News from Mulga Bicycle Tours

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31 March 2025

“There’s always one item a business has for sale—and that’s the business itself.”

That advice was given to us nearly 30 years ago, not long after we first started working for ourselves. At the time, it felt like a throwaway line but over the years, we’ve come to appreciate the wisdom in it.

Now, it’s our turn. After eight wonderful years of running Mulga Bicycle Tours - an Australian-based business offering fully supported, small-group cycling holidays - we’ve made the decision to sell. Not because anything’s wrong but because it’s time for us to step back, breathe a little deeper, and make room for new adventures of our own.

Our love of cycling isn’t going anywhere, but it’s time for someone new to take the lead in our adventure tourism business.

The daytime running and night lights we use

30 January 2024

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After our recent evening ride to watch the Flight Drone SkyShow over Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin on Australia Day we received a few questions about the lights we use on our personal bicycles.

There are four things we consider when selecting front and rear lights for our personal bicycles:

how well they increase the likelihood we will be seen during the day,
how well they increase the likelihood we will be seen at night,
how well they will enable us to see when it gets dark, and,
how long we can use them at maximum intensity before they need recharging.

Every couple of years we review the bicycle lights available on the Australian market to see if there are any new lighting products we should be considering. Our last review was in October, 2023.

How to calculate the steepest hill you can climb

26 October 2023

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Riding up hills is perhaps one of the most common topics we hear discussed on our cycling tours. Often the conversation is started by a guest who is riding one our hire bikes as they find the gear ratios on Mulga’s hire bike make it easier to climb up hills than their own, so they want to know more.

Important Safety Recall: Shimano 11-Speed Cranksets

26 October 2023

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Shimano has published a global product safety recall of its 11-speed bonded Hollowtech road cranksets manufactured between 1 June 2012 – 30 June 2019.

The Story Behind Our Funky Orange Workshirts

04 May 2023

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Some of you have noticed we are wearing a new style of orange high-vis workshirt when we are running our tours with the message “This Is A Conversation Starter” embroidered across our backs. We are often asked “What’s the story with your shirts?” The answer is very inspirational and best answered by the initiative's co-inventor Daniel Allen.

We’re now using what3words

24 January 2021

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One of the difficulties many of us have is how to communicate our exact location to others when we are in unfamiliar surroundings such as on regional roads or places where there is no actual street address. This is made particularly stressful if you become lost, or you come across an incident requiring the assistance of emergency services.

what3words has created an easy solution to this problem. They have divided the entire surface of the Earth into 3 metre x 3 metre squares and allocated a unique three word address, such as ///induce.transcript.fashioning, to each of these squares.