Cycle! No 145

icycle saThe Members’ Magazine — No 145February – April 2010Bicycle SA — More South Australians CyclingThen, and now — Phil AndersonThe Cycling Dutchman rides — Warwick CooperThe Fuego Project Update — Anna WittertBicycle SA111 Franklin Street Adelaide 5000Tel (08) 8168 9999Fax (08) 8168 9988www.bikesa.asn.auLife’s better on a bike >>>www.bikesa.asn.au

ContentsPresident’s notes 3This Issue… 3around the office 3News and Notes 4Short Spokes 4So what is the fuss about Amy’s Ride? 52010 Grand Slam Series 5Adelaide City Bikes, an update! 6Kona AfricaBikes give the AdelaideCity Bikes scheme a new meaning 6Bicycle SA presents Earth Ride Adelaide2010 6Invitation to Mountain Bike Riders 6A recap on Gear Up Girl SA 2009 7The good oil on bike maintenance 7Clare Easter Cycle 8Introducing... 8Opening of the Northern Extension of theRiesling Trail 8Life as a Bike Ed coordinator 9Low and steady gets you there,eventually 9Phil Anderson, recent visitor 11Then, and now 11My story 11Roxy Baratosy goes cycling 12A non-cyclist’s view of life with twoenthusiastic cyclists 12The Cycling Dutchman rides 13City of Charles SturtCycleSafe program 14New members 14The Fuego Project Update 15Tailwind 18On the coverSteve Robin coming down SunsetBoulevard at Eagle MTB Park duringthe 2010 KONA Dirty DozenContributing to Cycle!Have you something you would like to contributeto Cycle!? If so we’d love to hear about it. Pleasecontact Melanie Paull on 8168 9999 or melp@bikesa.asn.au.Amy’s Ride — page 5Phil Anderson — page 11Fuego Update — page 15Office111 Franklin StreetPhone (08) 8168 9999Fax (08) 8168 9988Email office@bikesa.asn.auWeb bikesa.asn.auThe office is open seven days a week,9:00 am to 5:00 pmLibraryOpen Monday to Friday,9:00 pm to 5:00 pmcycle!Cycle! is published quarterlyDisclaimerThe views expressed in this magazine arenot necessarily those of Bicycle SA. Bicycle SAdoes not guarantee the accuracy of informationpublished herein© 2009, Bicycle SAOriginal articles in Cycle! are copyrighted toBicycle SA unless otherwise specified. Non-profitorganisations may reproduce articles copyrightedto Bicycle SA, with only minor modification,without the permission of the authors, providedBicycle SA is sent, as a courtesy and condition,a copy of the publications containing suchreproduction.Articles copyrighted to their authors may notbe reproduced without the express authorisationof their authors. Bicycle SA and the originalauthors reserve the right to take legal action forbreach of copyright where these instructions arenot complied with.Executive e-mail addressesPresident, Maureen Merrickmaureen.merrick@bikesa.asn.auVice President, Terry RyanTerryR@bikesa.asn.auTreasurer, Tom Walkertom.walker@escosa.sa.gov.auSecretary, Anne LewisAnneL@bikesa.asn.auMembersJohn BassettWarwick CooperDes MurrayTom WalkerChris BeauchampBrett LarwoodGovernment of South AustraliaOffice for Recreation and SportDepartment for Transport,Energy and Infrastructure2

Club NewsPresident’s notesMaureen Merrickam very pleased to report that at our AnnualI General Meeting in November 2009 thefollowing members were elected unopposed forthe next two year term:Maureen Merrick, PresidentAnne Lewis (Smith) SecretaryJohn BassettChris BeauchampBrett LarwoodCatherine Davies was elected for a one yearterm to fill a casual vacancy left by the resignationof Jane Pelham at the AGM. Jane has a full timerole looking after young Oscar and, although weshall miss her contribution on the Executive, wewish her well for the future.With the other four committee members, TerryRyan, Vice President, Tom Walker, Treasurer,Warwick Cooper, and Des Murray, I am lookingforward to another very productive term of office.During the Annual General Meeting, AndrewAlford was named and awarded the 2009Volunteer of the Year Award for his significantcontribution as a volunteer. As well as being a rideleader, and ride group coordinator, Andrew hasvolunteered at various events and coordinatedsome very challenging start locations. We thankAndrew for his commitment and support ofBicycle SA. Congratulations and well done!This Issue…Peter CarterThe physical appearance of a magazine — itsmasthead, logos and other graphics, thepage layout, and paragraph formats (typeface,indents and spacing) — are planned by the graphicdesigner. The form of the language — consistentspelling and abbreviations, correct grammar, andso on — are the province of the editor, and everypublication will have a set of standards, the styleguide. There will also be submission guidelines,setting the standards for file formats and the like.Some years ago I published a style guidefor Cycle!, or REcycle as it then was, and I’verecently revised it and circulated it to the officestaff. I’ve included it in this issue so that memberscan refer to it, and minimise the time spent inediting their contributions.In the days of dialup Internet connections Iinsisted in text files to minimise download times(and the frustrations of dropouts). For example,one of the items in this issue was 30,720 bytesas a Word .doc file, 1,503 as a text file, and thelist of new members was 53,550 bytes as anExcel spreadsheet but only 3091 bytes of text file.Images of several megabytes were a real pain.We also began the policy of putting everything onCD so that it was all together instead of comingitem by item.The Grand Slam Personal Achievement Awardwas made to Darren Graetz and the Mini SlamPersonal Achievement Award went to Luke Mills.Brett Aitken was re-appointed as Patron ofBicycle SA.Our new fleet of 100 Kona Africa bikes beingused for the free City Bikes scheme is a regularsight throughout Adelaide. Kona have namedthese bikes Africa bikes because for every twowe have purchased a third bike has been sentto Africa. The bikes are used by health care andother workers as a means of transport as theytravel from village to village.If you would like to be involved in the regularmaintenance of these bikes please contact meContinued next page...In recent months it has become obvious thatthe office has been spending too much of itstime converting Word files to text files, a processwhich also introduces weird results at times:what fraction is Ω? I’m prepared to tolerate Wordfiles, .doc or .docx, but I will continue to edit witha programmer’s text editor (BBEdit) and notWord. The final layout of Cycle! is with AdobeInDesign, and not the blunt instrument that isMicrosoft’s program. (Just be aware that if yousubmit a Word file you will be revealing whetherContinued next page...around the officeChristian HaagOn Wednesday 20 January, we launched ourBicycle SA Ambassador Programme withover 70 current and future supporters welcomedby Bicycle SA Patron Brett Aitken OAM, includingMichael Wright, Minister for Recreation andSport (representing the Premier), Patrick Conlon,Minister for Transport, David Ridgway and TerryStephens (Shadow Ministers for Transport andRecreation respectively).In helping achieve our vision of getting moreSouth Australians riding more often in safe,rhealthier communities, we see our Ambassadorsas an important next step in expanding ournetwork of supporters who will work with us tohelp spread this message.The launch encouraged leaders in thebusiness, government and community sectorsto get involved. The simple act of riding a bikehas a multitude of benefits to the broadercommunity: from improved health outcomesthrough increased physical activity, reducingtraffic congestion on our roads, the lowering ofgreenhouse gas emissions to increased tourismvisitation to our state and a better quality of lifefor our marginalised communities.Because cycling has the potential for such abroad base of support, we announced a numberof Ambassador Programmes that we believecommunity leaders will have an interest in ofaffinity with:• Ride to Work Ambassadors — a provenbehaviour change programme that sees29% of first time riders still riding regularlyfive months after their first ride• Ride to School Ambassadors — a provenbehaviour change programme that getskids out of cars and cycling or walking toschool• Business of Cycling Ambassadors — workingwith us to promote the ‘business ofcycling’ as attractive to the businesscommunity• Cycle Friendly CommunitiesAmbassadors — from our ‘Bikes-in-Schools’programme in the APY lands to helpingrefugees and new arrivals to integrate intoour community• Cycle Tourism Ambassadors — cycle tourismis booming at over $300M to the nationalContinued next page...two wheels, one spirit, many adventures >>>February – April 2010 >>>> 3

