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Adventure Cycling For Adventurous People

Grab your bike, pack your gear and let's hit the trails!  Bushranger Bikes organises cycling and adventure holidays with you in mind - real adventures for real people.

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

We organise a range of fully supported tour packages to magic 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, including rail and wine trails, that take in awesome scenery and locations, regional history and a chance to meet the locals and sample great wine and food.

Our tours are something special - small group size (6 to 8 riders), backcountry exploration, fantastic accommodation and food, fully organised, 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 and Wine Tours - Back Country cycling in New Zealand is pure magic and our speciality.  We have been organising cycling and adventure holidays in New Zealand since 1995 and have a wealth of local experience, knowledge and contacts - plus we are Kiwis! 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 tours integrate quiet back roads, rail trails, wine trails, and some more remote adventure tracks to provide the perfect cycling holiday.  So with breathtaking scenery, awesome trails & tracks, friendly locals, fabulous food and a wealth of wine regions and award winning wines on offer the only limitation is time.

All Bushranger Bikes New Zealand tours are either 12 or 13 days and also offer plenty of off the bike activities and attractions giving you the opportunity to experience it all.  To find out more about our North Island Volcanic Madness and Wine tours or South Island Southern Lakes, Mountains and Rail Trails tour.

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Murray to Mountains Rail Trail Tours + more.... - This is Victoria's best rail trail, and arguably the best in Australia.  Join Bushranger Bikes on 8 and 9 day all inclusive tours to this fantastic region of Australia and enjoy the delights of the North Eastern Victoria high country, including fantastic historic Beechworth, beautiful Bright, gourmet Milawa and epicurean Rutherglen.  The Victorian 'High Country' is famous for its Bushranger history, but is also a land of vineyards, tobacco, wine and hops and an abundance of local produce is waiting to be sampled.

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

Depending on the tour option, our Victorian tours also include either a visit to Bendigo and local rides including the O'Keefe Rail Trail, or dropping into Melbourne to experience a totally contrasting cycling experience following the Yarra River which 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, and the food is fantastic - a trade mark of Bushranger Bikes tours. 

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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. 

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Bushranger Bikes provides 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.  We can also arrange bike and equipment hire or kit you out with your own new shiny equipment if required.

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 promote rides that utilise 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, sometimes 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.  Most of our wine trail tours are a Grade 2.

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.  These tend to be our mountain bike park tours.

We do provide skills and endurance 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 a mix of a little challenge and indulgence, like to experience local culture, stay in great accommodation and sleep in a comfortable bed, eat fantastic food, taste great wines and local produce - then you should consider letting Bushranger organise one of our fantastic cycling tour packages for you.

Summary:

Our tours are not hardcore bike races across the country side where the scenery is just a blur.  They are adventure rides for adventurous people, of all ages with something for riders of all 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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