Cycle touring links

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Sites with dedicated content for independent bicycle touring in Australia

• Darrell Stone's bicycle touring site Touring information for New South Wales and Victoria. Excellent touring tips and links page.
• Rob Kemp's cycle tours Multi-day tours in the Greater Sydney region, NSW and Victoria.
• Cycling Narooma 18 great day rides in the Narooma area of the NSW South Coast.
• Pedal Power Cycling advocacy group for the ACT. Visit their library of rides for the Canberra region and beyond.
• Bicycle Touring in Queensland A personal website by Peter Gordon about cycle touring in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
• Brisbane Bicycle Touring Association Day and multiday rides around Brisbane and south east Queensland.
• Melbourne Bicycle Touring Club Short tours in Victoria.
• Australian Bicentennial National Trail A multi-use trail that follows the Great Dividing Range (eastern Australia) for more than 5000km. Many sections are suitable for mountain bikes.
• GIRO Tasmania The place to start when planning to cycle Tassie. I followed their tour in 2000.
• Cycle Trails Australia An outstanding personal touring site with information on 12 epic bike trails, mostly in outback Australia.
• Bicycle Fish - Adelaide Cycle touring in South Australia and beyond.
• Adelaide Touring Cyclists South Australia's premier bicycle touring club. Their site contains some Australian touring routes (not limited to SA) and plenty of touring tips and links.
• South Australian Trails Information on the network of recreation trails in SA. Some are short, others over 900km long.
• The Australian Desert by Bike The Birdsville Track.
• BicycleWA West Australia's cycling advocacy group has some information on touring in WA.
• Cycle Touring Association of Western Australia Some brochures of their past tours may be of use.
• Bicycle Touring Around Western Australia A new personal website that will hopefully grow into a valuable online resource.
• Munda Biddi Trail An off-road cycling trail in Western Australia. Already 500km long and growing.
• Bike Odyssey Travelogues from Australian cycle tourists David and Linda.
• Randy and Jody's Cycling Pages Australian cycle tourists. Includes informative travelogues. (Unfotunately this link is broken.)

Useful sites for planning a cycle tour in Australia

• Railtrails Australia Incorparate a railtrail into your route.
• Bureau of Meteorology Climate information for places in Australia.
• Yellow Pages Locate bicycle shops along your touring route.
• GPSies Map out your route on GPSies and it will produce an accurate distance/altitude profile. For more information, read my helpful hints for using GPSies.

Useful sites for planning a cycle tour in NSW

• CityRail Travel with your bike by train between Sydney, Newcastle, Hunter Valley, South Coast, Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains. (Make sure you check their trackwork schedule.)
• Countrylink Travel with your bike by rail or bus across NSW and ACT. (Beware their not-so-user-friendly bicycle travel policy.)
• RTA bicycle pages Bicycle maps for Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and some regional centres.

Other Australian cycling links

• Bicycles Network Australia Australia's top cycling portal. Links to commercial touring companies and cycle touring travel-logs.