News and NotesPresident’s notes...continuedon 8168 9999 or .It is no surprise that we have an exceedinglyfull calendar of events this year and if you wouldlike to be involved in some way, I would bepleased to hear from you. It is worth rememberingthat our various events occur, and are successful,because of the selfless and untiring efforts of ourvolunteers and small staff team.From the office...continuedeconomy, so let’s make South Australiathe destination• Cycling EducationAmbassadors — supporting thedevelopment of child, adolescent andadult education programmes• Government RelationsAmbassadors — making a difference inpolicy development.To date, the response to our AmbassadorProgramme has been overwhelmingly positivewith many acceptances already received. Wewill be formally announcing the first round ofAmbassadors toward the middle of February.This is a great outcome and another featherin the cap of not just our hard working volunteersand staff but that the legitimacy of cycling inSouth Australia is cemented as a vital part ofbuilding a more sustainable community throughthe transport, recreation, health, environmentaland tourism sectors.Andrew Alford, Volunteer of the Year 2009, with Maureen Merrick(Pic by Luka Van Cauteren)This issue......continuedShort Spokesyou really understand Word or think it’s a glorifiedtypewriter.)With the recent Tour Down Under, cycling hasbeen getting a lot of good publicity recently. Oneof the visitors for the event was former Australiancycling great, Phil Anderson, who has a fewthoughts on page 11.Noone has written about TDU for Cycle!, butwe do have an item about the recent Amy’s Ridefrom Amy’s parents, and Warwick Cooper looksat the Cycling Dutchman rides, mixing cycling withart. From another continent, we have the latestinstallment from Anna and Ali on their ride fromnorth to south of the Americas. Closer to homewas Gear Up Girl, and we have a couple f itemsabout educational programmes.As always, we have some news of forthcomingevents, both Bicycle SA’s like Grand Slam,and those organised by others, like EarthRide — Adelaide on 28 March.ErratumThe photographs published on the frontcovers of the November to January 2010 editionof Cycle! and the Rides Programme Decemberto February 2010 should have included the nameof Rosemary Purcell and not Betty Higgins asindicated. We apologise for this oversight.GAD-BUG (Goolwa and Districts BicycleUser Group)We welcome the GAD-BUG group,coordinated by a long time Bicycle SA member,Gwen Pye, to our rides programme. The groupplan to meet at the Goolwa Rotunda at 8:00 amon Friday and Wednesday and at 8:30 am onSunday mornings. On Wednesdays they plan toride 25 km, on Fridays 50 km with a distance inbetween of 30 km on Sundays.When next you are in the area, the GAD-BUGgroup would be very happy for you to join them inone of their rides.Night EspressoAfter four years of coordinating the NightEspresso rides, Bruce Smith has passed thebaton on to Dean Lambert. We thank Bruce forhis commitment and encouragement of the groupand wish him well for the future.Heart of the Hills Ride Nos 1 and 2Stephen and Anita Russell have also decidedthat after two and a half years coordinating theHeart of Hills Rides they felt it was time to exploreother leisurely pursuits. We thank them for theirefforts and leadership of the group and also wishthem well in their future endeavours.4

So what is the fuss about Amy’s Ride?Mary and Denis SafeSeveral months after Amy’s death in July2005, Denis and I (Amy’s parents) were inMelbourne for a Foundation meeting. (The AmyGillett Foundation had been formed shortly afterAmy’s death to try to reduce the incidence ofdeath and injury on our roads caused by theinteraction between cyclists and motorists)On that day, we again met John Trevorrow,a cycling promoter who runs the Jayco cyclingseries in Geelong every January. John hadoriginally approached us some months before atAmy’s funeral in Ballarat, with the idea of staging aride in memory of Amy. His idea was to have a ridein which many of Amy’s friends and professionalcyclists who raced with her in Europe could paytribute to her, as well as help to promote the ësafecycling’ message which sat very well with theaims of the Foundation.Thus the concept of ‘The Amy’s Ride’ began.So far there have been four rides in Victoria,two in South Australia, one in Albury and one inQueensland. This year we will also be having ourfirst Amy’s ride in Canberra.I well remember that first Amy’s Ride inGeelong in 2006. Denis and I rode on borrowedhybrid bikes, lent to us by John Beasley who usedto coach Amy when she was a track rider, at thebeginning of her cycling career. I scarcely knewhow to work the gears, let alone get up the hill onthe Pt Arlington road. Warren McDonald (Wazza),who was the coach of the Australian women’steam in Europe, rode with us that day in memoryof Amy. I will always be grateful for his hand onmy back as he helped me up some of the moreserious hills!Fast forward to Nov 2009 for the secondAmy’s Ride here in SA with over 3000 riders. Somany people have asked Denis and me what theRide means to us.Of course it is an emotionally charged dayfor us as we have cause to look back on Amy’sMary Safe climbing up O’Halloran Hill at the 2009 Amy’s Ride (Pic by Epsom Rd Studios)life and the many beautiful memories she gaveus. We also love the camaraderie of all theriders taking part, friendships-old and new, greatorganisation of the event by Bike SA managementand staff , friendly and enthusiastic volunteers,seeing people striving to get up the Expresswayand enjoying the downhill reward, families gettinginvolved with their children and encouraging themwith their bike riding, the RED DEVIL, the funfinish in Maclaren Vale, but above all: riding withso many people committed to getting the safecycling message out there. The ride this year wasfocusing on the message ‘a metre matters’ whichwas on the back of all the jerseys. It is so pleasingto still see that message getting out there aspeople wear their jerseys on their usual rides outand about.Put all those factors together and it providesDenis and I with a magnificent experience filledwith great memories for the future.Amy used to be known for a saying ‘What’s allthe fuss about?’ She really didn’t like fuss in anyshape or form. She much preferred to get on withlife. However I think she would certainly agree thatwe need to make a fuss about trying to improvesafety for all on our roads. The Amy’s Rides arecertainly helping us to focus on safety issues.Thank you to all involved in the ride and wehope to see you all again in 2010.Safe cycling to all, and ‘May the wind bealways at your back.’For more info, contact safedm@adam.com.au2010 Grand Slam SeriesThe 2010 Grand Slam Series will kick off on28 February at Mt Torrens with a Grand Slamstretching 80 km and a Mini Slam covering 40 kmof beautiful Australian country.Riders can opt to complete the five GrandSlams over the course of the year to complete the2010 Grand Slam Series and go into the draw towin a Specialized Sirrus Sport Bike.Prices for adult members go from $34 forindividual ride without the official Grand Slamjersey to $170 for the Series with jersey.Life’s better on a bike >>>February – April 2010 >>>> 5

