In Beat the Bus no 2, I was inspired by Briony Stevenson who said in Sydney Commuters “Yep my trip Marrickville to Randwick takes about 30-35 mins on the bike, about an hour on the train and bus!” Given that I live near Randwick, I decided to be impartial and came up with the Town […]
I am going to write a series of articles called Beat the Bus. The purpose of these articles is to come up with popular rides where you can easily beat public transport whilst not riding too fast. To qualify, a ride needs to be going to a place where a lot of people travel to, […]
Before BikeTrail.Blog, your editor sat in a different style of chair programming Microsoft Access databases. As I ran my own consulting business, I found myself writing articles for a very popular Microsoft Access programming magazine called Smart Access. My first article in 1998 was about a data mining tool that I had written called Graf-FX. […]
Riding around Milsons Point in Sydney is an absolute treat, if you stick around Luna Park everyone can do it. I imagine most people that ride in this area will head up to MIlsons Point station, push your bike up the silly stairs and ride over the bridge. And why not… So I keep my […]
I have ridden through the Greenwich area on Sydney’s north shore a few times and everytime I seem to take a different route. As a result, my maps are a little jumbled. But the area is so nice, it was time to make a decision on the good bits. I have decided the one way […]
There is more to Tempe than Ikea, there is the Airport trail, an important connection from Mascot to Tempe and Wolli Creek. Photos shown are on the airport side of the Princess Highway. Read about the bike trail here (BTW: It may be closed as per this link) See the Airport Drive path on a […]
As I ride I occasionally see interesting cars and other man made machines that compare well against the bike of the day. So I stack them together and take a photo. On my journeys around Sydney and beyond I have seen a few interesting European cars, some strange devices like the massive rugby training pusher […]
A great place to ride in a circle. Better still here is a description of how you can ride around the outside of Queens park, Centenial Park and Moore park Centennial Park and Redfern
If you are going to ride around Sydney, one trail you will definitely end up on will be the Cooks River trail. The Cooks River before Sydney got big, ran from Chullora near Bankstown to Botany Bay. It used to consist of lots of marshlands and was probably a pretty good source of water to […]
If you follow the many different Facebook pages that cover cycling in Australia, a common theme is “We should be more like the Netherlands”. When you look at the videos and the photos, you see giant multi story carparks full of bikes and you read about 10,000 bikes passing a single point in a day. […]
Last year I took a ride to Dobroyd Head on the north side of Sydney Harbour. I started in Manly on the bike trail along Lauderdale Rd and turned at North Harbour Reserve to head to Dubroyd Head. I pretty well stuck to the roads that followed the coast and this was a bit hit […]
North Sydney is a suburb just north of the harbour bridge. It consists of numerous high-rise buildings, the Pacific highway and is the outlet for the Harbour Bridge and the Tunnel traffic. It was never designed for bicycles and I have ridden through it and hated it. Recently Bike North, a advocacy group published a […]
Six months ago my wife and I headed to Mt Annan and the Australian Botanical Gardens near Campbelltown. It was hot and the place was so dry, it looked like mars. We didn’t like the look of the roads as there was no verge on the narrow road and we tend to potter around. We […]
On a Sunday I decided to get out early and try the official bike roads as shown on the Randwick Council maps. My trail was to cover the paths between Centennial Park, NSW University, Heffron Park, and Kingsford. You can find the paths here in PDF format on the Council website >> or find the […]
Its soo hot – here are lots of pools by the trail photos, Here is the official story with all the links and all the maps. Click on it Pools on Bike Trails in Sydney Now I am going to the beach Garry