The Sydney Jigsaw map is getting really big with over 800km of combined loops. Certainly has been interesting riding and building it and still lots to do. One area that is complete and that is the Sydney Eastern suburbs. Here I have completed 4 different loops and as its the Eastern Suburbs where there isn’t […]
The Eastern suburbs of Sydney offers many cycling opportunities and attracts a lot of cyclists. Riding around and staying away from cars is difficult, hopefully this page will help you out. The easier way is just to ride early Saturday or Sunday morning before everyone heads out for morning coffee. Click here to see La […]
A common theme amongst Sydney cyclists is that the cycle paths are terrible. Well that is certainly true in middle suburbs like Punchbowl and Greenacre and much of the North Shore but its not the case as you head into the newer suburbs in the far west. Great small examples out west are Potts Hill […]
There is lots to ride in the Lane Cove area and the best is Lane Cove National Park which consists of very quiet roads and lots of bush. There are two good trails for commuting/scenery, the 17km long Epping Rd Cycleway and the shorter Shrimptons Creek cycleway to Ryde. But if you really want to […]
Here is a map called a heat map of everything I have ridden and recorded in PUBLIC or friends mode in Strava https://www.strava.com/athletes/me Here is the Strava view of where sydney cyclists who use Strava go >> I like the Red mode with cycling only turned on. See the Legend in the map.
This page covers the M7 cycleway, North and South. Liverpool Railtrail and Prospect Reservoir M7 Cycleway – South Imagine a world where bikes had their own roads and cars didn’t exist. Well this is the M7 cycleway on the edge of the M7 freeway in western Sydney. I travelled about half of the freeway this […]
The new world of Covid-19 is a massive one two punch to many things the giant City of Sydney held dear. Huge numbers of people are unemployed (25% including Job Keepers). We have no tourists, no cruise ships, no flying machines, no sitting at cafes and no sport to watch. I wont go on. Here […]
The Parramatta area is crisscrossed by great trails starting with the Parramatta Park to Meadowbank path. From this path you have two bridge options to Olympic Park and Rhodes. Further towards the city is the Putney ferry trail and the convuluted Olympic Park to Cooks River Cycleway. Other options include the dull M4 Cycleway and […]
Adelaide is a city contained within a wonderful collection of parks and even a pretty interesting cemetery. To fully appreciate this, why not ride around the Parklands Trail. This a really nice wide shared path that winds its way from park to park. On the way you will pass some great old houses and traverse […]
When I first started thinking about Sydney trails, my head was filled with thoughts of steep hills, cars and faded white pictures of bikes on green patches on the road. After a much exploring, I can now reveal that Sydney has some very good places to ride if you have the motivation to going exploring. […]
One of Sydney’s great rides is the Prospect Reservoir ride that starts at Guildford and ends at Canley Vale (with and optional ride back to Guildford). It clocks in around the 30km mark. If you want to do something different, try turning right a kilometre after the Boothtown Aquaduct and heading into Pemulwuy. The cycleways […]
I enjoy the ride from East Hills to Canley Vale and Carramar. The trail is mostly bitumen and quite smooth. So one day I headed up this trail from Revesby then diverted around to Bankstown and back to Salt Pan Creek. There are some roads in the section running from Georges River to Bankstown but […]
I have ridden the coast of Wollongong from Thirroul to Kiama all on decent cycleways. I have also ridden the north and south end of Lake Illawarra and loved it. But I have never done the loop and that is basically because everyone seems to ride on the edge of the motorway into Dapto. I […]
If you can catch a train to Tahmoor on the train line to Bowral near Sydney, you can have a great gravity fed ride all the way to Picton on country roads. You need to travel to Campbelltown and swap trains. Check the timetable carefully. The ride starts at Tahmoor Station and heads west to […]
As my friends Howie and Gaz were both arriving from the Hume Highway, I decided day 1 of our ride down the complete length of Canberra would start in the far north. I picked a football oval with lots of parking in Casey and we headed there. It was 8:30 in the morning and I […]