UNSW Bike Club

Welcome back! It’s going to be an even more exciting year for the Bike Club. New tools, new bicycles, and best of all, new faces! Come down to our O-Week stall and help new students get riding to UNSW.

O-Week is finally here!
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O-Week, the Bike Club’s chance to make itself known to UNSW students, is fast approaching. So fast, in fact, that it starts tomorrow! It’ll run all week until Friday.

Our stall will be on the Quadrangle Lawn, #101, next to Circusoc. We’ll be handing out maps, suggesting routes to new commuters, selling safety accessories, and helping people fix their bikes.

Do you have some free time? We need volunteers for our stall. Email info@unswbikeclub.org.au to let us know that you’d like to help.

Cycling films on Wednesday
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We’ll be running a cycling film screening on Wednesday afternoon, featuring Breaking Away along with other more local moments of cycling fun. It’ll be followed by a Q&A session for anyone needing advice about riding to university. Wednesday 4 pm, Quad G26.

Ride to the beach on Friday
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We’ll be hitting the road to Bronte again, taking quiet streets at a gentle pace.  Come along and bring swimmers, a towel and water bottle (feel free to bring picnic stuff as well). We’ll meet at Anzac Parade at 4 pm on Friday.

Workshops resume this week
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Our popular weekly maintenance workshops, where you can bring your bike along and learn how to fix it (using our tools and the expertise of our volunteers), start this week, O-Week.

The first workshop will be on Tuesday 22 February, and they’ll run every week from 12pm-2pm on the Quad Lawn.

If you know about fixing bikes and would like to help out, come along too!

It’s that time of the year again, where a Critical Mass of several hundred cyclists rides over the Harbour Bridge!

26th November, meet at 5.30pm at the Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park North.

Stickers etc will be available for a small donation.
Bring Helmets., lights, etc
See you there!

Facebook event

To celebrage ride to work day on 13th October, the UNSW community (and whoever else can make it) are invited to chain their bikes up together to make the world’s longest chain of bikes (that we know about).

So at 12.30pm, bring a bike and a lock and some mates down to just below the Scientia Building (the top of hill at the end of University Mall) and get ready to connect to a whole chain of bikes (by locking your bike to the one behind you in one long continuous chain). The bike chain will be photographed so you can marvel at it for years to come and maybe one day you’ll tell your grandchildren about it!

Please let anyone who is interested know about this – it should be lots of fun and a nice way to meet the person who owns the bike next to yours on the bike rack.

Do you like cycling? And lunch? Together?

The burgeoning Youth Food Movement, which includes UNSW’s very own Suzie Hunter, is organising a ride-on lunch as part of the Sydney Food Festival.

It’s on October 16 from 11am-4pm.

Visit the website for bookings and more information: http://www.siff.com.au/event.php?intid=1049