Adelaide City Bikes, anupdate!Kelly AllenWe’re delighted to announce three newlocations where you can hire free AdelaideCity Bikes. Supported by Adelaide City Council,the City Bikes scheme provides free bike hireevery day from the following new locations:Adelaide Zoo, Frome RdPar 3 gold links, War Memorial DriveMeridien Hotel, Melbourne StAnd the Adelaide Convention Centre willoperate as a City Bike node in the new year. Thisis in addition to the existing nodes:Bicycle SA office, Franklin StTravellers Inn, Hutt StBackpack Oz, Wakefield StRundle Street Markets (Sunday only)To meet the growing demand for the scheme,Bicycle SA is rolling out 100 new City Bikes: thevery distinctive Kona Africa Bikes. These are solid,unisex, 3-gear upright bikes perfect for cruisingaround Adelaide.Find out more at , e-mailKelly at Kona AfricaBikes give the Adelaide City Bikesscheme a new meaningMark Waldron, for GroupeSportifGroupe Sportif, theAustralian distributor forKona Bikes welcomes BicycleSA as a significant partner for2010.Bicycle SA has chosenthe Kona Africa bike for itsAdelaide based bike hireprogram due to its strength,serviceability and its socialconscience.As part of the program,for each two bikes put intoservice in the City of Adelaidean additional bike is donatedby Groupe Sportif and Kona to the Kona BasicNeeds program in developing nations.Kona Basic Needs primary initiative is todonate Kona AfricaBikes to organisationsand individuals who can directly benefit fromthe transportation virtues of the bicycle. KonaAfricaBikes will be going to a number of differentprojects over the coming years. The firstunder the Kona Basic Needs umbrella was inSeptember 2008 with the donation of 120 bikesto a water management project run by WWFTanzania. For more information, check out .Bicycle SA presents Earth RideAdelaide 2010Global warming, Environmental awareness,sustainable housing, ‘green’ transport, EarthHour, solar panels, etc. are concepts that are nolonger strange to us, instead we seem to indulgeon ‘green’ talk these days. But who can deny that‘eco’ living and sustainable transport are not the‘way of life’ in the future. Smoke blasting carsare so nineties... it’s all about becoming carbonneutral. With the evident climate change, soaringpetrol prices and concerns about low physicalactivity levels, interest in sustainability as well ashealthy, sustainable transport is stronger thanever before.Adelaide is well known for its ‘green’ effortstowards public transport, and with proud supportof the Adelaide City Council and the CapitalCity Committee, Bicycle SA received the offerto organise Earth Ride — Adelaide 2010, acommunity event that will be held in conjunctionwith the global Earth Hour, aimed at promotingenvironmental sustainability, including sustainabletransport options and encouraging behaviouralchange among patrons.Earth Ride is a global initiative to encouragepeople all around the world to help fight climatechange by riding a bike. It’s about takingresponsibility and actively making steps towards alow-carbon future.On Sunday 28 March, incorporating the outercity squares, Earth Ride — Adelaide 2010 willtake all participants on a car free, family friendly,entertaining, educational journey through the citystreets in support of Earth Hour. The aim is toattract up to 5,000 participants into the city toride.SA Police will be conducting a rolling roadclosure for the bike ride, meaning that the ride willtake 60 to 90 minutes (ride starting at 10:30 amand is expected to finish at midday), giving theriders and other patrons more time to spend inthe event village on Victoria Square.All five squares in the CBD will be themed(Water, Air, Earth, Fire) to coincide with andsupport the vision of Earth Ride — Adelaide 2010.Victoria Square will have a series of stalls thatwill be set up to allow participants to meanderand learn, not only about the many environmentalchallenges facing their community (and the worldas a whole) but to also take away solutions thatwill empower each individual to make a small butsignificant difference.Join us on 28 March 2010 from 9 am to 2 pm.Start and finish at Victoria Square!Invitation to MountainBike RidersBruce GreenhalghDear Mountain Bike Riders,You are cordially invited to attend any andall of the 2010 South Australian Mountain BikeOrienteering (MTBO) events.Dress: Your favourite riding gearBYO: Bike, map board, compass and sense of funand adventureDon’t forget to invite all your friends!The organisers of the 2010 MTBO season,which runs from April to October, would bepleased to see you at their events. All ages andabilities are catered for so why not give thisunique sport a try?The first event of the season is the LongDistance MTBO Teams Challenge to be held onSunday 11 April in the Adelaide Hills. This is a‘score’ event where controls (checkpoints) aregiven a point value and competitors choose whichcontrols they visit as they attempt to collect themost points possible in the specified time: eithertwo or four hours. Competitors ride in teams ofbetween two and five members so you won’t bealone tackling the problems of navigation. Thisevent, though, is designed to have easy navigationand if you can use a street directory you won’thave any problems. So it is a great introductionto the sport but still offers plenty of challenge tomore experienced teams.Information on the ‘Long Distance’ andfollowing events can be found in the Rides Guide,on the Orienteering Association of SA’s Web site or by contactingBruce Greenhalgh on or on 8342 3330.6

