With some decent work being undertaken on the Pittwater Rd shared path in the Lane Cove region, this gives me a chance to show some of my favourite photos that I took riding the very hilly Huntleys Cove to North Ryde “about to get better” bike trail. First up here is what is going on […]
If you keep your bicycle in your car, drive half the way to work and ride the rest, you have made your car 50% more fuel efficient. If you ride your electric bicycle to work, you have made your car 💯 percent more fuel efficient. I know lots of good car parks where I can […]
This very scenic video shows the early weekend ride from Rushcutters Bay to Darling Harbour using the Cahill Expressway shared path. The views from the shared path above Circular Quay are really good and you are a long ways a way from the crowds. Unfortunately you soon will come across a few runners and not […]
Addendum With the Coronavirus taking off, you may find public transport really miserable with everyone wearing face masks. Start looking at eBikes now in case they all get bought out. The petrol story sort of fizzled out but here it is anyway. The Petrol Story Last week we were lucky we avoided war in the […]
You will no doubt have heard about the Australian fires. We live in a land of eucalyptus trees which unfortunately burn like like crazy in dry times. We are enduring the driest of dry times. If you live overseas, don’t be disheartened, our country is still in business so book a holiday to our fair […]
In Australia they encourage you to take public transport to your night out and drinkies. The other plan is as follows Drive to your destination but leave your bike at home Taxi or public transport home Wake up in the morning with an alarm that says pickup up car. Ride back to the car, load […]
A few articles I came across in December that you may have missed on my Facebook pages. Help our cities before its too late (a good video) https://www.brompton.com/campaign-for-movement/ One of our inland cities, Wagga Wagga was included in the list of the best 10 beaches in Australia. It also happens to have a few bike […]
I did something unique to the Brompton folding bike a few days back, I caught a bus. The bus was the 303 that runs from southern Redfern to Botany and then through the airport tunnel and onto Kyeemegah. This saves 5 km of bike trail riding around the airport. The serious cyclists go through the […]
From Andrew Cole – Really Fat Tire MTB Lover I was thankful to be invited on a Brad Cook ride into Goodnight Scrub today and despite the heat, we found some unique landscapes. Most of this country has been underwater but the release of water from Paradise Dam has exposed old waterways and ghost forests […]
After countless years of waiting for the tram to the city from Randwick to open, it’s finally here. So I set off on the shared paths from NSW University to ride to Circular Quay where the tram ends. On the cycle ride I skipped the tram crossings near the end of Kensington Ponds on the bike […]
It is the summer holidays in Sydney and you just want to get out of town and go for a relaxing bike ride on some shared paths and then chill out. So where do you go ? There are three main areas that I like within 2-3 hours and these are Wollongong, the Central Coast […]
Here are the best 3 bicycle infrastructure improvements in 2019 across the whole of Sydney. To win, there must be an increase in the numbers of people using the path, the path has to pretty safe, good looking and fun to ride. It doesn’t have to be long if it connects existing trails better. 1st […]
I have just finished a normal holiday tour of Vietnam and loved it. I wrote a little about my thoughts on cycling in Vietnam here. I did observe that it would be good to join a group becuase of the difficulties of moving around safely near the normal tourists haunts. Little did I know that […]
When it comes to Cycling in Vietnam, I know very little and that is likely the position you will be in when you come to Vietnam. So here are the main facts. Everyone in Vietnam rides a motor scooter all the time, sure there are a few people who ride bicycles and a few cars […]
Around the new metro stations of Hills Showground, Norwest, Bella Vista and Rouse Hill are some good cycling trails. The first follows the new cyclepath that follows the train line from Bella Vista to Schofields Station on the Richmond line. This trail can be combined with the paths through Crestwood, the M7 Cycleway and even […]