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WMargaret River  Wardandi Country
e have breakfast at Melo Velo, a cool little Western Australia. about trail conditions, and anything else you’d bike shop and cafe, set up in an old house Driving through Margaret River you know you’re expect from a fully functioning bike shop. Given on the main street of Nannup, before not in Nannup anymore. The main street is busy. that it is still raining, we drive to the Wooditjup
making the short drive across to Margaret River. The sub hour drive, although rainy, is uneventful and I spend most of the time hoping for finer weather when we get there.
Margaret River is probably most well-known
to most Australians for its surf and wines. For Australian mountain bikers, thanks predominantly to the popularity of the Cape to Cape, we know there is more than that to do in the surrounds
of this bustling coastal town in the southwest of
Cars with bikes and or boards abound. An RV is parked out the front of the tourist centre, and the traffic going the other way is at a standstill as a grey nomad’s four-wheel drive towing a caravan slowly turns down a side street. It’s school holidays and the town is pumping!
We regroup right on the outskirts of Margaret River at The Hairy Marron. Here, in a shady spot on the banks of Margaret River, you can grab a coffee and some food, hire a bike, get local info
trails rather than ride out. There is a multi-use trail that snakes its way along as well, which as an ideal way to cruise to the the mountain bike trails where we are heading. I sneak glances over to the trail as I drive, hoping to catch a glimpse of the trail and maybe a rider on it.
WHERE IS WOODITJUP?
Wooditjup Trails? I hear you say. Built under the
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