Locations
Where the ride starts
Eleven Australian cities, chosen because each one sits within reach of genuinely different riding. Pick the city you are flying into and work outward from there.
South-east corridor
Linked by sealed highway, so one ride can pass through several.
- Sydney Coast and escarpment, with a mountain wall to the west New South Wales
- Melbourne Cool-climate coast that turns into alpine country inland Victoria
- Brisbane Subtropical ranges behind a warm coast Queensland
- Adelaide Hills rising straight off a grid-planned city South Australia
- Hobart Cold temperate, mountains close to the water Tasmania
The north, west and centre
Longer approaches, monsoon seasons, and legs planned around fuel.
- Cairns Rainforest ranges dropping to a tropical coast Queensland
- Darwin Monsoon country with a hard wet season Northern Territory
- Alice Springs Desert ranges cut by dry river gaps Northern Territory
- Perth A coastal plain with a low escarpment to the east Western Australia
- Broome Tropical coast behind a red pindan hinterland Western Australia
- Exmouth Arid limestone cape between two oceans of desert Western Australia
How to use these pages
A location page is not a list of attractions. It sets out the riding geography around a city — which roads go where, what the surface and the weather do, how far the good stuff is from the edge of town — and links to the longer guides that cover the detail.
If you are planning a route between two of these cities rather than a loop out of one, start with the trip ideas, then read the state guide for the roads in between.