Welcome from Far North Queensland Gino.
We get some cold temps here as well during winter.. it recently got down to 15 degrees celsius.. bwhahahahahahaha

. We do get a lot of rain particularly in summer.
Some mates and I are planning to ride across Canada in 2015 (subject to finances), we are planning on hiring bikes in Seattle and head up to Canada where we would like to spend about 5 weeks travelling from BC to Quebec before dropping the bikes back in Boston. Hopefully this ride will happen but if it doesn't plan B is to ride around Australia.
Take care and enjoy the forum.