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Fat bike on a grassy hilltop at sunset with ranges fading into the distance Sunset camp near Buckland, Victoria

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Fat bike, full bags and the long way round. Red dirt, alpine fire trails and everything between.

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The long way round

I started bicycle touring at nine, on a BMX, with my brother, who was 14. From 2010 my tours often towed a cargo trailer with solar panels. In 2012 I moved to a Koga Signature touring bike, and these days it’s a black fat bike with a belt drive, a full frame bag and rear panniers.

The fat tyres float over sand and mud that would stop a touring bike dead, which opens up a lot of country: outback tracks in the Northern Territory and Queensland, and the steep fire trails of the Victorian Alps.

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Green tent and fat bike on a grassy ridge with snow on the distant ranges

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From the road

The fat-bike years first, then a few from the old touring days. Tap a photo to see it big.

  • Black fat bike with frame bag and rear panniers leaning on a red dirt track lined with desert scrub
    Loaded up on the red sand near Titjikala, Northern Territory
  • Aerial view of a lone cyclist on a straight gravel road across flat grassland
    A long gravel road near Boulia, outback Queensland
  • Green tent and fat bike on a grassy ridge with snow on the distant ranges
    Camp on the ridge near Bogong, Victoria
  • Small green tent and fat bike at a bush camp under rocky red hills and a heavy grey sky
    Bush camp in Central Australia
  • Fat bike and a one-wheel trailer with red and black panniers, leaning on a snow pole with a snow-capped peak behind
    Spring snow in the Victorian High Country
  • Fat bike on a grassy hilltop at sunset with ranges fading into the distance
    Sunset camp near Buckland, Victorian Alps
  • Fat bike beside a rock wall hung with icicles
    Winter icicles near Tatra Inn, Mt Buffalo
  • Loaded fat bike leaning on a log beside a dirt track through snow gums
    Dirt track near Hotham Heights, Victoria
  • Green tent among alpine shrubs facing a snowy mountain
    Tent with a view, Victorian Alps
  • Green tent on a gravel river flat among tall gums
    Riverside camp near Talbotville, Victoria
  • Fat bike in the foreground with rugged blue mountains behind
    Below the ranges near Dandongadale, Victoria
  • Black fat bike beside a flooded lake under a big blue sky
    The fat bike when it was new, August 2023
  • Touring bike silhouetted under the Milky Way
    The old Koga touring bike under the Milky Way, 2013
  • Loaded touring bike on a dirt road in the Flinders Ranges
    Mawson Trail, South Australia, 2013
  • Touring bike at Dead Horse Gap in the Snowy Mountains
    Dead Horse Gap, 2012

From the archive

Older touring films from the archive. The first two have passed 100,000 views each.

  • Loaded fat bike leaning on a log beside a dirt track through snow gums
    Phone · tilt to steer

    Stay On

    Hold your phone like handlebars and keep a loaded touring bike upright past magpies, roos, dogs and road trains. It uses your phone’s tilt sensor, so it opens on its own page.

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  • Fat bike and a one-wheel trailer with red and black panniers, leaning on a snow pole with a snow-capped peak behind
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