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Adventure Cycling For Adventurous People

Bushranger Bikes organise and conduct cycling and walking tours with you in mind - real adventures for real people.

Our Backcountry tours are designed to provide an adventure-packed and fun cycling holiday which caters for the novice to the experienced rider.

Bushranger offers a complete range of tours to locations such as the Victorian High Country in South Eastern Australia and the best cycling location in the world – New Zealand. Our specialty is back country and off-road cycling that takes in some awesome scenery and locations, and can also be tailored to include some of the fantastic multi-sport and endurance cycling events on offer in New Zealand.

Our tours are unique due to the small group size (6 to 8 riders) and our backcountry concept, and are fully organised and supported, cater for all levels of cycling ability and offer all the benefits that come from our detailed knowledge of urban and remote Australia and New Zealand – something you can’t get from a guidebook.


New Zealand Back Country Cycling Tours - Back Country cycling in New Zealand is pure magic and our speciality.  We have been running cycling and adventure tours in New Zealand since 1995 and have a wealth of local experience and knowledge.  The scenery, trails and cycling experience cannot be matched by any other location in the world and touring in New Zealand is great value.

Our New Zealand itineraries take you to scenic forests, remote volcanic and alpine areas, through fiords, follow historical trails and access many beautiful areas of Australia and New Zealand that are rarely seen. As you cycle through ancient forests, past sparkling creeks, across sweeping big country rural landscapes, and over mountain passes the views will be breathtaking.

All Bushranger Bikes Tours to New Zealand offer the benefits that come from our detailed knowledge of  New Zealand – something you can’t get from a guidebook.  To find out more about our North Island Volcanic Madness tours or South Island Southern Lakes, Mountains and Rail Trails tour click here.....

Additionally we can provide packaged or tailored group tours that take in some of the fantastic multi-sport and endurance cycling events on offer in New Zealand like the Lake Taupo Challenge and the Karapoti Classic. Our 'Event Tours' are unique, fully organised and supported, and cater for all levels of cycling ability.  Contact us to find out more.

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Murray to Mountains Rail Trail Tours -This is Victoria's best rail trail, and arguably the best in Australia.  Join Bushranger Bikes on a 6 night/7 day all inclusive tour to this fantastic region of Australia and enjoy the delights of the North Eastern Victoria high country, including fantastic historic Beechworth and beautiful Bright.  The Victorian 'High Country' is famous for its Bushranger history, but is also a land of vineyards, tobacco and hops and an abundance of local produce is waiting to be sampled.

In Victoria you will experience the Australian High Country unique with it's eucalypts and rugged granite outcrops, beautiful rural open spaces, fantastic historical towns, the colours of the seasons - particularly beautiful in autumn - all shaped by a history of gold mining and the escapades of the Kelly Gang. 

By contrast our ride following the Yarra River highlights a different history and the vibrancy of cosmopolitan Melbourne.

Accommodation will be in unique, good quality, boutique establishments with an emphasis on something different or historic - a trade mark of Bushranger Bikes tours.  More...

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Cycling Tours in South East Queensland - We offer a wide range of off-road cycling tour options in the beautiful South East Queensland region where we are based and hold the appropriate permits and insurance to run activities in all the main forest parks.  The emphasis of these trips is a fantastic mix of hinterland and coast - something unique to Queensland.

Our 'Short Break' tours include half day, one day and overnight options in locations such as Mt Glorious, Samford Valley, the Brisbane River and City, the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail, the Lockyer Valley and Bicentennial Trail, the Sunshine Coast and Hinterland, and local forest parks.

The riding includes the fantastic Brisbane bikeway network, local fire trails, rail trails, back country pony trails, and purpose built mountain bike single track.  More…


Our knowledgeable guides offer all the assistance and direction that you need to make your tour safe and relaxing, and our small group size ensures that your adventure tour is as personal as possible.

For more information on our tours including availability, price and inclusions contact Bushranger Bikes now!   info@bushrangerbikes.com.au


Tour Gradings:

Bushranger Bikes cycling tours are designed as adventure rides and holidays for adventurous people, of all ages.  We specialise in what we call 'Back Country' tours and we predominantly ride wilderness trails, rail trails, farm tracks, fire roads, back roads, and some of the easier adventure tracks in mountain bike parks.  Most are gravel or dirt surfaces, sometimes in ancient forests where the tracks are covered by a magical soft layer of beech leaves, sometimes on narrow trails beside fiords or raging streams and rivers, sometime on rocky or rooted surfaces that will challenge your balance and courage (remember there is always the option to jump off the bike and walk a section of trail), but all will take you to the most amazing locations and scenery available.  And sometimes our trail rides are connected by short sections of riding on the bitumen.

We use a grading scale between Grade 1 (easiest) and Grade 5 (hardest).  We offer tours that are between a grade 2 and grade 4 and our tour gradings are developed with the regular recreational cyclist in mind, not the complete novice, nor the hardcore mountain biker.

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If you are a recreational cyclist, with a sense of adventure and reasonable endurance on the bike, and some, but not much off-road cycling experience then you would probably be more comfortable on a tour at the Grade 2 level.

If you are an experienced cyclist with good endurance on the bike and plenty of off-road cycling experience then you may be looking for a tour at the Grade 4 end of the scale.

We do provide skills training pre tour for those located in the Southeast Queensland region and this is reinforced with activities on tour.  So if you want a great cycling holiday, where the focus is on adventure with some challenge, then you may want to consider any of our tours, irrespective of the grade.

Summary:

Our tours are not hardcore mountain bike races across the country side where the scenery is just a blur.  They are adventure rides for adventurous people, of all ages and most skills and fitness levels.  You actually get to experience the places you travel through, take in the magic, breathtaking scenery of New Zealand, Victoria and Southeast Queensland, and enjoy the cycling experience with friends.  Go on – put one of our tours on your to do list, put a tick beside it and contact Bushranger today for more information – info@bushrangerbikes.com.au

Please Note: Bushranger Bikes reserves the right to cancel the tour or change tour content and trails ridden without prior notice depending upon participant numbers, weather conditions and other variables to ensure the safety and fun factor of our tours.


Adventure Tours For Adventurous People

What the travellers have to say.............

"Boy!!  Did we do all of this in a fortnight???
Do this type of event again?  You betcha!!
Thanks to my fellow “gang riders” for a very memorable adventure."
- Terry Heydon - March 2006


"G'day Jon,
It's hard to believe that a week ago we were in Wellington. It's been a tough week back at the office and I know where I'd rather be.
Congratulations on doing such a great job. The organisation, accommodation, food, transport & all other associated aspects were great. This holiday has to be one of the best, if not the best I've ever experienced.
Best wishes & many thanks"
- Lesley Prior - March 2007


"Thanks to my fellow MTB travellers for their companionship over the past 10 days, both on and off the track.  Also to Jon and Dale for the execution of their well organised tour, experience and tolerance to make this a most memorable tour.
Is it on again next year?"

- Terry Heydon - Feb 2007    Download Terry's Diary -
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