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Half Day Kin Kin Trail mountain bike ride -
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Play New Zealand Video Snapshot -
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Features Redwoods Forest,
Rotorua and sound track.
Bushranger News
Tours:
What's on
offer......
- 14 to 22 October 2010 -
Victoria -
Spring
magic - Mountains all the way to the Murray - +
Bendigo Gold trails.
This is our
new Ned Kelly, Wine and Gold back country cycling tour. A
combination of
Rail Trails, forest trails and back roads - perfect adventure
cycling. Includes 2 nights in Bright, 2 nights in
Beechworth, a night in both Milawa & Rutherglen and 2 nights in
Bendigo. Click Here!
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- Early to mid February 2011
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New Zealand:
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Summer
Southern Lakes, Mountains & Rails Trails (Akaroa, Otago Rail
Trail, Queenstown, Wanaka, West Coast, Hamner Springs &
Christchurch) - Adventure Cycling in New Zealand at it's best –
Grade 2+ (suitable for all riders)
Brilliant scenery, crisp
nights, cool, clear days, perfect cycling, great food and
accommodation and fantastic fun! Click Here!
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- 20 to 27 May
2011 -
Victoria
- Awesome
Autumn
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Murray to Mountain Rail Trail and
Melbourne's Yarra Trail Tour, Australia's best Back Country
cycle touring - a food, colour, cycling and local produce
extravaganza - Victoria
Click Here! Booking Now!!!
Bushranger Bikes is a specialist
cycling company. Our expertise is the organisation and conduct of small group, high quality,
adventure cycling tours where the focus is on you - our valued
customers.
We also provide a range of other cycling services and activities including
bike sales and hire, the sale of cycling equipment and adventure clothing,
the provision of cycling education and training services, and the delivery of community
based cycling programs.
BCC Active Parks Bike Ride Program - July to September 2010
now available -
Our Mountains to the Murray, Ned Kelly, Wine and Gold back
country cycling adventure is rated
Grade 2
- easy to intermediate, with great cycling, fantastic
scenery, and loads of fun and produce sampling.
The
Murray to Mountains (M2M)
is Victoria's best rail trail, and
arguably the best in Australia.
Bushranger Bikes runs a 8 night/9
day Spring tour to this fantastic region of
Australia taking in the delights of
the North Eastern Victoria high
country, including 2 nights stay in
both beautiful alpine Bright and fantastic
historic Beechworth, a night in
gourmet Milawa and a night in
epicurean Rutherglen - vine & wine
central.
This
region is the land of
vineyards, tobacco, hops, berries
and bakeries and an
abundance of local produce is
waiting to be sampled.
Plus we
then travel to vibrant, colourful
and historic Bendigo to ride the
O'Keefe rail trail plus some local
tracks and trails around the city -
perfect. This is a Gold town
and the spring wild flowers and city
gardens still reflect the wealth of
this booming regional centre.
Accommodation will
be in high quality boutique
establishments with an emphasis on
something different or historic, and
the food is fantastic - a
trade mark of Bushranger Bikes
tours.
Some Details:
This
tour runs from Bright in the North
Eastern Victorian high country to
the mighty Murray River - Ned Kelly
country - following the rail, wine
and food trail down the Alpine Way
to Milawa and Wangaratta. Then we
pick up some quiet back country
roads that will lead us through to
the vineyards of Rutherglen and a
new section of the rail trail that
runs to Wahgunyah on the Murray
River and the NSW boarder.
This section of the tour, including
additional rides in Bright and
Beechworth, is approximately 200kms
of fantastic and relaxing adventure
cycling at its best!
Then
its a transfer through to the
historic city of Bendigo where gold
and wine continue to shape the
culture and landscape. Bendigo
is a city of colour with amazing
flower displays and also a vibrant
student and education centre with
good shopping and historic
architecture. We spend two
nights in Bendigo and ride the
O'Keefe Rail Trail and some of the
local tracks and trails around and
through town - fantastic. In
spring there is a floral colour
explosion so get your camera ready.
The Murray to Mountainsrail trail
is fully bitumen surfaced and the gradients are
kind, which makes for fantastic
cycling. The
leisure days in both Beechworth and
Bright offer and opportunity to explore
(and shop) in
and around these beautiful historic
towns. Both towns offer some
fantastic scenery, historic
buildings and fantastic shopping and
food - all easily accessible on foot
or by
bike. In Beechworth a
highlight is riding the Beechworth
Gorge road and visiting local
vineyards, whilst Bright offers
trails beside the Ovens River, great
shopping, and a side trip up Mount
Buffalo with an awesome gravity
assisted 26km ride down.
The
O'Keefe Rail Trail and Bendigo
tracks will provide another 30kms+
of great cycling through eucalypt
forest and wild flowers on well
graded gravel trails. The
birds and kangaroos will be your
constant companions and you may even
see the occasional fox.
At
this time of the year the new spring
growth and flower displays, crisp
clear days and nights and the
possibility of just a little snow on
Mt Buffalo and the surrounding
mountains (Bogong, Hotham and
Feathertop) provide awesome scenery
and magic memories.
