The Central West Cycling Trail

This quiet cycle trail features rural landscape, native bush areas, villages, small towns and regional cities. There is adventure and fun on the roads less travelled".

A new cycle trail has poked its way into my consciousness. It's called the Central West Trail, and weaves a 400k circuit through a number of tiny rural towns in western NSW between Mudgee, Gulgong and Dunedoo.

It's looks incredibly quiet (some roads devoid of any vehicle traffic), relatively flat and quite scenic. Apparently, several local villages profit from a modest number of cycling tourists that come through in organised tours or independent groups.

By coincidence an ancient Greenspeed GT trike has come up for sale just south of the trail!?

Comments

Gone to Fat

Its official, I have a new to me bike and its a fatty! I tried my best to get a hold of a cheap used trike. But after clocking up more than 1400k only to see and the worst two trikes ever, I decided to postpone things trike until I get more money. So disillusioned by the whole affair. Truthfull, I was also a lityle put off by how low triles can be. Sitting at axle height on a trike with 20" wheels, is way low. I hope that when I do buy , that I get a fat 26" wheeler. So anyway, this fatty. Its a 2016 Kona "Wo". 26"x4.80 Jumbo Jim tubeless tyres, 10 slot cassette with a twin cog forward, rack, disk brakes. The Kona brand is a joint Canadian-US design effort, made in Korea to spec. This particular bike was bought for the Running Man festival in Nevada U.S.A. in 2017, though its a 2016 model. She is asmall framed model and was imported with three larger versions, by its previous owner. They were ridden only lightly "around the Narrabeen Lakes" befo...

A Legend Looking Shaky

If any on e asks, I'd say the gap in my training routine over the past 2 weeks was due to the weather. But that would be a convenient truth. The reality ours that my arse got sore after my pre- flood ride. I found an ache in bones that i never knew I had, and it out me of repeating that experience. In the meantime I read "An Unlikely Bicycle Tourist" by Stephen Peel and realised two things; I had no problems, and I had a solution. How's that for a contradiction? Well, I'd you get to read the ebook, you'll quickly learn that SP weighed 350lb. and during his journey across France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, India and SE Asia he was beset by sale soreness. No ordinary soreness, but chronic "bleeding from the arse"! So, yeh, I reckon I'm a wimp ... but he found a solution in a gel seat. By the way; Id highly recommend the read. SP was quite po...

Naming My Trike

Well, this is a photo of a trike the same model and of similar vintage to the one I am off to see this week. The restoration project was undertaken by "Smoothie" pn the bentrider forum. Coincidentally, I was browsing an ebook this morning by Bryan J. Ball the founder of Bent Rider Online. One of the chapters discussed the issue of naming trikes. Apparently, at least in the US, many trike riders name trikes while naming diamond framed bicycles is fairly uncommon. Since I've been hunting for a used trike in good condition, within my budget, I've never not considered naming it "Greta". Of course it's after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, whose effort and tenacity on the issue I greatly respect. My thinking behind the name has altered slightly after watching a recent three party doco about her in 2019 and into Covid times. One of the messages Greta insists that people take on board is to not follow her,...

Novice Beekeeper

Search This Blog