Cycling life begins at 70 and a decade on couple still riding high | ABC Australia

Del and Cindy Henley are not your average long-distance cyclists. They’re both 81 years of age and only took up long distance cycling in their 70s because they were bored in their retirement village.

They outgrew the cycling routes in their home country New Zealand and have clocked up five long road milestones in Australia – the longest route over 6000 kilometres from Cairns to Perth.

Now over 80 years of age, they are taking on Australia’s iconic Nullarbor, again, as part of a mission to cycle from Perth to the Gold Coast.

Almost halfway, they’ve enjoyed the cycling but it’s been tough with headwinds hampering progress across the long straight stretches of the Nullarbor Plain.

They’ve also done it tough – a resurgence in holiday road travel after two years of COVID border lockdowns means there’s been no accommodation at the roadhouses along the way.

But they’ve seen a silver lining – the view from their tent of glorious stars across the Great Australian Bight.

Produced by Jodie Hamilton, ABC Eyre Peninsula.

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