All
our tours to this region include
visits
to great local vineyards and a
chance to check out local produce
including olives, cheeses and
mustards - food heaven!
Our
tours to North Eastern Victoria and
Bendigo are simply magic!
Our Next
New Zealand
Tour:
Early to Mid February 2011 - dates to be finalised
with accommodation providers.
Summer
-
Southern Lakes, Mountains & Rails Trails Tour (Little River
Rail Trail, Akaroa, Otago Rail
Trail, Queenstown, Wanaka, the West Coast, Hamner Springs &
Christchurch) - Adventure Cycling in New Zealand at it's best –
Grade 2+ (suitable for all riders)
What
can you expect? Brilliant scenery, crisp
nights, warm clear days, perfect cycling, great food & accommodation and fantastic fun!
Maybe you like your cycling a little more adventurous
and
challenging ?
Check out our video from our March 2010
Mountain Biking Tour - Rotorua and Whirinaki Forests - North
Island - Grade 3 to 4.
PLUS:
New Zealand
tourism promotional videos (turn on your speakers):
Brisbane City and River Explorer Rides
- these rides are a great
way to discover what Brisbane has to offer on an easy 15km bike ride
that takes in the contrasts of the CBD river front, botanic gardens,
Southbank, Kangaroo Point, Dockside, the Story Bridge and New Farm
Park - all accessed on a mainly flat river loop ride, primarily on
bike ways, commencing from New Farm Park.
So take the opportunity to join
Bushranger Bikes on an Explorer Ride and discover the magic of
cycling in Brisbane - Bookings are
essential and bike and helmet hire is available -
more....
Back Country Cycling -
Adventure Tours For Adventurous People:
Cycling tours- We organise a range of
tours in Southeast Queensland,
and some of the best recreational cycling in the world in Victoria
and New Zealand. Other
companies do it but we know that we
do it better.
We specialise in
'gentle' off-road cycling
activities and tours for small
groups that we call
'Back Country Tours'.
The tour packages that Bushranger puts together are suitable for all
adventurous recreational cyclists and offer
an unforgettable adventure experience that
will take you to the best scenery,
fantastic historical locations, awesome mountains and glaciers,
beautiful lakes and fiords, and
remote rail trails.
The
Bushranger Bikes tour trademark is a
mix of adventure, achievable challenges, heaps
of fun, personalised service and a focus on safety and good tour management.
We book quality accommodation - places that are
different,
historic, remote or boutique.
And of course there
is always great local food and
produce - it can't all
be about the cycling and scenery!
Click here for more information
on all our cycling adventure tours
More...
Community Programs -
There are fantastic cycling programs offered in the Greater Brisbane
Region by both the Brisbane City Council and Moreton Bay Regional
Council.
Bushranger Bikes delivers a range of community cycling programs including
Active Parks, Chill Out and GOLD for Brisbane City Council and SHAFT
and Older & Bolder for Moreton
Bay Regional Council.
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Corporate and Education Services
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Bushranger Bikes provides bike fleet hire (short and long term), fleet
purchase packages, the provision of cycling accessories and equipment, bicycle maintenance education programs, skills
clinics including women's only MTB clinics, and advisory
services on the design of recreation program and activities.
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Bushranger Bikes currently supports and is involved in delivering Bike Safety
activities in Primary Schools as part of Brisbane City Councils Active
School Travel program and is committed to developing models to encourage
greater and safer use of bikes as a primary form of school transport
and commuter travel.
Our corporate services include the provision of
cycling based team building activities, challenge and fun
cycling activities for work groups, sports teams and groups of
friends, and bike safety and defensive cycling
information sessions and training.
These can be tailored and
utilised to support workplace transport programs such as the TravelSmart
sustainable transport initiative.
Contact us to find out more about our
Brisbane CBD Landmark
Orienteering challenges or our team building off-road rides -
info@bushrangerbikes.com.au or Ph: 07 3139 1402
Bushranger Bikes sells a range of
cycling equipment, bikes and adventure gear and clothing including
brands such as:
Netti - Bianchi - Dahon
- Fox - Fi'zi:k - Cinettica - Brooks - Allen -
Buff
Plus lots more. So if you need a
bike, clothing, helmet, gloves, lights or any equipment to turn your
cycling into a safe and enjoyable adventure experience e-mail
info@bushrangerbikes.com.au or phone 07 3139 1402 for
information and availability.
Bushranger Bikes has been involved with
and supports
the Hidden Vale Flight Centre Cycle Epic – a 100 kilometre
+, point to point off-road endurance event in the Lockyer Valley
since its inception. Again in 2011 the Cycle Epic
will continue to set the benchmark
for quality endurance off-road cycling events in Australia -
More…
Our goal at Bushranger Bikes is to deliver a high level of quality and
personalised service in all our activities and we strive to bring innovation and value for money to our
tours, programs, products and services. We specialise in putting
the excitement into cycling,
for cyclist of all ages, and we hope that we can assist you with a
cycling tour or program soon.
Join Bushranger Bikes for some
fantastic, rewarding and
inspirational cycling in
2010 and 2011.
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