Touring is usually popular on the Sydney Cycling Club annual calendar and the rides and en route antics enter the club's oral folklore. Accommodation costs are modest and we ride at a touring pace. Tour dates and routes vary a little from year to year. A brief summary is as follows:

Snowy Mountains - around about March. Ever-popular with climbers and masochists. Drive down Friday night. Saturday is undulating country and plenty of hills. People talk up a big night then fall asleep in their soup. Sunday - pretty much straight uphill - usually up to Thredbo and Charlotte Pass. Great accommodation/catering in Bruce and Elaine Vote's Jindabyne lodge.

Kangaroo Valley – Probably the best-loved of them all. Drive down Friday evening and usually stay in the cabins at the Tourist Park. Saturday’s ride from 100km to 170km. Ride up to Fitzroy Falls then Glenquarry, Kangaloon & Robertson for morning tea at the ‘Pig and Whistle Café’. Back to Fitzroy falls via Pearsons Lane & Myra Vale Rd, then towards Moss Vale & Bundanoon for lunch at the ‘Bicycle Shoppe Café’. Then back to Fitzroy Falls & back down the twisty descend into Kangaroo Valley. On Sunday we ride out along the Kangaroo Valley River Road for a warm up, return, then climb out of the valley towards Berry but take the turn-off and head to the Cambewarra Lookout to have coffee. Then it’s a short 12km descend back to the valley. Picnic lunch in the Tourist Park before heading home back to Sydney.

Hunter Valley – The wine-buff's tour and usually the best meals. The Tour Secretary dreams up interesting routes to suit all each year.

Other possible tour weekends are at Orange, Canberra, Mudgee…….

Day Tours. Other day tours are organised as the year rolls out, usually on public holidays and to parts north, far-flung or just interesting to vary the routine. Akuna Bay is one destination, Wollongong return or the Patonga loop another as is Gosford via the northern beaches and ferry crossing. Sometimes drive down to Kiama & ride up Macquarie Pass and down Jamberoo. Or ride to Bowral from Sydney and catch the train back. Watch the newsletter for more information.