Beautiful Gravel Cycling in this part of Australia

Springton, South Australia:
“Springton is a settlement in South Australia. It draws its name from Springs Dairy which was on the site before the town subdivision was surveyed. There is a large hollow red gum tree on the outskirts of the town. This tree was used as the first home in South Australia of Friedrich Herbig when he migrated from Germany in 1855. He married three years later and his first two children were born in the tree before he built a hut nearby in 1860. The tree is known as the Herbig Family Tree” – Wikipedia.org

Sedan, South Australia:
“Sedan is a rural town in South Australia. It is located about 100 kilometres east of Adelaide and about 20 kilometres west of the Murray River. It is located on the dry eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Surrounded by dry-stone walls built by early settlers, the historic town of Sedan is home to many 19th century buildings that are in excellent condition.”

Keyneton, South Australia:
“Keyneton is a locality in South Australia. The town is in the Mid Murray Council local government area, 82 kilometres (51 mi) north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. The town was named after English pastoralist Joseph Keynes (related to the Keynes Family), who had settled the area in 1842 and whose descendants still live and farm in the area. It is in the Eden Valley wine region.”

In this video, JOM and his partner, Lady Gravel Cyclist, conduct an enjoyable ride that explores the range hills near Springton, and into the flat lands around the town of Sedan, South Australia. Later, the tough pipleline climb is tackled before returning to Springton.

South Australian Towns visited along the Route:
Springton
Sedan
Keyneton

Reminder:
ALWAYS BE A STEWARD FOR GRAVEL CYCLING: Respect the roads, respect the locals, respect the land, respect your fellow cyclists.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 A look around Springton, South Australia
1:36 First Gravel Road of Many!
2:53 Wild Kangaroos
3:28 Sounds of the Australian Bushland
7:21 Welcome to Sedan, South Australia
8:21 Departing Sedan
9:42 The Climbing gets Spicy
11:46 Welcome to Keyneton, South Australia
12:22 Vineyards and Gravel Roads
12:54 Australian Galahs
13:59 Closing
14:28 General Madness!

Links of Interest:
How to Create Amazing & Fun Gravel Routes! – https://youtu.be/uMG4rYD4O2Y

North Florida Freeride Gravel Series – https://www.facebook.com/norflafreeridegravelseries

Gravel Cyclist’s Route Library – https://www.gravelcyclist.com/gravel-cycling-routes/

Gravel Bike Tire / Tyre Pressure Guidelines – https://www.gravelcyclist.com/bicycle-tech/gravel-bike-tyre-tire-pressure-guidelines-by-enve-composites/

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Good day train cers coming to you today from springton South Australia out the front of the springton hotel founded 1865 joining me is LGC herself we’re going to knock out about 90 km of very sweet r Ral riding lot of gravel roads I’ve ridden this course it’s a course of

My design we’ll have a stroll through town also like to give a quick plug to my brand new kit sponsor for 2024 castelli cycling kitting out myself and LGC these are two of nine designs we have coming all right let’s get cracking springton General Store is also the post

Office petrol station and a lot more and there we go there a 994 Mustang GT rag top rolling away from springton and we’re about leave town and onto the very first gravel roide which is on the edge of town those measurements are in metric Australia is all metric including the driving distances kilometers

Etc huge herd of kangaroos over there oh there’s about 20 of them they are hauling ass The Australian Gala it’s rather dry in this neck of the woods today they had a lot of rain in this area until about 3 weeks ago still a decent amount of greenery but the field as you can see pretty dry looking the amount of stones and hard yaker that

Went into making this thing kind of blows my mind I wonder how old that fence is it’s obviously been maintained over the years hi Mama well uh LGC you can now say you have really been up close in personal with a kangaroo so there is the little range we rode

Across and we’ll be going back over there a little bit later in today’s ride welcome to San South Australia quick stop at the local IGA IG how are you right the sedan Hotel got about 54k still to ride had a late start today it’s about 4:00 in the afternoon thankfully it’s not too

Hot there’s the road sign Angus nupa and Adelaide being 108 K away farewell from sedan dry stone wall country I I learned something new today about that classic Aussie scrub land dry ass at this very moment what goes up and over the range and into the Flatlands must on the

Return leg go up and over 14% lovely a wee bit windy as you can see by the wind sock this clim gets really spicy just ahead 16% not a lot of traction here beautiful view after a rather tough little climb this climb is a bugger it’s multi

Step and steps one two a very very steep as you see you’re loving this clim aren’t you LGC what one word can sum up the experience so ascending it’s about that view there trans Setters big ass tanks valley below worth the effort private property next 2ks now this is all legal no dodgy

Stuff the final notated climb of today hopefully there’s likely going to be climbs not in garmin’s little head unit here welcome to Kon South Australia rolling through Kon into an absolute MF of a headwind not too much here in Kon we’re going to keep riding on Mr Jack Russell back on the

Gravel just over 8ks remaining or 5 miles pleas don’t walk amongst our Vines don’t forget that very close to the end of today’s ride and fantastic Road although that Bloody headwind persists but it is what it is really isn’t it less than 1 km remaining on this wind

Swept Road and hey yeah we got a nice steep little Burg here beautiful grasslands some areas of the world say they had the best gravel well anybody says that good day trend setters we’ll see you I’ll see you okay LGC in the next Video