Posted in Events, UNSW Bike Club on February 22nd, 2011 by Chris Moore |
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!
Posted in UNSW Bike Club on November 24th, 2010 by unswbike |
This Friday, 26 November 2010, meet fellow UNSW cyclists on the steps in front of the Electrical Engineering building to join the caravan to the Critical Mass Harbour Bridge Ride! We’ll be heading for Hyde Park around 5:15, so make sure to show up on time. We’ll head out of campus by turning right onto High St, then left down Wansey Rd toward Alison Rd, where we’ll pick up the bike path toward the city. The Mass will depart from Hyde Park at about 6.
Please bring helmets, lights, and maybe something to eat/drink/toss/strum once we get across the bridge!
For more info, contact Craig on 0433678824.
Posted in UNSW Bike Club on November 23rd, 2010 by Jacqui Hicks |
This is the big one: a ride from Manly to Palm Beach!
Join Sydney Uni for an adventure up through Sydney’s Northern Beaches, across the ocean and to the Central Coast.
This will be a relaxed, medium-length (~35km), one-way ride on mainly paved urban roads, with some short off-road sections, passing by the following beaches: Manly, Freshwater, Curl Curl, Dee Why, Long Reef, Collaroy, Narrabeen, Turimetta, Warriewood, Mona Vale, Bungan, New……port, Bilgola, Avalon, Whale and finally Palm.
The advantage of having so many beaches to choose from is that we can go for a dip whenever we feel like it!
An MTB/hybrid is recommended, but roadies are more than welcome to ride the paved alternate route around those specific, short sections and meet up with the rest of the group where the routes converge. All details are shown in the route map below.
The route is shown on this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116837327183750691304.000480ce6bc86cb46dcc7&ll=-33.666068%2C151.315384&spn=0.529766%2C0.695572&t=h&z=11
The ferry leaves from Circular Quay (Wharf 3) to Manly at 9:25am. Please be early as it is slower for cyclists to move through the crowds and queues (Adult: $6.40, Concession: $3.20).
Palm Beach to Ettalong ferry timetable & fares (Adult: $9.60, Concession: $4.80):
http://www.palmbeachferry.com.au/Timetables/PalmBeachWagstaffEttalong/tabid/60/Default.aspx
The return journey will be via the Northern train line from Woy Woy (~1hr 15min, Adult: $8.60, Student: $4.30). There is no scheduled trackwork: http://www.cityrail.info/service_updates/trackwork/?period=1&lineId=nc
The amount of riding should not be more than three hours in total. Factoring in the two ferries, the train, lunch, breaks and a swim or two, means we’ll be arriving back at Central after 6pm.
BYO:
* Water (lots, although there’ll probably be many public taps, etc, along the way)
* Food, snacks, alternative sources of energy
* $ (for the two ferry trips, return train trip, food, beer, etc)
* Plenty of sun cream
- Bathers, beach towel, hat, sunglasses (probably not warm enough this time)
* Band aids / Dettol (just in case)
Also (if you have them):
* Spare inner tube / Patch kit / Pump (whatever you have)
* Lock
(* Don’t forget to wear your swimmers if you want to take a dip later – saves having to get changed. – Probably not warm enough this time.)
If you have any questions, please contact Balint.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Posted in Events, UNSW Bike Club on November 23rd, 2010 by Chris Moore |
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
Posted in UNSW Bike Club on November 10th, 2010 by Jacqui Hicks |
After being bombarded with ‘how to vote cards’ and getting reacquainted with our old primary schools, we decided to get away from the Election Day shenanigans for a few hours and enjoy a ride along the Cooks River. We gathered at UNSW and some folk from Sydney uni came along too. There were a dozen or so of us, some old faces and some new. So there was some catching up and introductions in the first few kilometres through the back streets of Mascot. We stopped for a break near the landing strip of the airport, Balint got a bit excited about the planes. One looked like it was coming into landing and then turned away – a pilot miscalculation, a bit of aerobatics or perhaps they were just trying to decide whether they really wanted to land in Sydney on Election Day – who knows.
So, on we went, hitting the Cooks River in style at a leisurely pace. We were all grateful Eytan hadn’t brought his tall bike as there were quite a few low bridges and pipes for us to duck under. For those of you who have never had the Cooks River experience by bike, it is like a pleasant ride in the countryside – in the middle of Sydney. You ride along the river, passing mangroves, fields (sporting fields but you can always pretend they’re fields of daffodils), getting inspired by some cool backyard gardens and crossing over cute bridges. You pass other people with joyous smiles and you feel like using words like ‘serenity’. There are of course, dubious road crossing and a very narrow underpass, but that’s all part of the fun.
We stopped for a picnic at a playground, pulling out an array of goodies to make sure everyone had enough energy to get to Balmain. After an obligatory play on the equipment which includes the most efficient apparatus for making you dizzy – we almost continued on our way. As we were about to leave, a lost bike computer got everyone in the group scouring the grounds around our picnic area in a beautiful moment of team work. However, for all our good intentions, we were unsuccessful at finding the computer, and one can only hope that it has found a good new owner, who wanted to know how fast and far they were going for all the right reasons.
Bidding the Cooks river farewell, we headed into the unknown backstreets of Croyden, in hope that we could come out one day near Iron Cove. We did!! Not without some fortuitous instinctual navigation, followed by some less convenient turns, that took us onto a rather busy road. However, we all stuck together and ended up on the lovely Iron Cove bike path. By this stage we were all good friends, and when given a mission, we all got together to get it done. The mission was to get a couple of our party to a voting booth before they shut and then make our way to the ferry. As we entered the heart of Balmain we found the community hall and sent … in to vote for the first time. Then getting word from the world of iphone 131500 capabilities, we realised we were going to need to put our pedals to the test to get down the ferry on time. So, we raced off – unfortunately, we went to the wrong ferry terminal (there is about 4 ferry stops in Balmain I think). Balmain is not the flattest of suburbs, so an accidental trip down to sea level means there will be some climbing to get back to where you want to be. But without a complaint we all headed off to the other wharf, escorted by a helpful young lad on a scooter (who the tourism industry should really get a hold of).
As we waited at the wharf watching the reflections of the sunset, eating a family value pack of biscuits (and offering to everyone around), and taking group shots – life felt pretty good. We all hopped on the ferry, headed back to the world of swinging seats, two party preferred polls and a very confused country….
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