A recap on Gear Up Girl SA 2009Rosemary Purcelldon’t know what it is about cycling and blokes,I but there are a lot of them. Apparently theymake up around 75% of cyclists. But not on 29November. That was the girls’ day out.And what a day out we had. The severewet and windy weather of the day before wasforgotten as we came out in force. Caffeinecharged and with snacks and water on board weleft the rotunda with the full range of abilities andbikes on display as we rode our chosen route. Forme it was heading to my favourite playground, thehills, with a smallish group of riders. With greenlights all the way (oh what bliss) and a policeescort, we headed off through the city and up toMount Lofty.The riding was as easy or hard as we wantedas we strung out along the bike path next to thefreeway. A refreshment stop with the reliablevolunteer van fuelled us up for riding down NortonSummit Road. With a clearly marked route,and marshals at critical points, we were fullysupported. No excuses for taking wrong turns...unless like me you missed the turn off FullartonRoad and continued on around the notoriousroundabout, getting every redlight on the way back to therotunda.But, to greet us on ourreturn was more coffee,music, food and thecamaraderie of hundreds ofwomen who had made theeffort to come out.Oh, and there were a fewblokes too: volunteering theirtime to make the ride a greatsuccess. I hope the ridebecomes an annual eventin the recreational cyclingcalendar: all it will take isfor each of us to bring oneor two others with us thisyear. So come on girls, dustoff your bike and watch outfor the Gear Up Girl ride for2010.Rosemary PurcellNicole Whelan at Gear Up Girl SA (Pic by Luka VanCauteren)The good oil on bike maintenanceChris BeauchampTake 1You’re riding your old bike to work two or threedays a week. You know it’s saving you moneyin fuel, parking and general running costs (apartfrom the running your partner does in taking kidsto school, shopping, etc). And your fitness isimproving; it’s taking you less time to get thereand you’ve had to pull your belt in a notch or two.And because you are fitter you are really enjoyingyour new bike on those longer weekend rides.But the old clunker really doesn’t changegears all that smoothly and when you had to brakesuddenly for that car door earlier you weren’t sureif the brakes were going to pull you up in time.And one of the reasons your partner is drivingthe kids to school is because the wheel on yourdaughter’s bike is buckled and the brakes are iffyand maybe you should start riding your new biketo work. But then it won’t be pristine for thoseweekend rides.So it looks like another trip to the bike shopfor repairs. You hear your partner grumbling in theback of your head about how much of your moneyends up in the bike shop’s hands and isn’t cyclingsupposed to be cheaper and greener and costless and make us fitter and not soak up so muchcash.And you still haven’t got her bike fixed after thegear cable broke...Take 2But...you had to ride the new bike to workone day this week because you didn’t have quiteenough time to put the clunker back togetherready for the start of the week. That was anenjoyable ride, even managed to keep up with oldJim for a change!So now that you have cleaned and oiled theclunker’s chain, cleaned the yuk off the derailleur,and adjusted the gears, (that maintenance textbook has paid for itself already) it’s changinggears more smoothly than it has for yonks. Andtonight you are going to put the brakes backtogether after cleaning up the calipers andcables, then set up theadjustment, and it willstop without dramawhen that idiot openshis car door withoutlooking again.All the stuff youthought could only bedone by the bike shop,you just managedyourself after learningthe ropes at the BikeMaintenance Course!And your partner ispleased because youhave replaced the gearcable on her bike andfixed the brakes on yourdaughter’s bike, so she is riding to school andhome again with the kids several days a week.You still have to do a bit more work on the bucklein that wheel, although it’s heaps better than itwas.Not sure about the bottom bracket on theboy’s bike though. That might have to go tothe bike shop. Then you remember they talkedabout bottom brackets and bearings in the BikeMaintenance Course and it’s in the book. So‘maybe next weekend I can fix it’ you think.For more info on bike maintenance courses,visit , or contact ChrisBeauchamp at .Life’s better on a bike >>>February – April 2010 >>>> 7

Clare Easter CycleClare Easter Cycle CommitteeClare, 136 km and one and a half hour’s drivenorth of Adelaide and situated in the MidNorth region of South Australia, is the location ofthe 2010 Bicycle SA Easter Cycle, from 2 to 5April. The township was established by EdwardBurton Gleeson in 1842 and was named after hisancestral home of County Clare in Ireland.It is a very progressive and vibrant ruraltownship and regional centre and has a diverselocal economy of grape growing and wineproduction, broad acre farming, sheep and cattlefarming, and rapidly expanding tourism industry.Our campsite for the weekend will be atthe Oval and adjoining Valleys Lifestyle LeisureCentre, a stone’s throw from the main street ofClare. Registrations will open from 9:00 am on theFriday, with the activities concluding at 12:30 pmon Monday 5 April. There will be a variety ofrides, from the 1km exploration of the town tothe 50 km – 60 km and up to 100 km if you wouldreally like to be challenged, both on the bitumenand off road.Rides on the world famous Riesling Trail, and,of course, the Mawson Trail have been includedin the rides programme. This will be an excellentopportunity to explore the recently completed8km northern extension to the Riesling Trail.For the children and the young at heart therewill be the ever popular Easter egg hunt at8:00 am on the Sunday morning and the Sundaynight ride. All bikes will be checked prior to theride so to avoid disappointment please bringboth front and rear lights, adequately fixed to yourbikes!There will be ample time for wine (andfood) lovers to live their passion with the manywineries scattered throughout the region. Pleaseremember to ride back to the camp site at the endof your ‘wine tasting.’Lunch and dinner will be provided on theFriday, Saturday and Sunday, with breakfaston Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Otherrefreshments will be available throughout theweekend.Registrations, available on-line, includeindividual, family and group incentives and thenumbers will be limited to 200. Booking earlywill also avoid the late registration fee whichcommences from 5:00 pm Friday 26 March 2010.Registration forms are also available from theoffice, 111 Franklin St, Adelaide and/or phone8168 9999 email or.Opening of theNorthern Extension ofthe Riesling TrailAnother wonderful milestone for the Clarecommunity was the official opening of thenorthern extension of the Riesling Trail on Sunday15 November 2009. The 8 km extension joins thecurrent Trail at the former Clare Railway Stationthen heads out north east to Barinia, in the WhiteHut locality. The Premier, the Hon Mike Rann,cut the official ribbon. Other members of thecommunity present included The Mayor of theClare and Gilbert Valley, Mr Allan Aughey, theformer Mayor, Mrs Patricia Jacka, the Memberfor Frome, Mr Geoff Brock, and the Chair ofthe Riesling Trail Management Committee, MrGraham Mill.Over $300,000.00 was raised from the localcommunity, including in-kind business support forthe construction of the 8 km extension.The Riesling Trail is now totals 33 km. Tothe south, the Rattler Trail from Auburn toRiverton is currently being re-surfaced and whencompleted, it is hoped, in the new year, will addfurther kilometres, regional diversity, wineriesand, of course, eating places to this unique andincreasingly popular Trail.