Ben Fallon, Bicycle advocate on bikepacking 1000s of KMs with young children and fat bike racing and adventuring across the Simpson Desert

Episode 52!

Today's conversation is with the super inspiring, Meanjin, Brisbane based bicycling advocate, Ben Fallon.

Ben shares with us how his love for riding bikes has been so pivotal in his life, including:

• Adventuring with his two young children, taking them bikepacking from the ages of 2 and 4
• Family bikepacking 1000km routes across Tasmania and in New Zealand and tips on choosing gear for bikepacking with children
• Fat biking across the Simpson Desert on an adventure, following in the footsteps of Australian explorer, Cecil Madigan
• Stage Racing the Simpson Desert Bike Challenge several times
• His upcoming European adventure, riding 5000+KM from Norway to Spain along EuroVelo 3

If you're looking for tips on bikepacking with young children, or on riding across the Simpson Desert, or the multitude of other topics we touched on, Ben can be found on Instagram at @benny_pacer

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