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The path of new beginnings
An ode to a bike track that asks so little when you have so little to give.

I always forget to ride when I need it the most
You know in those old-timey movies where there’s a barrel of gunpowder and the fuse?

A ride of loss, love, and longing among the mountain ash
In the lush rainforest of the Dandenong Ranges, Peter Foot was able to gain some much-needed perspective.

War of the worlds: When sport and 'real life' collide
In the three and a half years since his retirement, former pro racer Adam Phelan has started his own digital marketing company, completed...

A balancing act, a wallaby, and a ride into the light
There’s a wedge of bush – a kind of island in suburbia – running over a freeway tunnel near my house, crowded with dense scrub and cut by...

In a child's first bike ride, life rolls on
The week before everything changed, on a primary school athletics track a few blocks from our house, my daughter rode a bike for the firs...

When it all goes wrong
The scream was horrible. The dripping blood was worse. I could see his funny bone, and it wasn’t funny. That was how my recent riding hol...

The lost and the saved
Ten minutes before the start of the Gravel Giro last weekend I learned that a friend had died by suicide.

The life and death of a bike pump
It wasn’t a very good floor pump. It didn’t cost much, didn’t have Bluetooth and didn’t have a digital gauge; it just put air into tubes,...

Cold and alone: The beauty of winter bikepacking
We all seek out adventure for different reasons. For some of us, it's a chance to get away from real life. For others, it's a chance to s...

Waving at strangers: The bike that changed how I see cycling
Confession: my happiest riding experiences this year haven’t been off in the forests or the hills. They haven’t been accompanied by ...