(Courtesy Northern Argus)Introducing...My name is Lukado not live on the second floor and nor am I aI boy, as the world famous song and many othersof you presume. My name is Luka because I madeit up as a nickname in the year 2000.None of this however is why I have an articlenamed after myself in this edition of Cycle!The reason for this is because I would like tointroduce myself as the new marketing andcommunications manager of Bicycle SA and aswith many duties, I hope to be the linking chainbetween you and our organisation, keeping youup-to-date with all the facts and events that are apart of our and your lives as a cyclist.If you are still wondering why I made up myown nickname, there is a simple reason. My realname is just too hard to pronounce in English.This is due to the fact that I was born and raisedin the small but beautiful country of Belgium.There are several attractions as to why Iapplied for a job with Bicycle SA. One of thereasons is that I strongly believe in bicycletransportation and see great potential in Adelaidebecoming a cycling-heaven. Growing up ridingmy bicycle to school, to the local bakery for freshcroissants, to friends’ houses for precious pyjamaparties, there is a certain evidence in my mind thatthinks riding a bicycle is just as easy as eating apiece of Belgian chocolate with your afternooncoffee. And both causes I support full-heartedly.Another obvious reason is because I enjoymy people-oriented position. Learning how tocommunicate with the social riders, the mountainbikers, the avid ‘roadies’, is very fascinating andI like the challenge of finding ways to market ourprogrammes and rides to the general public. Withtoday’s online world being so accessible, mybackground in Web and computer tools helps me.I’ll be looking to improve our online presence onestep at a time; however I will always value genuinepure human contact above all.So if you happen to meet me on an event,don’t be shy to come and say hi. I am very keen tomeet the people I try to reach out to and find outhow I can communicate better with you.And don’t forget; always look on the bike sideof life!Luka (or Goedele) Van Cauteren, Marketing andCommunications Manager, lukac@bikesa.asn.auJulia GeorgeHi, I’m Julia George the recently appointedEvent Coordinator at Bicycle SA. I bringwith me my diverse background, which includesmarketing, sales and event managementexperience. I began my career with universitystudies, graduating with a Bachelor ofManagement (Marketing) and have been workingin the field for just over two years. My passion iswith event coordination, I thoroughly enjoy theend result and all the work that goes into makingit happen!I will be working on two exciting new eventsat Bicycle SA: Earth Ride—Adelaide 2010 andSustainable Transport Day (to be based in theAdelaide CBD). Both events are part of a globalinitiative empowering people to make a differencein dealing with climate change and encouragingthem to learn about sustainable living optionsand positive solutions that they can implementinto their daily lives to help combat environmentaldamage. This issue has never been more relevantthan today, hence the importance for theseevents. Think globally, act locally.8

Life as a Bike EdcoordinatorKay Davis‘Wow, you go around schools teaching kids toride a bike on the road?!’ ‘What a great job!’I’m used to this. When meeting peoplefor the first time the subject of professionsusually comes into the conversation, and thisis a standard response to someone finding outabout my job, and it always has been. Being aBike Ed Coordinator is a great job; maybe that’swhy I have stayed in the role for so many years!Together with two or three instructors I travelaround SA delivering a Bike Ed program to 9 –12year olds. During the school term we work inmetro schools anywhere between Victor Harborand Elizabeth North and sometimes further;delivering to one school per day for seven weekseducating an average of 90 children in bikesafety and skills. We are a skilled bunch; someinstructors are teachers, some have a wealth ofeducational knowledge and qualification, and onething we all share is a passion for cycling!So what does a Bike Ed coordinator do thatis so important? We show children how much funcycling can be and how useful bikes can be fortransport instead of cars, buses and trains. Weshow children the freedom cycling gives and theindependence a bike can be to any age: no moreasking mum for a lift!Educating children to be safer cyclists is apriority we all believe in.‘Bike Ed: what a brilliant idea!’ This commentwas made by teachers at Barmera PrimarySchool at the end of 2009 school term. TwoBike Ed teams, eight of us in total, delivered aseven session program to 170 local Barmerachildren. Many of the children displayed excellentbike skills but cycling around the town round-aaboutwas a different thing altogether! Duringthe program kids learnt the road rules, how topass parked cars, turning left and right as well asnegotiating roundabouts safely on a bike. A cooljob? Not always as we cycle during the summerterm. A great job? Definitely!For more info, contact .Low and steady gets you there, eventuallySimon BrockhoffBicycle SA President Maureen collared meat the final 2009 Grand Slam ride andsuggested I put my perspective of riding myhandcycle in words for the Cycle! magazine. Sohere’s a bit of information about that low, weirdlooking thing you all overtake, unless you startriding before me.The bike is from the US. It’s an aluminiumframe with 26 inch wheels and 27 speeds whichsteers through the front forks like a bike. It weighsaround 15 kilos.It has fairly low gearing in comparison toa roadbike, 11 – 32 cluster and 28 – 40 – 48chainrings. I certainly use all of them, especiallythe low ones as I live in the hills and there’s noway out but up! If you know Fox Creek Roadthat is about as steep as I climb regularly.There’s a short steeper climb near Forest Rangecalled Stentiford Road but I’ll only do that veryoccasionally if I feel like tearing a bicep or similar.Now, going down is a different storyaltogether, great feeling getting up to 80 clicks. Idon’t trust the stability too much when it comesto high speed cornering though; centre of gravityplays a big part. I rolled a handcycle when I firststarted riding and it’s not too much fun as youdon’t separate from them too easily: just shut youreyes and wait for the scraping noises to stop.One positive that came out of crashing was that itfixed a sore neck I’d had for weeks!I get out for a ride at least twice a week allyear round, all weather. The alloy handgripscause a loss of feeling in the hands on frostymornings through full finger gloves until the daywarms up. I’m not into tackling traffic so I stick toquieter roads early in the morning. A typical ride isaround three to four and a half hours up to 90 kmdistance. I’ve ridden up to six hours but eventuallytire of riding and start craving Vita Brits withPromite and cheese.Most of my rides end up averaging between17 to 21 km/h, not all that fast but that includesclimbing up what I call ‘hills’, I guess cyclistswould regard most only as ‘rises’. A flat road withno wind sees me sitting on around 26 km/h.Flat tyres are annoying as are gear cableouters that fray where it goes into the shiftermechanism on the handgip. Because it goesaround like a whip about 80 times a minute ittends to snap that last 10 mm every now andthen, which throws the gearing adjustment outthe window. Not hard to fix when I get homebut annoying when it happens. Maybe one ofthose electronic derailleurs could go on my lottowishlist.The most common sight I see are curiouscattle looking at me. They can sense you from along way away and I smile when I look across tosee them checking me out from afar. Next mostcommon is drivers pointing at me from their car,alerting their passengers to the weird monster. Iwonder how the Pandas deal with fame?Dogs freak me out as my arms flail around