15 March 2022
Jimmy Ashby makes a pilgrimage of sorts to his favourite island adventure playground. With a luxurious three month window - he bikes, hikes and runs the classic Tasmanian trails, plus scores a few new adventures in this wild and unique landscape.
10 August 2021
Jimmy Ashby and Chad Freak ride 1100km from Perth to Laverton WA, and then 1350km on the remote and rugged Anne Beadell Highway across the Great Victorian Desert to Coober Pedy SA.
15 December 2020
Once you immerse yourself in the Australian Outback and truly experience its beauty, you’ll find yourself constantly daydreaming about returning and scheming as to how to venture deeper and further into its vast emptiness.
30 June 2020
Pedalling north out of Adelaide after lockdown, Jimmy Ashby reflects that the best way to know you’re on a deep and remote adventure is when you’re 200km+ from the closest town and one of the few cars you see all day pulls over just to tell you you’re crazy.
02 September 2019
The South Australian Outback: A true blue, fair dinkum, ripper part of the world – to translate, it's a place like no other. I never thought I could fall in love with such emptiness and vast horizons, roads that go hundreds of kilometres in a straight line and towns that sound so silly they just don't seem real.
01 July 2015
Riding a bike off road is a challenging affair, so why do people choose to ride in costume? This quandary struck me whilst riding the Three Ring Circus event at Wingello Forest Park amidst a gaggle of clowns.
29 June 2015
Damian Stones wings his way to the Northern Territories with his trusty Santa Cruz in the hold and favourite mattock in the overhead locker. He regales us with stories of hot-weather trail building, urban cycle ways and bugs that bite.
01 September 2014
With the tingly fingers and blackened toenails from April’s Cloudride finally subsiding, the itch had returned and I was well overdue for another bikepacking adventure, if only to break the daily monotony of a blustery Sydney existence.
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