Marrickville Council wins our vote

After five years of struggle we are finally going to get the missing link for Regional route 5, connecting the beautiful Cooks River bike path with Marrickville Station and on to Camperdown. Although it seems such a wonderful idea (and frankly obvious) campaigners had to overcome a great deal of resistance from certain councillors who seem to view bicycles as some sort of Communist vehicle of choice.

Next time you go to vote in Marrickville Council area make sure you remember NOT to vote for the following three recidivist councillors, Victor Macri, Morris Hanna and Rosana Tyler. We don't want backwards looking people like that representing us.

Do vote for our excellent Mayor Jo Haylan.

Bring back the old Tour rules

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Transport

I wish my city was this civilised.

Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

The right to bike.

Saudi women are not allowed to drive but they have recently gained the right to bike in "parks and recreational areas". However, they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya. I love the poster. It shows the absurdity of the whole thing.
Free the woman!

A Dutch cycling blogger visits Sydney and shares his opinions on the state of our infrastructure.

http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/a-trip-to-sydney-australia/

Drive like an adult

Cycling in the US from a Dutch perspective

Canberra Pursuit Promo 2

Roadside refreshment

BICYCLES IN THE ANGLO-BOER WAR OF 1899-1902

Australian rifle section mounted on a couple of rather unusual bicycles. Built by the Royal Australian Cycle Corps, the ‘War Cycle' was a pair of 'tandem' bicycles outfitted with rims allowing them to be used on rail tracks. The bikes were painted a khaki colour and above a pair of two 'War Cycles' can be seen, with two 'tandems' and two single bikes bolted to one another at the axles. It was reported that these prototypes with their 8 man crews could reach speeds of up to 30 miles per hour!

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Fairfield Bike Shorts film premiere!

The Fairfield Bike Shorts community film making project has been run over the last couple of months. It's been an intensive but fun and exciting period of workshops for locals and emerging talent and we're set to launch our FOUR short films plus a behind-the-scenes documentary on the 12th October 2013. Join us for this special occasion as we take a look at what happened during the workshops, watch the films, and speak to the participants who were involved in the project.



You can join the event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/502954263123329/




Below is a list of activities currently being organised for this family-friendly event.
 PRE-SCREENING BICYCLE TOUR OF FAIRFIELD
Meet 2:15pm for 2:30pm ride
Dale Street, Fairfield Railway Station
Look for people with bicycles and fluro yellow tops
No bookings necessary. BYO bicycle & helmet.
This ride is organised by the Western Sydney Cycling Network
(If you're coming from the city, head in together with the crew from Cycle Sydney: http://www.meetup.com/cycle-sydney/events/141726692/)

BICYCLE VALET PARKING (TBC)
Opens 3:30pm-5:45pm
Ride your bicycle to the event and be confident that your bicycle is being looked after by someone while you’re watching the films and having fun
Valet bicycle parking is being provided by CAMWEST

PREMIERE FILM SCREENING
4pm-5:30pm
Powerhouse Youth Theatre
19 Harris Street, Fairfield NSW
Nibbles provided. This is a family-friendly event.
Door prizes provided by Treadlie Magazine
FREE event but bookings are essential.

To book, go to: http://fbs.eventbrite.com.au/

Fairfield Bike Shorts - promoting cycling through art, story & film

The Dutch army bicycle band

Reason #37 - Bikes don't catch on fire while you're riding along.

Call yourself a hipster?

Cyclists rescue 5 year old girl

On Thursday afternoon, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas went missing without a sound from her front yard as authorities believed she was kidnapped by a suspect who lured her with ice cream. Within the next two hours, a search party was formed by police and members of the community. Two of which, 15-year olds Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia, rode their bikes around the neighborhood to look for Jocelyn. Temar, eyes wide open, spotted Jocelyn riding in the passenger’s seat of a reddish-purple sedan with round tail lights. They followed the car for 15 minutes.

“Every time we’d go down the street, he’d turn back around,” Temar told one local news source, “then … we [would] follow him.”
The suspect couldn’t shake the high school freshmen, so at one intersection about a half mile up the road from Boggs and Garcia, the kidnapper let Jocelyn out of the car. Then, he drove off. “He stopped at the end of the hill and let her out,” Tamar recalled, “and she ran to me and said that she needed her mom.”

Boggs held the girl in his arms and walked back to the search party’s rendezvous. Garcia pedaled alongside the two while guiding Boggs’s bike with one of his hands. Tracey Clay, Jocelyn’s grandmother, called the cyclist “our hero” and that there were “just no words to say.”

The Sedentary Cyclist Salutes Dutch Cycling

Free cycling courses