atjust the right height for a bite but magpies are notan issue due to my safety flag. Those things scareanything away.Sitting low behind the front wheel results ingetting very grimy in wet conditions and dairyroad crossings must be approached carefully forobvious reasons. I get close to nature down lowand have seen some interesting things crossingthe road, like the mouse spider with their verybright red head.I’ve read about a Queenslander whohandcycled 16,000 km around Australia in 2005.The same bloke is joining a South Australianhandcyclist in February for a fundraising ride fromMelbourne to Darwin.South Australia currently has a femaleparalympian handcyclist in Mel Leckie. Due to alack of numbers there is no racing in this stateso anyone who’s serious about competition hasto do a lot of travelling. We’ve attempted to getsome criterium racing up and going throughWheelchair Sports in conjunction with Cycling SAbut unfortunately don’t get enough interest fromenough handcyclists.So there you see, handcycling does get mesomewhere. Eventually.See you out there.Life’s better on a bike >>>February – April 2010 >>>> 9

Roxy Baratosy goes cyclingRoxy BaratosyHi. My name is Roxy (Roxana) and up untilrecently I was involved with Bicycle SA’sBike Ed programme. I was able to work with anamazing bunch of people that I got to know andlove. But the time has come. The reason that iworked, saved and trained for is fast approaching.I will be leaving in a week to finally get back ontothe road again. I have been so lucky to be ableto nourish this need for touring quite a few timesnow.My partner Aaron and Ihave ridden all aroundAdelaide and its own unique surroundings. Wehave ridden from Adelaide to Melbourne via theGreat Ocean Road, pedalled all around beautifulTasmania, and have been lucky enough to ridefrom the top of Vietnam to the bottom, throughCambodia and then across Thailand and into thebustling city of Bangkok. However none of thesetrips have been as grand and will take as long asthis ride that is so near.Leaving for a ride that is going to take thislong is a really hard thing to mentally prepare for.We will have to completely change our lifestyles.Our home will be a tent, we will eat (what I hopeto be tasty as well as healthy food) out of a jetboil, shower outside, underneath trees with ourportable solar shower, pay no bills, not really haveto work (only when we run low on money), butmost importantly of all, will make our way aroundAustralia purely by pedal power. So exciting! Weare expecting this trip around Australia to takea year and a half, however leaving a place andhaving no reason to come back could mean that itcould take much longer. So who will tell?One question people always ask, or probablythink is, “Why are you doing this?” I have manyreasons; the younger Dungeons and Dragonsplayer in me wants real adventure. But I also knowthe feeling of peak fitness and health and it feelsamazing, I love camping and the outdoors, andof course riding a bicycle anywhere makes a tripeven more intimate and worthwhile. It allows youto actually connect with the different regions,people and animals that you will most definitelycome across. I want to learn all that I can aboutthe real Australia and do it in a way that I will getthe most out of it.I hope that people drive past me in the middleof nowhere, perhaps in the desert, sitting intheir seats with pins and needles from their longjourney, realising as they see us through the glassbefore their eyes how much they are missing out. Ihope they think about how much the human bodycan accomplish with a completely sustainablemode of transport, that has so many benefits andgives you so much more than a car ever could. Ican only hope.Wish me well.A non-cyclist’s view of life with two enthusiastic cyclistsFelicity HorganLet me pin my colours to the mast at the outset,so that we can get all the rotten-tomatothrowingover and done with: I hate cycling. Ifirmly believe it to be the most barbaric form oftransport ever invented. I agree with the NettiWeb site’s banner slogan that “God created Hellbecause he hadn’t thought up cycling yet.” I don’tnecessarily agree with their rider that “The painwill set you free.” (Believe me, that hasn’t workedso far.) It’s not that I haven’t tried to like cycling. Ihave, long and painfully (some other time I’ll showyou my scars). But given that my menfolk werementioned in so many dispatches in the last issueof Cycle!, I’m prompted to point out that much oftheir achievement is possible only because mineis non-existent.It’s not that I do nothing that’s cyclingrelated. I make the multigrain, low GI bread fortheir sandwiches. I created a low GI, sugarfree,fruity cake for them so that they could getthe energy hit without the sugar high. I oftenget up early to make their porridge before theylaunch themselves into the morning. I laundertheir cycling clothes, fold them and keep themmended.I’m a dab hand at mending saddlebags, too,with my ‘should patent it’ nylon filament andpolythene thread combo that is sturdy and flexible.Because I’m nifty with a needle, I’m making themarm and leg reflective strips for the price of acheap hi-vis vest and the expenditure of a smallamount of (my) energy.I’m the one with the clues about eucalyptusoil for cleaning black marks off frames. I’m theone who suggests using the old film canistersthat make fabbo containers for all the travel-sizedamounts of chamois cream. I’m the one whoremembered that, back in the bad old days whenyou stripped a thread, aluminium foil was thego for a quick-fix solution. I long ago suggestedlemon juice to help sweeten the water in thehydration pack (a suggestion they adopted inan adapted form only after receiving very similaradvice from an experienced endurance rider). I goout to work and earn the money that they spendwith such gay abandon on gear and entry fees,not to mention those café stops.I act as their personal sag wagon andtravelling first-aider, often forgoing my ownrecreational sporting activity of social rowing inorder to be available in case of their need. I’mtheir masseuse (rosemary oil for muscles that aremerely tired; goanna oil for when they’re sore).When the wheels fall off — or, to be moreaccurate, the tyres burst — who’s there, coolorange juice or iced coffee in one hand and clean,dry clothes in the other, to collect them and theirbikes and bring them home again? You got it inone. I am.Don’t run away with the idea that I’m againstcycling. It’s a wonderful sport for other people.I could regale you with tales of how Dr B wentfrom being an obese couch potato to a svelteaudax rider in eight or nine months. I could singBoy’s praises. He’s a young teenager and has twoaudax rides to his credit, each of them over thedistance of 200 km. Had it not been for a rowinginjury, he’d have cycled the Grand Slam seriesthis year. As it was, he completed a combinationof the Mini and Grand Slams. Dr B, who is semiretired,frighteningly obsessive compulsive andfree to do pretty much as he pleases, has cycledabout 9000 km in just under a year. Boy hascycled about 6500 km. They seriously enjoy theircycling and I’m delighted that they do. But it’s abit rich when they insist I ought to like it too. “Justget on your bike and ride the damn’ thing,” theytell me. Yeah, right. And when would that be, doyou reckon?!12

