The Cooks River trail is the only decent cycling shared path connection from the west of Sydney to the east (20 km). From it you can ride to Iron Cove and Newtown via Kermit’s way and there is a trail to Salt Pan Creek as well thru Earlwood. At the eastern end is the airport […]
Category: Sydney Eastern
Best New Sydney Cycle Infrastructure Awards -2020
Here are the best bicycle infrastructure improvements in 2020 across the whole of Sydney. To win, there must be an increase in the numbers of people using the path or facility, 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. […]
Botany Bay Area – south of the airport
Brighton le Sands and Botany Bay Riding from Kendrick Park in Tempe through to the Captain Cook Bridge via Brighton Le Sands is 15km and its dead flat. Except for sunny weekends when there are people to dodge, its a super trail. You probably will not stop at Brighton le Sands, you will likely continue […]
Sydney East Jigsaw Pieces
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 […]
Eastern Suburbs of Sydney
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 […]
The Greater Sydney Bike Trail
After listening to some inspiring ladies at the Bike-packing talk night at Omafiets in Redfern and then heading to The Big Bike Film Night at the Randwick Ritz, I realised it was time to complete a challenge of my own. A thought bubble came to me, why not ride around Sydney. Hopefully this page will […]
Waverley to Watsons Bay
Lots of cyclists ride in the areas around Watsons Bay, Dover Heights and Vaucluse and why not, the sights up the bay and down the cliffs are fantastic. But its all roads and there are people driving around. To minimise your risk you can ride on a Sunday morning and you can take it easy. […]
Woronora Area
The big shared path ride in the Woronora area is Sutherland to Riverwood thru Menai (20km one way). There is also a detour in Menai to Barden Ridge. The other great riding spot is Como bridge to Oatley Park. From Sutherland you can also make your way to Loftus or the Captain Cooks bridge on […]
The worlds biggest puzzle
One thing that I have noticed when riding around Sydney is that people love walking and running loops. There are the hugely popular Iron Cove 7km, Nepean River 8km and good old Centennial Park 4km tracks and then lots of smaller loops around football parks and small council parks. I even saw a group of […]
Use It or Loose It
All around the world, the corona virus is having its evil way. Solutions everywhere are different, lockups, plead with the people, economy first and prioritize the health system. Amongst all that chaos and the huge burden on health care workers, cycling has stood out as a way to stay away from The Spray of others […]
Ride every track in your park
Want to try something different, ride every path in your nearest bicycle park. The rules are simple, follow the road rules or path rules, if its one way, you have to go that way. The challenge is to do it in the least distance and not the least time. Best if you don’t study the […]
Riding the Wilson St Loop in inner Sydney – Video
You can ride your bike fast, you can commute or you can just explore. Lets explore one of the great inner city areas of Sydney on a trail that I call the Wilson St Loop. The ride starts at Redfern station, heads around towards Sydney university on the very popular Wilson St cycleway down towards […]
An Empty Darling Harbour and a Quiet Opera House
Under Australian lock-down laws, you are allowed out for exercise and you are allowed to travel to work. So I took my son to work in the city for his first day at an exercise physio clinic. And then I found a great car park in Pyrmont (it was early) and went to check out […]
Darling Harbour to Wolli Creek
Darling Harbour is a treat for the visitors, Glebe is close by, there is Sydney Park which is a great place for the kids and the complicated trails to Wolli Creek on the Cooks River Cycleway Read on, this area has many paths including The Goods Line, Erskinville and Wooloomooloo. Darling Harbour If you can […]
Cycling from Rushcutters Bay to Darling Harbour
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 […]