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Thank goodness, we decided to do an extra 15kms yesterday, to shorten the day down to 70kms! Richard Yates joined me for the first 40km and we scored a $10 donation found on the trail. That spurred us on! We rode onto the Donnelly river, for 10kms which was spectacular, through the start of the…

The regular reports coming from Zimbabwe are full of the distressing kind of news that comes from the worsening situation there which is being felt particularly by the elderly: One of our long-time beneficiaries, Stuart, died on Sunday morning, with cause of death most likely being perforations in the stomach and lungs plus numerous other…

Yesterday was supposed to be a rest day, with only a 28km ride into Nanup and then today, a 85km ride to Manjimup. The suggestion was to take on another 15km, yesterday, which was fairly steep uphill to make day 8 a bit easier, which is what we did. We followed the old rail line…

The reports from Zimbabwe are full of the distressing kind of news that comes from the worsening situation there which is being felt particularly by the elderly: Romaine I visited and assessed Romaine (75) who lives in one of the retirement complexes.  She was very excitable and angrily expressive and unhappy about having to ask…

I have been sent some wonderful photos, contributed by almost everyone. I reckon they can’t be trying hard enough, if they have time to take happy snaps! First up, we have a check in from Julia, the one and only support person for the guys over in Queensland, who really wanted to ride with the…

Here we have our boys & girls over in Queensland, doing their own ride of 1000km, in aid of the oldies in Zimbabwe & under the Old Legs banner! Go guys!!Day 5 of the Old Legs Tour done. Beautiful Agnes Waters to Tannum Sands 90kms. The guys went really well and we managed to find…

“Today we rode 60km…..only 60km, I hear you say?? It may have been only 60km and the shortness was not an indication of the effort required!” If there were snow capped mountains before (tiny exaggeration) then they have just traversed the Western Australian Himalayas (Maybe tiny bit larger exaggeration?) and the wet certainly made descending…

“Eeesh!!!! Today was 6hrs 27min in the saddle and over 1200m of climbing. I have the thought of looking straight up into the sky for 1.2km and imagine that’s what we climbed.” By all accounts, conditions for riding were sublime! Nice cool temperatures with dappled sunlight through the trees. However, that does not equate into…

Day 2 Morning of Day 3, I’m in my tent in Dwellingup and it’s 7 degrees! My good intentions to do this blog last night were completely thwarted by Bangers and Mash (and maybe) a couple of drinks at the Dwellingup Pub to celebrate the completion of day 2. We covered 76km in 5hrs 39…

The day has finally arrived ! At 7.15am we left the Northern terminus of the Munda Biddi It was a fresh morning of 8 degree and my ski gloves, bought for such an occasion, were at home …..not the best start. Mike recounted his disappearing brake pads due to poor fitting which had him in…