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. […]
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A Greener Canberra is A-Calling
In August 2017, we headed to our capital city Canberra which is located 4 hours from Sydney. The cycling was good but it was really dry and brown. Fast forward to this December and Canberra is now very green and the bike trails are even more pleasant to ride. So as it is taking me […]
Belconnen and Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra is a great 8km ride which would be fantastic for the kids or just for a run or walk. Shared path all the way. If you want to go further head to Lake Burley Griffin to the south along the Centenary Trail or up Ginninderra Creek to the north. Easy riding in general […]
Canberra and Lake Burley Griffin
In early July we arranged with some Canberrian friends to meet them in Canberra. I was really looking forward to riding around as I had done the central section of the Lake many moons ago. On Saturday I saw the weather, it was -9 degrees Celsius over night in Canberra. When the time came to […]