We often get asked about riding Bromptons in Japan. We always recommend riding the Shimanami Kaido. We’ve ridden it three times.
Recently Brompton Junction Melbourne organised a tour to Japan for the Shimanami Kaido. They wrote an excellent tour report. It is available from the Brompton Junction Melbourne website.
We’ve shared our posts about riding the Shimanami Kaido, Tobishima Kaido and Hiroshima below.
The Suburban Brew in Glynde doesn’t have a permanent kitchen. Instead it has a roster of food trucks.
They’ve announced the line up for July.
The food truck for our ride on Sunday July 20 is a South American asado – BBQ at Yours! I love South America BBQ. For those looking for non meat dish it looks like they have a good looking vegetable grill.
I am bringing the August Adelaide Bromptoneering Social Ride forward by one week from Sunday 31 August to Sunday 24 August.
The reason for this change, is that, I will be riding the Port Fairy Rail trail with the Melbourne Brompton Club. If you’d like to join us you can get details from the Melbourne Brompton Club. They also have a Facebook Group.
Hope to see you on the 24th of August and maybe the 30th and 31st!?
| Time | 11:00am Sunday 20 July 2025 |
| Location | The Suburban Brew @ Glynde 26-30 Provident Avenue, Glynde, SA 5070 |
| Route | 20km circular route, exploring the inner eastern and north eastern suburbs Strava route GPX File (direct file no Strava account required) |
| Coffee Stop | Marbella Cafe Locale |
| Register | Let us know you are coming… |
Here is the revised schedule for Adelaide Bromptoneering Rides for the second half of 2025. Note the new date for the November ride.
11:00am
The Suburan Brew, Glynde
11:00am
Crafty Robot Brewing
Adventure ride
11:00am
Prancing Pony, Totness
11:00am
Silver Brewing Co, Adelaide
Christmas Ride and Lunch
The Brickmakers Arms
36 Chief Street, Brompton
This blog started more than twenty years ago with our 2004 trip to the United Stated and Canada. This holiday was a turning point in our lives – we came back knowing that we needed to get fitter. It was, in some ways, the true genesis of our riding life and ultimately our life and travels with Brompton Bikes.
As I looked back over our first blog, I recall what it was like trying to blog without an iPhone. We had to rush into local internet hotspots in libraries and such. The big issue was whether we could even get the photos off our camera to upload. There were plenty of promises to upload photos later. 20 years later, I have now uploaded the missing photos and corrected some spelling mistakes! If you are interested, you can revisit our 2004 holiday. See our 33-year-old selves by following this link > https://bromptoneering.blog/category/bromptoneering-or-bust/2004-usa/?order=asc
Since the first post about our itinerary in 2004, we posted 979 other posts (including this one) from all over the world. Our first trip had a total of 54 posts.
In 2025 and beyond we will continue with our travel blogging. We are, however, going to add some posts about riding in Adelaide both with and without Brompton Bikes. So if you have already subscribed to this blog you will receive all of the posts. If you would like to change that, visit the blog site. You can select the sort of posts you want to get.
| Time | 11:00am Sunday 8 June 2025 Add all rides to your calendar |
| Location | Big Shed Brewing [now permanently closes] 1154 Old Port Rd, Royal Park SA 5014 An alternative to the now close Big Shed Brewing could be The Woodshed. |
| Route | 20.1 Km, Alberton, Rosewater, Port Adelaide, Ethelton, Semaphore, West Lakes Strava Route GPX Route |
| Coffee Stop | Any Given Sunday 32 Stroud St S, Cheltenham SA 5014 |
| Time | 11:00am Sunday 4 May 2025 Add all rides to your calendar |
| Location | Mad Monkey Distillery 6 La Salle St, Dudley Park SA 5008 |
| Route | 26km, Regency Park, Mawson Lakes, Pooraka, Enfield, Blair Athol, Dudley Park Strava Route GPX Route |
| Coffee Stop | Watershed 665 Salisbury Hwy, Mawson Lakes SA 5095 |
| Time | 11:00am Saturday 17 May 2025 Add all rides to your calendar |
| Location | Adelaide Festival Centre |
| Route | 18.0 km, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Ovingham, Dudley Park, Croydon Park, Croydon, Bowden Strava Route GPX Route |
| Lunch Stop | Coopers Brewery 230 Regency Rd, Regency Park SA 5010 |
| Time | 7:00pm Saturday 22 March 2025 Add all rides to your calendar |
| Location | Lady Burra Brewhouse 4 Topham Mall, Adelaide SA 5000 |
| Route | 21km, Adelaide, Underdale, Brooklyn Park, Netley, Ashford, Keswick Strava Route GPX Route |
| Coffee Stop | Ampol, West Richmond 130-132 Marion Rd, West Richmond SA 5033 |
| Register | Please let us know you are coming… |
