Great video. Having done all of it, and certain sections multiple times, was great view of everything it has to offer. I’ve seen many versions of riding the Cent trail and I think yours tops the list. It’s the first of your videos I’ve seen, but I really appreciated the way you explained the side bits… like accomodation, and the arboretum.
Great video, had the CT on my list for a while but this has really pumped my interest in going. The footage makes it appear that a mountain bike is a necessity, is that right? What would it be like attempting it with a gravel bike?
@@PeterDyall-bn7ut I was full rigid and had no problems at all. My tyres were probably a bit wider than what you would run at 2.25. Saying this, I’d 100% give it a crack on a gravel bike. There might be the odd rough section but when I did it, it was pretty smooth. A lot of the sections would actually be best on a gravel bike.
Same with a 29er and 27.5 on 27.5/27.5+ fox 38s still work's with the end of the scale offset being 44mm it works good with a 2.5 magic mary i done this as a test for a mullet set up on my 27.5+ fox 38s. I don't use bigger than a 2.4/2.5 tyre anyway and its working just fine
Memories of this with your dad though priceless! Wish mine was still here to do these things with its exactly what we used to do before lost him! Great video
We were there just after you... Took I camper trailer. The road in to Dunn's Swamp has been up graded over the years. There use to be cattle grid at the wooden hut on the way in.
THANK YOU THANK YOU. I’ve just discovered your great channel and I bet you were the cheeky kid to hang out with at school! As a 73 yer old that did a lot of backpacking before taking up mountain biking 40 years ago particularly from Canberra to Kosi I became distressed that still trying to mountain bike adventure was gone. You have inspired me as I have transitioned to a E Bike in an attempt to keep me in the game has new adventures ahead inspired by your compelling no bullshit adventures..
Thanks Peter. I love hearing storied like this. The E-bike is such a great tool for many reasons. My wife Sarah has a lung condition, she would love to come on these trips with me but its just not possible. One day we would like to get an E-bike. One for me to have fun on but secondly it means she could come on these bikepacking adventures. I hope the E bike treats you well and enjoy the adventure! P.s, I was the shy kid at school. I still am a bit. :)
As a kiwi, watching many of these videos about travelling the South Island I can usually pick out some errors, poor naming of towns, etc. This one was perfect. Glad you had such a good time and enjoyed sharing your holiday. One note of caution (if I may) don't leave it too late to descend from Roys Peak. The track is tricky in the dark. Sarah was justified in being worried.
Thanks mate. I'm known to pronounce things wrong so to hear this is nice. Ever since this trip i've been desperate to go back. Your country is a beautiful place. Even in the dark 😉 I was surprised at how many animals came out on the walk down in the dark, There was so many sheep on the trail. I felt like i was intruding. It was kind of a little spooky. Apart from that it wasn't too bad. from memory i had a head torch. Sarah was probably more worried about being alone haha. Cheers!
great video! mate, have you done any calculations for your front fork? the whole braking force goes onto one side and the braking force is much higher compared to rim brakes. I am looking for calculations online, but cant find anything.
No I haven't sorry. I have heard a few people say things like this but i'm a bit of a hack and didn't care. If that was an issue then nobody could convert a rim brake fork. I just wanted to try and see what happened. I've converted 3 old bikes to disc brakes and have ridden with a few others with converted forks. No one has an issue. You might be correct to say modern forks have a thicker wall to compensate for the forces closer to the axle but i can't image there would be much difference. I do heaps of bikepacking trips with fully loaded bikes and yeah, No issues, no sense of twisting etc. Good Luck with your search.
Very cool! Ii enjoyed watching this. I just finished my modern klunker build. I had to do some similar modifications as well to get the 27.5 wheel set to work on my bike.
