Chances are if you’re driving throughout the Nullarbor connecting Western Australia and South Australia you’ll see bicyclists making the strenuous trek on 2 wheels. Key points:Del and Cindy Henley, 81 years old, from a retirement town near Auckland, New Zealand, started long-distance biking in their 70s.They are on their 6th biking journey to Australia, trying to cycle from Perth to the Gold Coast at a rate of 50 to 60 kilometres each day.Their longest biking journey was from Cairns to Perth in 2018, a journey of more than 6,000 kmOut in the aspects on one of the most separated highways in the world, most of the bicyclists are young and inshape, making the journey for charities or the record books. For New Zealanders Del and Cindy Henley, the trek is about taking time out from their retirement town Possum Bourne at Pukekohe, south of Auckland. Both are a spritely 81 years old. The set are on their 2nd Nullarbor trip, however it’s not their longest Australian bike flight. “We took up biking when we were 70,” Mr Henley stated. Cindy and Del Henley take a break from biking along the Nullarbor, near Yalata.(ABC Eyre Peninsula: Jodie Hamilton)”We were not doing much, and it was a obstacle at our age getting on a roadway bike. “Now we’ve got the roadway bike and lycra – the lot,” Mrs Henley stated. Up for a challengeMr Henley finished his veryfirst roadway cycle as a charityevent for the regional bowls club, which took him on a 2,000 kilometre cycle to the leading of New Zealand’s North Island at Cape Reinga. “Then I idea ‘It’s completed. I marvel if there’s something else I might do?’,” Mr Henley stated. He looked throughout the Tasman Sea to the substantial area of Australia and believed the continent would be perfect for long-distance biking. Del Henley prepares to cycle the longest straight stretch of roadway in Australia.(Supplied: Del and Cindy Henley)This legendary journey from Perth in Western Australia to the Gold Coast on the eastern coast will mark the couple’s sixth Australian roadway journey, and will be a return to the Nullarbor Plain, which they crossed in their veryfirst journey in2012 “I was a bit worried in approaching Cindy about coming for a bike flight so I stated, ‘Would you like to go for a little bit of a bike flight? Across the Nullarbor Plain?’,” “And so we did that for a start and then it simply continued and we did the rest of Australia as well.” Mrs Henley stated she took up biking since she concerned about her partner’s security and desired
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