Welcome to the Launceston Gravel Grinders
This group is being setup to organise friendly group rides on nice quiet roads around Launceston and Northern Tasmania. It borrows heavily from the recent legacy of the Melbourne Gravel Grinders, the enduring legacy of groups like the Rough Stuff Fellowship (see here for further inspiration), and French and Japanese randonnuering/cyclotouring adventures. It has similarities to Audax, but the rides are shorter, more focussed to dirt roads, and there's no time limit. These rides are not races. They're just about finding nice roads and trails and riding on them with friends. The hope is to create a friendly, supportive, inclusive community of people who just like to get out there and share an adventure.
Please see the FAQ to get more of an idea of what it's all about.
The first ride is scheduled for Sunday October 27th. The route has been mapped out and a cue sheet is nearly completed. It looks like an amazing but quite challenging ride that flows together well. More will be posted about it later. Hopefully plenty more rides will be developed, creating a nice catalogue of backroad adventures to ride any time you like.
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