Beat the Bus no 7 came about as I was investigating the trails through Lane Cove National Park near my accountant in Epping. Something interesting had to come out of a trip to the accountant, so as I bounced and slid through the fire trails in Lane Cove, I came across a really solid concrete […]
For Beat the Bus no 6, I thought I would include an interesting not so obvious 20 minute ride starting behind Wolli Station in Earlwood. I have always looked at the wild forests where the M5 Motorway goes underground at Bexley North in Sydney’s south as a place that we really should have built a […]
For Beat the Bus no 5, Nick Carreiro from the Sydney Commuters FaceBook group said “I generally do Alexandria to the Darling Quarter in 15-20min by bike and it takes 30min+ for train or bus in peak hour.” Back to me, I needed an easy ride after a few weeks of feeling poorly, this was […]
There is a terrific 35km of cycling in the Gosford area. It is easy to get to by train from the north shore of Sydney and the line that runs through Epping Station. Head to the Woy Woy train station. Once you arrive, if you just want 10 km of cycling, make your way north […]
In Beat the Bus no 4, I was excited to check out using the M7 Cycleway to get to work. It just so happened my son was meeting a manager at a giant warehouse in an industrial estate called Oakdale, so we began investigating ways he could commute by public transport. The nearest station was […]
For Beat the Bus no 3, I was inspired by Karen O’Brien who said in Sydney Commuters “Glebe to Martin place. Bus in peak hour 45 min. Riding 20 min” That’s enough of a win to get the re-elected Jamie Parker and Jenny Leong, Greens members for Balmain and Newtown back on their bikes riding […]
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 […]