Overnight bikepacking

Feel like a bikepacking adventure is out of reach due to your busy schedule? Then this is the trip for you.

The plan is roughly to catch the 4:30pm Bendigo train from Southern Cross to Kyneton and then ride 45km (400m elevation gain) to Vaughan Springs Campsite (https://www.strava.com/routes/3550673287743880388), where we will set up camp and use the BBQs to cook dinner. In the morning we will wake up at 6, pack up camp and ride 15km (214m elevation gain) to Castlemaine (https://www.strava.com/routes/3550669305112372150), where we will grab a coffee and some breakfast before catching the 6:51 train back to Melbourne and arriving back at Southern Cross at 8:30.

In order to come on this trip you must:

• Have a working bike that can take the required overnight gear

• Feel comfortable riding on country roads that may have no shoulder
• Competent bike rider
• Understands road rules Own lights and charge them
• Can change a punctured tube
• Can apply lubricant to a chain
• Can pack a bike appropriately
• Be able to ride with an average speed of around 25km/h with a loaded bike
•  Be able to demonstrate experience riding similar distances at the required speed (ie strava activity)

The meeting for this trip is on Friday the 17th of November and it will be possible to hire an equipment needed. Attending the meeting is a requirement to coming on the trip. If you need to hire gear please remember to bring a $50 cash deposit. The cost for this trip will be two days of Myki fares, gear hire and any food you need.