Good rides around Canberra
From the aus.motorcycles FAQ:
Where should I ride in the Australian Capital Territory?
The Uriarra/Cotter loop is a fantastic stretch of road, with wide variations in road 'style' and landscape type. Start on the Cotter road, turn off at Coppins Crossing, then head onto Uriarra road. Follow Uriarra until the Turn-off back to canberra, and it will take you back onto the Cotter road just before Cotter Pub. Continue along Cotter road to Tuggeranong, and return to canberra along any viable route.
You can continue from the Cotter Pub south down past Murray's Corner and Tidbinbilla to Tharwa and back up the Monaro Hwy. The bit through the pine forest past Murray's Corner is a bit prone to slow/unpredicatble traffic and gravel on the road but once it opens up, its quite good, and makes the ride about twice as long.
A quick fang up Coppins Crossing is always fun.
Heading down the coast via the Clyde mountains is an interesting ride with lots of twisties in the later sections, and the ride up the coast from Batemans bay to Sydney (through the national park south of sydney) is a great alternative to the highway (if you have a few extra hours to spare)
The road down Brown Mtn (between Cooma and the coast) is a vastly better road than Clyde Mtn. Every time I went down Clyde Mtn (admittedly a long time ago), the road surface was shocking. Of course, both Brown Mtn and Clyde Mtn are in NSW, not ACT.
I'd like to get photos to do an illustrated version sometime.
posted Tue 9 Sep 2003 in /motorbikes | link
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