Kojan

Moora to New Norcia day 5, Friday 2 November 1990. The morning was fine and cool with a light southerly. I left Moora at 8:11. I had decided to go to New Norcia the short way, through Koojan and Gillingarra rather than through Walebing. This meant that I would be going due south early, while the wind was light, then as the wind freshened from the SW later on I would be riding eastward with it. Going through Walebing I would be riding straight into the wind for the last part of the ride. The short way was 3km shorter and included about 13km of unsealed surface.

As expected the Midlands Road was flat and straight, running as it did close beside the railway line.  ... Read more