Andrew Bain

BA Press

RRP $34.95 HB 221pp

Cycling guidebook featuring 45 rides around Tasmania. With clear directions, stunning photography, GPS generated mapping, and interesting background information. Author, Andrew Bain has ridden just about every nook and cranny of Tasmania.

Tasmania is surely one of Australia’s most beautiful states. When you combine this natural beauty with a relative lack of traffic compared to the mainland states, you get a cyclists’ paradise just waiting to be explored!
Where to Ride Tasmania with 45 great rides features accurate mapping, altitude profiles, point by point ride logs and a range of ride difficulties from one to five star ratings. One star rides are within the abilities of the most casual tourists, young children or other beginner cyclists. Five star rides will have experienced cyclists grinning from ear to ear.
The rides in this book range right across the island, from family fun rides in Hobart and Launceston, to long days out on the open road, to singletrack rushes on purpose-built mountain biking tracks.
There are few places in Tasmania where you can ride and not be impressed with the scenery. In these pages you will find routes that offer not just great pedalling but also scenes such as Cradle Mountain, Port Arthur, the Bay of Fires,Mount Roland, the tall timber of the Styx Valley, Mount Wellington, Mara Island, Bruny Island, Strahan, the Nut and the states highest waterfall.
What could be better than to get away on your bike with a friend to explore the glorious and pristine Tasmania!

Author Profile
Andrew’s passion for cycling was born the easy way – on a 20,000 kilometre ride around Australia (including Tasmania) a decade ago, a journey that because the book Headwinds. Subsequent cycle journeys have seen him towing his children across Europe, cycle-surfing the corrugations to Cape York and lapping around Bali.
A former sportswriter who decided he preferred the open road to the half-forward flank, Andrew is also the author of A Year of Adventures and lead author of Lonely Planet’s Cycling Australia and Walking in Australia guidebooks.
He lives in Hobart with his two children and three bikes, which might say something about his priorities.