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Commute Eltham - Southbank via Yarra Trail singletrack  
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The way points of this bicycle route:

Eltham

Left into carpark

Watch for crossing cars

Left onto bike path

Single track inside the fence

Back onto bike path

Over Yarra on pedestrian bridge

Hard right onto single track at end of bridge

Back onto bike path (Yarra Trail)

Right onto single track

Beside/on bike path briefly

Right onto single track

Onto bike path

Right into picnic area

Left to single track (gap in fence)

Onto bike path

Left onto single track

Not too sure where the track is here...

Not sure where the track is here, but it's easy to follow

Templestowe

Back onto the bike path

Drop off right for single track

Single track runs just beside boardwalk, it's tight, beware steep drop into river!

Briefly on bike path

Back into the bushes

onto bike path

Hard left along fenceline onto singletrack

exact path can't be seen, but is easy to follow

Onto bike path

left onto single track

If you'd continued on the bike path and gone left a bit later you'd meet the single track here, or in another few hundre metres

Back onto bike path

Heidleberg

Past the garden centre

left onto single track

Eaglemont

lots of track to choose from

onto bike path

Optional single track loop on the left

left onto single track

onto bike path

ivanhoe east

left over pedestrian bridge

single track on right

onto bike path

pass bike under the logs and ride parallel single track between the bike path and golf course fence

back onto bike path - watch for fast oncoming bikes tearing down the hill!

kew east

single track on left

bike path, briefly

single track on left

cross the bike path

bike path

walk up stairs

Kew

Can turn right down bike path to Fairfield boat house, and follow path down Merry Ck rather than ride the Boulevard road.

Abbotsford

CUB brewery on right over the river - smell that beer...

Duck off right down bike path

Over foot bridge

Down onto riverside bike path

Either ride the path or road

Richmond

Onto bike path

bike path runs under freeway

Hang a left over the bridge for Southbank, straight ahead for CBD

South Yarra

Up ramp

Follow road

Southbank

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Takes in most of the single track between Eltham and Kew along the Yarra Trail. Few technical sections & very flat. Skipping the singletrack and staying on the Yarra Trail makes it a bit longer, but can be ridden on a hybrid or roadie (there is ~15km of gravel though).

Tagged with: Commute, Recreational, Training, MTB, Offroad, Scenic

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