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Ride Like a Pirate Day this SUNDAY!!!

Vernon Tang — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:47:07 +0000

UNSW Bike Club be settin’ sail fer a voyage ’round th’ seas o’ Sydney town with our mateys at BIKESydney. Aye, it’ll be… I’m sorry, I just can’t do it. Come anyway. It’ll be great fun! Maybe you could help me with my pirate dialect. I’m pretty sure it’d be loads more fun than finishing off your assignments. But make sure to come in your pirate uniform. Don’t forget your pirate hat, eye patch, peg leg, or parrot! Arrrrrrrrrr!!!!

What: Ride Like a Pirate Day
When: Sunday, October 9 – meet at 10:15 am for 10:30 am departure
Where: Meet at the Anzac Parade main entrance, UNSW.
Facebook event (BIKESydney)

If you miss the UNSW meetup, note that the main ride will start at The Hub (King St & Enmore Rd), Newtown at 11:00.

Bike club returns in O-week

Chris Moore — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:04:40 +0000

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!

Critical Mass harbour bridge ride

Chris Moore — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:01:15 +0000

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

Be part of the biggest bike chain ever!!!!

Jacqui Hicks — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:16:40 +0000

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.

Youth Food Movement ride-on lunch

Chris Moore — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:39:49 +0000

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

“Captured bi-Cycling” photo competition

Jacqui Hicks — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:51:35 +0000

As we ride, we are exposed to so much beautiful and powerful imagery – whether it’s the scenery, the small gaps in traffic to weeve through, some one else riding past you or just you feeling free on your bike. We are asking you to capture some of this beauty bi camera and enter the UNSW Bike Club “Captured bi-cycling” photo competition. The theme is “the beauty of your bike ride” and entries should be inspired by your ride to UNSW.

For your efforts, there will be some amazing prizes on offer including a bike from Europa Cyclery, panniers from Gazelle Cyclery, helmets from Nutcase and a bicycle tour from Electric Velocity – so get snapping.

Entries should be submitted before 17th September by email to events(at)unswbikeclub.org.au. Before entering you must read the terms and conditions. You will also need to fill out a Model release form for any people featured in your photographs.

Happy Cycling and Best of Luck!!!!

Facebook event

Loftus singletrack ride

Chris Moore — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:36:38 +0000

Due to extreme laziness I’m just going to copy and paste from Sydney Uni Bikesoc’s facebook event:

Time	Saturday · 10:00 – 15:00

Location	Under the Big Clock next to the Intercity services at Central Station

Created by:	Sydney Uni Bike Society – bikesoc

More info	An easy (~25km) mountain bike ride on some nice single-track. We’ll catch the 10:14am train from Central to Loftus (45min trip), ride the track and grab such lunch & beers afterward. There is no scheduled trackwork. The ride will be the combination of the following two tracks (Loftus to Loftus): ……http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Engadine-to-Loftus-via-National-Park http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Loftus-Creek-Loop (For my reference: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do?episodePk.pkValue=4455165) BYO: * Helmet * Water * Food, snacks, alternative sources of energy * $ * Sun cream * Sunglasses * Band aids / Dettol (just in case) Also (if you have them): * Spare inner tube / Patch kit / Pump (whatever you have) * Lock * Gloves Some handy links: * Trackwork: http://www.cityrail.info/service_updates/trackwork/?period=1&lineId=il * Sydney forecast: http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml * BOM Radar: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml If you have any questions, please send a message to Balint or Jerry. See you then!

Rally to support the new cycleways

Chris Moore — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:03:05 +0000

There’s a rally happening at Town Hall this Tuesday night from 6pm-7pm. It’s been called so that cyclists can show their support for the City of Sydney’s new cycleways network.

It will coincide with a rally Alan Jones has called to oppose the cycleways, so bring your bikes so it’s clear which side you’re on!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130529973656477&ref=mf

Workshops start Tuesday 20th July

Chris Moore — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:48:41 +0000

Our ever-popular bike repair and maintenance workshops will resume on Tuesday 20th July.

They’ll run from 12pm til 2 or 3pm, depending on the availability of volunteers.

How it works: you bring your bike along, you use our tools, and we teach you how to fix your bike!

If you’re keen to help out as a workshop volunteer, by opening our store-room and getting all the tools out, or putting them back and locking up at the end of the workshop, come along and say hi.

You can find us on the north-east corner of the Quad Lawn, on the raised platform at the base of the Basser steps.

Womyn’s/trans bike skillshare this Sunday

Chris Moore — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:07:47 +0000

Come along to the Workshop (16 Sloane St, Newtown) this Sunday 27th. 1-4pm and learn how to get all your bike bits moving!

This is a space for womyn and trans folk to share skills about bike fixing in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Bring your bike! Bring your skills and/or your thirst for knowledge!! Vegan [read more]