MATE. I am such a dumb. I’m here planning big big journeys and I kid you not it didn’t even occur to me to go 30 miles down the bloody road and find a local campsite to cycle to. Thanks for the inspiration! Great vid! 🎉
Why not fashion your own dropouts using .25" steel, cut a channel in the fork and slide in the plate and weld it up? This sounds like a lot of waiting around and over thinking things.
Just stumbled across your channel. Nice work. Voice over in post was great - I’ve noticed with a lot of channels that the migration to a level of post voice over is a mark of maturation of sorts. Can I asked where you camped please? I live in Sydney about 15 mins ride from the bridge at the end!
Thanks, great ride. Greetings from the 'Slow Cyclists'. We're always looking for new 1-2 day rides. We recently rode from Bell train station to Newnes, overnighted in a cabin, then rode back to Lithgow station the next day. A while ago we did a 2 day trip from Richmond station to Gosford along the Hawkesbury, through Glendale valley, finishing at Gosford station. Video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NUg514VmFwM.html
Greetings! How was the Newnes trip? I was very close to doing that ride this weekend. I was going to park at the Zig Zag railway, ride down through the glow worm tunnel, hike a bike for a bit. Camp at Newnes, and then come back up the old coach road. I have some friends that are keen but aren't available this weekend, I'd feel bad doing it without them so I've canned it. Very keen to make it happen soon though. Just watched your video. Some places look familiar. looked like a good ride.
@@advanturest The ride from Bell train station is not that interesting. It goes through recently culled state forest. Where it's interesting is from entrance to Nat Pk, the top of the Old Coach Road which winds steeply down past turn-off to Glow Worm tunnel to Wogan Valley creek. The appeal of Wogan Valley is that basically the road in and out has collapsed, a new one is being built and so there's hardly any traffic or visitors. There's an awesome campground in Newnes which is empty too. It's worth getting a cabin there for the minimum two nights then riding/bushwalking around. Glow worm tunnel is definitely worth the visit.
Cheers mate. I soon as I saw it I was confident it was his, especially with the bird feathers hanging from the revision mirror. I knew he was down there that weekend so it was funny to pull up at my planned parking spot to see it there. The year earlier I did another ride down there the same weekend as him and had plans to ride to Gooandra homestead. I ended going and staying at Millers hut. When I watched his video he stayed at Gooandra. Very close to crossing paths a few times now.
i do the CT regularly, you can see my home at 23:49! if you have the chance, come back and do some of the mountain bike tracks such as majura or stromlo or even bruce ridge (smaller)
So funny when people see their homes on here. It's happened a few times now. P.s do you live at the skate park? 😂 I had to go and have a look at 23:49. I'd like to come and ride some of those trails. I have done Stromlo a few times and Majura once. but it's probably been 10 years since I went to Majura. My guess the last time I rode Stromlo would have been about 2016 / 2017. These days whenever I have a free weekend I try go film a bike packing trip so its hard to do everything.
Loved the Video! As the designer of the Centenary Trail (and the arboretum trails) I really enjoyed hearing the perspective of a first time rider. You pretty much rode it in the direction I always do (though I do like riding down the Murrumbidgee bit…). As I understand it the arboretum trails will officially be included in to the loop (including the loop to the top of Dairy Farmers Hill) - so happy to say you didn’t really leave the trail. The trail has evolved over the last few years, and at the time we were constrained with the ‘7 day walk/3 day cycle’ requirement. I’d suggest that the Tuggeranong section might change a little, following the Murrumbidgee to Lanyon and then onto Tuggeranong Hill and back north. It’ll add another 30k but all single track with stunning views north south east and west at different times. There are a few other bits of single trail that have been added and hopefully, sometime soon there’ll be a few more peaks for cyclists (with nice climbs and descents added - I’ve still got all of the original planned gos alignments 😊).