The Cycling Dutchman ridesWarwick CooperThe Cycling Dutchman rides were planned asa simultaneous celebration of the Adelaideproduction of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchmanand the suburban and city little art galleries.Wagner’s drama of the eternal wanderer wasto be symbolised by the journey of the cyclingloop (theoretically it has no end!) and the artgalleries to be our ports of call. The planning forthe execution of this whimsical concept providedmoments that varied from the elegant wit ofcomedy of manners to the experience of living in aBeethoven pause.The saga of the planning ended as it must. Theday for the first ride dawned. We gathered at theBicycle SA headquarters in Franklin Street. Thebuilding was originally a bus station for intra andinterstate travellers, thus lending a Wagnerianaura to the backdrop of our gathering. The brightsunshine of the day and the windless air dispelledany sense of tragic doom, as did the humour ofour good companion.The first leg of our cycling amble was a tourof the side streets where we discovered thatAdelaide has, almost since its inception, beena pluralistic city. This is perhaps most clearlyillustrated by the mosque in Little Gilbert Street.It was established in 1889 by some 100 ‘Afghan’camel drivers who worked in outback SouthAustralia, so that they could attend at least oncea year. The minarets were built in 1903, whichseem like steeples to remind us of humanity’squest for a perennial philosophy. We now headnorth across the city with its landscape in visualconflict between the revolution of modernity andthe empathy of an evolution that relates pastand present creatively. While traversing thesestreets one is struck by the frequency of used anddisused taverns and hotels, clearly established inthe 19th century.Leaving what must have been the alcoholichaze of colonial Adelaide, we visit our first gallery,the ‘Jam Factory’ Contemporary Craft and DesignGallery at 19 Morphett Street. Patricia, from theGallery had generously organised a tour for ourgroup. We were shown the glass blowing work,and workshops for ceramics, metal and furniture,as well as the work on display in the galleries,such as Resource — Re-Source and Idol Moments.The latter exhibition is wonderfully humorous withan innocence that is childlike but paradoxicallymature. It was something I wanted to share withmy grandchildren. In the Gallery shop I foundtwo breakfast bowls, the art of which caught thepersonalities of the said grandchildren, and whichneedless to say I sent to them. Independent ofthis experience, the tour made it clear that thisspace is of concentrated conceptual and creativethought which express the uniqueness of SouthAustralia both humanly and environmentally in artthat is both design and craft.Thus inspired, we navigated our way toLife’s better on a bike >>>the parklands, travelled paths by the turbidTorrens Lake and its sub-aqueous bubbling,and weaved through the traffic jams caused bypanda-enclosure construction to Hackney Road.Crossing it, we flanked the green playing fieldsand dreaming halls of St Peter’s College, knownaffectionately to this ex-local as Hackney High,traversed the Oedipal junction of the Maid andMagpie corner and arrived at the Greenway ArtGallery of Kent Town.The Director of the Gallery arrived as weentered and gave an illuminative talk, withparticular reference to the abstract paintingsinspired by various iconic pieces of corporatedesign. Thus, for me, the previously inert abstractimages came to life as a quantum world of thedesign within (or behind) the design. All meaningsand reference points seemed to slither into aworld informed by Heisenberg’s Principle ofUncertainty.Our experiences or cycling and art hadworked up an appetite. The group agreed to tryone of Bill’s and my favourite breakfast placesfor lunch; namely Nano’s. Thus a short ride tothe redeveloped East End Markets, and we aresettling down to a scrumptious lunch. Sitting inthe sun, surrounded by good-humoured repartee,and experiencing the pleasant meditative feelingof the earthward journey of digesting lunch, I can’thelp regretting the necessity to move. Ah well!The next gallery we visited was Tandanya.This is a gallery filled with vibrant and profoundpainting by Aboriginal artists. In the gallery weexperience painting that not only express thetradition of the people it belongs to, but also howthat tradition expresses, recreates itself, dialoguesand conflicts with the contemporary situation.Philosophers such as Wittgenstein argue thatart pictures the world that lies beyond the limitsof language. Studying these paintings, one feelsthey are experiencing that wish to be translatedinto new words that will extend the existing limits.The pressure of such a concept seems to informNoel Pearson’s essay on educational equality,‘Radical Hope’, in Quarterly Essay No 35.The Stephen Sinclair Gallery in Halifax Streetwas sadly closed, despite saying it was open;the paradox of art and reality! This led to a tourof the now gentrified streets, but I can rememberanother world where characters lived such asOld Dutchy, who would walk rain or shine. If itwas the former, he would rage like Lear for thelighting to strike him and the rain to drown himrather than just be damp and depressing. Ah!Memories! Tomsey Street, Ada Street, children,the races in Victoria Park, tadpoles. We circled toGawler Place, then north to the Flinders UniversityCity Gallery, nestled in the State Library of SouthAustralia building on North Terrace. This is afascinating space. The collection of art, Fiona,the Gallery’s Director explained, represents thephilosophical, conceptual, research and socialconcerns of the university. The exhibition we sawwas of photographs of landscapes that expressedeither their relationship to the heritage of theirland or origin or the Australian environment.Another example, I felt, of art’s quest to create viapictures, a future poesis from the contemporarycrucible of experience.By now we were running out of time, andfeeling a sense of exhaustion for the multiplicityof ideas we had contacted, and so decided tohead for base via one or two remaining galleries,which meant we missed the Royal AustralianSociety of Arts workshop demonstration. Timeis merciless, and the afternoon was hot! A briefpause at the Art Space Gallery of the FestivalCentre to experience the still coolness of Asianfabric design. Press on to the Samtag Gallery ofthe University of South Australia for the Gallipoliexhibition. Emma, the Gallery Director, tells me itis on next Wednesday. I had clearly got the datesconfused; the affliction of age. Nothing daunted,we swing around to the Contemporary Art Gallerynear the Jam Factory. We experience a room inwhich the space is sculpted by an apparentlycollapsed structure and the walls are paintedwith scribbled words. Colour feels chained and aseries of grey or white-grey pervades the space.Music fills the space and sculpts the silence; it isimprovised by live musicians. The music arguesfor pause and meditation, but we cannot. It is theend of our day. The world beyond cycling and arthas its appointments, which must be kept.We return to Bicycle SA weary but rewardedby our day of cycling to the little art galleries ofAdelaide. The other two gallery rides planed forthe Wagner season had to be cancelled, due tothe November heatwave. This was very sad forall concerned, but they will be revived for anothertime.I would like to thank all the gallery staff whohelped make it a doubly special experience on theday, by sharing their critical knowledge of art.February – April 2010 >>>> 13

