Across Australia on a bike

November 02nd, 2005

Jakub Postrzygacz desided that regular mountain biking routes just aren’t any fun so he set himself a challenge – cycling the Canning Stock Route in western australia across three deserts, nine hundred steep sand hills and to top it all there’s no decent supply of food or water and no safe way of escape for nearly 2.000 kilometers.

This isn’t just any old route and you can tell that just by looking at his bike that rolls on 4 inch!! wide tires (regular MTB sizes are 1.8-2.3) to float on sand rather than sink. It would be completely impossible to do this on regular wheels unless you want to push 90% of the way.

CSR has been marked out nearly 100 years ago
by Alfred Canning to drive the cattle from Perth to the
opposite corner of the continent. However, the
conditions were so harsh and casualties so high that
CSR never truly served its purpose and was forgotten.
In 1968 a group of surveyors for the first time drove
the complete length of the track with specially prepared
motor vehicles. Despite numerous attempts, no-one
has ever cycled CSR…

Insane…