the G.O?

Starting in Adelaide on the 19th of February at 10am in Rymil Park we will snake our way up the hills and out on the highway. At this stage we may deviate a little with our route depending on the state of the highway and the likelihood of us getting squashed by a truck or blown into the bushes as they fly past.

Before long, 7 days and 760km's later, we should hit Melbourne finishing up at Central Pier in the Docklands.

Along the way we will be stopping into some of the little towns that make up the South Australian and Victorian outback with the plan on seeing some of the support groups as we go. To us a highlight as its these people we want to help.

So there you go.

If you live in Adelaide or Melbourne we would be delighted to see you so come on down and say hello. It would be great to see you all.