The Fuego Project Update...continuedlooking to escape the heat built mansions,schools, imposing churches and monasteries,all in chalk white facades with black windowframes and colonial red-tiled roofs. The old townof Popayan was a delight to wander around withit’s cobble-stoned streets, fresh fruit vendorsand colonial architecture and churches. Not tomention the Natural History Museum of Colombiawith a fascinating if slightly morbid collectionof stuffed birds and animals of the region allenthusiastically painted.Climbing to San AgustinFrom Popayan to San Agustin is 140 km butit was going to be a big climb up from 1700 m to3200 m to cross the Cordillera Central on a rockymountain road before descending back down to1700 m and San Agustin. Many cyclists choosenot to ride this stretch of road and instead take abus, notorious as a road in very poor condition,extremely remote with very few places to stay orget food and also once (and maybe still is) theterritory of the FARC-EP (the Fuerzas ArmadasRevolutionarias de Colombia rebel group). Withall these things in mind we headed off fromPopayan, looking for some adventure, hopingto spend some time up in the Paramo (the highmoor-like plains above 3000 m in the Andes), andto get off the beaten track, away from the traffic ofthe Panamericana highway.We broke the climb on the first day bystopping at the hot springs ‘Agua Hirvienda’ nearCoconuco to soak our bones for the afternoon.The next day the paved road ended and theclimbing began on loose rocky gravel roads.We climbed steeply through a lush green valleythat the headwaters of the Cauca river havecarved out, up to Paletara. After another roadside‘bandeja’ with soup, mountain trout, rice, lentilsand plantains we headed out onto the Paramowith the goal of reaching San Jose de Isnos forthe day, still a mere 70 km away. The Paramo is adistinctive moor-like environment in the northernAndes, and the green, orange, red and brownhues of low alpine vegetation was reminiscentof the highlands of Tasmania with large daisy‘frailejones’ standing like fields of sentinels in anotherwise barren landscape.We topped out at around 3200 m in VolcanPurace National Park as the road becamewetter we road past walls of impenetrable greencloud forest dodging puddles and potholes andbeing rewarded with an occasional glimpse ofspectacular views of endless forest draped inclouds as far as the eye could see. The problemwas that the kilometres were not passing by tooquickly. We continued to climb then dropped toa river, then climbed again. We had only come20 km since Paletara, it soon became clear wewould not make it to Isnos the next town at thisrate. Our thoughts then turned to a smaller townwith ‘residencias’ (small family run hotels) atkilometre 100, still 30 km away, or a restaurantwhere we could camp. A misty rain started andthen the downhill really started. Guiding ourloaded bikes around deep puddles, through rockysections that would put some mountain bike trailsto shame, our bikes were relatively flying alongbetween 15 – 20 km/h compared to the rest ofthe day. We were passing through forest whichis home to the spectacled bear (Oso andino) aswell as the mountain tapir. So with some adrenalinrushing i half expected around every racing bendto see the elusive shape of a bear or a tapirshrinking into the green of the forest. But alas, nobears, no tapirs, just the knowledge that they existup here high in the Andean Paramo and cloudforest.With the welcoming sight of a Parador (truckstop restaurant) at kilometre 87, the first thing wehad seen for over 40 km of remote forest riding,we asked if we could camp at the side of therestaurant. ‘Sure, not a problem’ the man toldus. We set up camp alongside the restaurantnext to a huge woodpile, the chicken yard (whichalways assures an early morning wake-up call)and a number of women toiling over large potsof boiling food. No sooner had Anna pulled thetent out of the bag, we were surrounded by sixmilitary personnel armed with semi-automaticweapons at their side, some only 18 years of agewho curiously watched the crazy gringo couple onbikes set up their home. It turned out this Paradorwas also a military base and checkpoint, and wewere not going to be alone here. We have neverbeen observed setting up our tent under thewatch of armed forces before, but they were justbored and curious as to why 1) you would want toride your bike on a road like the one we just had?2) why you would want to camp in the rain at aroadside restaurant?So we shared warm cups of coffee withthese military boys, after an epic day on theroad, checked out their weapons, answered theirquestions, tried to find out more of their lives,ate and then fell asleep under the shimmeringColombian stars, with the sound of bus enginesidling by the ripe hour of 7:30 pm.The next day was mostly downhill to the heatof the Magdalena river valley, before a cruel, hot5km climb up to the village of San Agustin and tothe Casa de Ciclistas ‘Finca la Campesina’ withour hosts Igel, Paola, Rambo (the bike travellingrat terrier) and Costena (the gentle rottweiler).San AgustinSan Agustin is the main archeological site insouthern Colombia dating back 5000 years, withlarge stone statues carved from volcanic rock anddepicting mythical creatures, humans and sacredanimals scattered across the countryside alongwith many tombs, and carvings in river beds. Themeaning of much of the archeological remainsis open to interpretation as this civilisation hadno written language and they had disappearedbefore the arrival of the Europeans, but it’s anonetheless impressive feat of stone carving setin the rich and fertile hills of the Magdalena valley.We also took to the saddle on horseback.Much to my intrepidation, but Anna’s excitement,we rode rough dirt trails through the steep hillsof the surrounding areas. This was no gentleexcursion or introduction to horses for me, underthe crack of the whip of our guide my horse tookoff into a gallop smashing it uphill, I just had tohold on. And like that, I learnt how to ride a horsecomplete with complimentary wounds on my bum.The Parque Archeologico and the surroundingcountryside is the main attraction but for us it wasalso to visit the Casa de Ciclistas and institutionof Latin America where traveling cyclists areoffered hospitality by other cyclists. In this place,Igel and Paola, a German couple and bike touringfamily, own a finca a kilometre from town wherethey have camping areas, kitchen and bathroomfor travelling bikers.We have spent the past five days here on thefinca celebrating Christmas with Igel and Paola atthe Casa de Ciclista, cooking wood oven pizzas,eating good food, hanging out with the dogs,sharing stories of the road and doing very little.Although Anna is rediscovering her artistic sidepainting hummingbirds and hedgehogs in the newcasita, while I learnt that digging out clay soil andbuilding a footpath in my attempt to do some realwork with my ‘soft’ cyclist’s hands will result inblisters!Muchas gracias a Igel, Paola, Rambo, Costenay Teo for our relaxing time on the finca.The next leg of our journey is a dirt mountainroad between Mocoa back up into the Andes toPasto and then into Ecuador.Hasta la proxima vez.Parque Archeologico: these stones wereused as tombstones16

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