The Tour Down Under is the first stop in World Cycling after being granter ProTour status - the first race outside of Europe to be given this ranking.

Elite international athletes race around South Australia over a week in January in a bid to win the right to wear the Ochre Leaders Jersey.

The 2008 Tour Down Under will be held from 20-27 January.

• Route: Willunga to Willunga
• Date: 26 January 2008
• Start: 11am
• Finish: approx 2.45pm

• Willunga – Australia Day Celebrations
• Aldinga Beach, The Esplanade (SA Lotteries Sprint # 1: 58.8km)
• Willunga, Main Road (Feed Station: 81.8km)
• Aldinga Beach, The Esplanade (SA Lotteries Sprint # 2: 100.7km)
• Old Willunga Hill (King of the Mountain: 127.4km)

• Swim, play beach cricket or just relax at one of South Australia’s favourite beaches, Aldinga.
• Dine in style overlooking the sea at Port Willunga’s Star of Greece Café.
• Explore the lovely wine region and its 60 welcoming cellar doors.

• Sample exquisite confectionery at the Medlow Confectionery and FruChocs Showroom.
• Taste the fabulous range of olives and oils at McLaren Vale icon, The Olive Groves.
• Discover a brilliant blend of food, wine and art at Red Poles, which combines a gallery and licensed café

There is a bookable VIP-Package of the Tour Down Under.

Cruisy saturday afternoon ride around the vales. Mainly shady, rolling to steep hills

Willunga to McLaren Vale the loopy way

Commute to work one of the nicer ways

Silly way to get from Willunga to McLaren Vale. Guess which idiot thinks he's training for the 24hr Worlds. Single track is based off top of head, if your looking for it just ride around the bits of forest where I've got lines going through the trees and look for the skinny tyre marks..

Random trundle out to Strathalbyn and back. Probably should have taken Paris Creek Rd out of Strath, more scenic and sheltered from the wind. Turning off Peters Creek Rd onto Knotts Hill was a painful lapse of judgement.

The route using Proctor Rd and Enterprise Rd is handy for anyone riding from Adelaide to Goolwa/Victor via Willunga who doesn't want to use Victor HArbour Rd (any road people keep calling "the Freeway" is best avoided during peak times and holidays)

I've ticked paved even though there is the short gravel bit. It's a smooth piece of road, traction just takes a bit o conentration and is the ultimate "dead" surface.

Scientific study to prove that Bangor rd is twice as brutal as Old Willunga Hill Rd.

hypothesis was proved correct. Gradient at the botom and dead as nails road surface gives Bangor the edge over Willunga in the nasty hill stakes.

Draft map only - seem ts to only be 89km, not 100km...