Cycle Adventures with Serafina & Gus
Adventure tourism television series
Broadcast in Australia and New Zealand and streaming globally on CTV+
Join Serafina and Gus as they explore destinations, local people, cycling communities and bakeries.
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Stories, photos & adventures
GET IN TOUCH
Media, partnerships and general enquiries
FOLLOW OUR RIDES
Explore our rides and routes on Strava.
OUR FAVOURITE PASTIE STOPS
Pasties we’ve ridden for, travelled for and would happily go back for.
Home of the traditional Cornish Tiddy Oggy. Chris is the third generation of his family at the bakery, and we always love stopping in for a pastie and a catch-up. We’ve filmed behind the scenes as he makes the Tiddy Oggys, and once rode nearly 200km from Adelaide for one! Whether we’re cycling or driving through, it’s a favourite stop.
Our original Cycle Adventures pastie stop and where Serafina’s pastie obsession began! We’ve ridden down to McLaren Vale more times than we can count, sometimes simply because a pastie craving needed satisfying! Right by the bike path, it’s a welcoming stop for cyclists, with water bottle top-ups, toilets and great pasties. We’ve filmed here, brought group rides along for pastie pilgrimages, and always love coming back.
ABOUT SERAFINA
Serafina is the founder, producer and host of Cycle Adventures with Serafina & Gus.She legally changed her name to simply Serafina — a single name, with no surname, chosen as part of claiming her identity and defining her life on her own terms.Born in New Zealand and now based in South Australia, her life has taken her from growing up in a religious cult, to travelling the world, living through the Christchurch earthquakes and eventually building an independent television series from the ground up.Her story has been featured by IF Magazine, InDaily and on ABC Conversations with Sarah Kanowski. Today, her work spans television, cycling, adventure and writing, and she is currently working on her memoir.
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ABOUT GUS
Gus is the co-host of Cycle Adventures with Serafina & Gus, bringing humour, curiosity, competitiveness and a genuine love of cycling to the series. He loves a fast group ride and a chance to test himself, but he’s just as happy exploring a back road, finding somewhere new or mucking around along the way.He plans every cycling route for the show, and he loves doing it. He’ll pore over maps, research local history and find interesting places to explore, piecing it all together into an adventure. When a closed road means changing plans halfway through a ride, he’s the one figuring out another way.In late 2022, weighing around 130kg and low in confidence, Gus quietly decided to change the direction of his life. He went on to lose around 60kg, but the bigger change was in how he began to see himself.As cycling became a bigger part of his life, short rides grew into longer adventures, climbs through the Adelaide Hills and eventually a 215km ride from Adelaide to Port Elliot and back. He taught himself along the way, through videos, research and giving things a go. He didn’t wait until he felt confident — he did things first, and the confidence came afterwards.Some of those videos were Serafina’s. A chance meeting while riding Norton Summit led to an episode about his story, then more rides together, filming together and eventually Gus becoming the other half of Cycle Adventures. The viewer had become someone helping create the adventures himself.Today, cycling means freedom, community and the chance to see what’s around the next corner. Gus wants to explore new places, make great episodes and have fun on his bike. His philosophy is simple: don’t decide in advance what you’re capable of. Give yourself the chance to find out.
TELEVISION & MEDIA
Interviews, features and screen credits
Places We’ve Stayed
A collection of places we’ve stayed that have featured in Cycle Adventures — places we’ve enjoyed, that worked well for us as cyclists, and that we’d happily recommend.