Oh man, Firstly I find it cool that the designer watched my video. It's a sweet ride. So thanks for the effort of throwing it together. Some of the changes sound awesome, you had me at stunning views. I'll definitely have to do it again when all this is released. Is there an offical route online anywhere? When I did it I just used a GPX file from a friend that had done it. The GPS download on the centenary trail website bounces all over the place. All the signs are good but a decent GPX file to know you're 100% on the right trail would be good. looking forward to hearing about these extra areas opening up. Cheers!
@@advanturest awesome vid. just been looking for decent gpx file too, the official one has it bouncing hard with a total of 350km~ any chance you could share what you have?
@@glenwilson9400 Hi Mate, I've just dragged all my 3 days of GPX files into 1 loop and added a few notes, where we stayed and km's etc. Here is the link. Cheers ridewithgps.com/routes/48020459
Lol wish I'd known about you then I was there racing too and my mate Ben won on a single speed. Would really like to pick your brain about bike packing
This was 2021, Is this the year you were here? It's not Benny Porter by any chance? His team got on the podium and they were all on single speeds. They were also about 10 beers deep by the end haha. Him and Hutch at the end with the beer can wizard sticks. Maybe the actual winner was on a single speed too. not sure. Anyway it was a fun event and I should probably do another one. As for picking my brain, I still feel like an amateur and just pack whatever and try ride to cool places. Feel free to ask any questions but I'm not sure I'll have the best answers. Cheers
Cheers mate, Not all filming went to plan but that doesn't matter because I had a great time. such a fun weekend with good people. Can't wait to do it again. Cheers
My whole bike packing setup has changed a bit over the years. I was very new to it when making this video. I mounted the bottle / container on with large hose clamps. it worked well enough but kind of looks a bit silly. These days I normally just carry a thick plastic ziplock bag for all my rubbish and it just gets stuffed in a fork bag.
Thanks Tim et al, another great vid. Brandy Flat is a great spot, as is the Naas Valley, and Namadgi. Us Canbrrrr natives are blessed with what is in our backyard. As always, really enjoyed the vision and riding along with you. Love the frost shots, and the magpie song ;-D. Keep up the great work. Cheers, Pete 😉
Cheers Pete. Such a good area to ride. I am very Jealous of all you Canberians. This trip has reminded me of how much I enjoyed the first Namadgi trip I did. I think I have to revisit it. As for the Magpie song, I actually dubbed that over the top from some other footage I had. The birds were very vocal in the morning but a lot of the shots I got I didn't have a microphone on. I really wanted some bird sounds and that's all I could find. I do love the sound of magpies singing. Cheers for watching.
It was pretty random, glad I filmed it but spewing I didn't take that old Mongoose out earlier. I think I could have got a half decent time on it. Might have to try again haha.
Just going through a heap of comments and noticed you've watched a few of my videos. Cheers! 😃 This trip was such a fun short little random idea but so glad I did it. Pretty glad I took the drone too. Awesome spot down there.
Haha cheers, Hope it was ok. I had video ideas but they all went out the window. Still a fun trip and the video turned out ok considering. Thanks for watching.
epic adventure mate. that looked exhausting in the first few mins setting up the camera and getting the shots of both of you riding past how many kms to this hut did you ride looks like it was a fair ride from the start.
@@livin4adventure_aus584 Cheers mate. Unpacking a camera and tripod then packing away, all for about 2 seconds of footage is a punish. It may not be physically exhausting but it’s definitely mentally exhausting. I always want to get more static shots but finding the right spot can be tricky, it’s very hard when you have to keep moving otherwise the day disappears. This trip we did 40km in and out. Everyone did something different. I think a lot started about 30km out at the Tharwa bridge.
Haha cheers mate. I'm a big fan of eye and ear protection, but must admit, my wife made me wear the mask when painting. She's a nurse and had some from work. No idea if it was the right type of mask but probably better than nothing. Spray booth was 👌
@@garycook8220 haha, you made me re watch all the talking parts to see where I stuffed up. Shortest night, shortest day, kind of close haha. Anyway, found it in the description, means I can fix it 👍😂
