
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Summer has landed with heat and sunshine, holidays and… skatebowls? What happens when two women riding mountain bikes home from the beach find the usually-crowded skatebowl empty? This is what it looks like… Be sure to watch to the end (and with the sound on) š [Music: Roll Your Own / Artist: Tripswitch]
Category: Bike culture, Experiment Tags: Adventure, Australia, Fun, Gold Coast, Holidays, Mountain Bike, Summer, Video
For three months, it had been just a concept, an idea, an aspiration: āIām going to ride the GreatVicā. I knew very little about what this ride would be like. Yes, Iād read the Bicycle Network website which has heaps of useful information. It prepared me well. But it was information and still a concept; something āout thereā beyond where I was. Now the ride is over and my GreatVic is real…. Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Adapting, Adventure, Apollo Bay, Australia, Bicycles, Camping, Celebration, Challenges, Cold, Cycling, Cyclists, events, Exhilarating, Festival, Fun, Geelong, Grampians, Great Ocean Road, Great Otway, Hills, Holidays, inspiration, Landscape, National Park, Ocean, Photography, RACV, Resilience, success, Summer, Touring, Tourism, Twelve Apostles, Victoria, Weather
I hadn’t planned to ride in the Bunya Mountains. An invitation arrived to share a cabin thereĀ over the long weekend with friends. It’d been the late 90s since I’dĀ visited the BunyasĀ soĀ I was looking forward to going thereĀ again. Bicycle riding, though, was unlikely to be inĀ the equation. The Bunya Mountains sit like an elevated island of rainforest habitat surrounded by dry flat plains that stretch to the horizon. Sitting at aboutĀ 1000 metres above… Read More
Category: Experiment, Travel, Weather Tags: Autumn, Birds, Bunya Mountains, Bunya Pines, Elevation, Exhilarating, Fireplace, Friends, High, Hiking, Hills, History, Holidays, Kangaroos, Mountains, Queensland, Rail Trail, Red Wine, Summer, Trees
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons