Bike SA Annual Tour - Day 0

Arrival in Penneshaw - 19th October 2013

6:30am wake up, with an expected roll out at 8:00am. Miss V and I had taken the previous day off work so our bags were already packed and waiting in the entrance way for us. So our morning consisted of a fairly relaxed breakfast, load up the car and head off for our two hour drive to Cape Jervis.

Both Miss V and I had decided on taking our Cyclocross Bikes over for this event, mounting some 35mm Continental Cyclocross Speed tyres on the wheels, figuring that combination should given us some options when it came to the sealed and unsealed road options that will be presented to us in coming days.

On arrival, we were met by our riding buddies Brett and Karen, and an army of flies. Unfortunately, the flies were to be what characterised our day. Checked in, bikes and luggage loaded, we just had to wait for the Sealink ferry to take us to Penneshaw.

A fairly uneventful trip across backstairs passage and we were landed in Penneshaw. A short walk up the hill and we had arrived at our camp ground for the night, located on the oval of the Dudley football club.

View from the Deck of Dudley Wines

While having our lunch in the main hall we were told of a local winery not too far away. With that it was decided to make the trek out to Dudley wines. What we hadn't counted on was a whopping great hill to get there!  With a few photo stops along the way, we arrived about 5 minutes before closing time... oops.  Even so, we tried a couple of wines each and rode off with a couple of bottles. Hopefully that made it worth their while staying open.


Coming back into Penneshaw I was reminded of how weak the brakes are on my CX bike, So I tried to wash of speed where I could, unlike speed demons Brett and Karen who bombed down the hill at breakneck speed!

Dinner for the evening was chicken soup, roast lamb and cheesecake for dessert. Not a bad way to start things!

With a bit of excitement in the air, we all headed to bed ready for the adventure to start tomorrow morning.

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