UNSW Bike Club

Critical Mass Harbour Bride Ride

Vernon Tang — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:47:21 +0000

It’s that time of year again. Join us for the perfect end to the uni year with the annual Critical Mass Harbour Bridge ride next Friday.

Following the success of October’s pirate ride, UNSW Bike Club will again be running a feeder ride from UNSW.

What: Critical Mass Harbour Bridge Ride
When: Friday, 25 November – meet at 4:50 pm for 5:00 pm departure
Where: Meet at the Anzac Parade main entrance, UNSW.

The main ride will start at the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park at 5:30 pm.

The UNSW Bike Club needs your help!

Vernon Tang — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:13:06 +0000

As you may know, the UNSW Bike Club has been actively seeking a permanent workshop space on campus and now it is crunch time.

Our final proposal is sitting on the desk of the decision maker and we need to make sure he knows how much a permanent bike space will help the UNSW cycling community.

If you have ever been to one of our workshops and been happy with what you learnt or how your bike was fixed, please email Professor Fred Hilmer (vice-chancellor@unsw.edu.au) and Mr Neil Morris (edus@unsw.edu.au) and urge them to support our proposal.

Anything as short as “I support the UNSW Bike Club proposal” to as long a message you feel necessary would be great.

Help support the UNSW Bike Club and help us continue to help you!

Craft Punk: Bike Bespoke (Sydney Rides Festival)

Vernon Tang — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:03:32 +0000

What better place to showcase your own signature style than on your bike?

Guaranteed to appeal to crafters, craft lovers and bike-riders alike, the Powerhouse Museum is holding a set of workshops this weekend paying tribute to the exhilaration a bike ride can offer. Craft up your wheels with funky flowers, or book for artist-led workshops and create high-visibility jewellery that will keep you safe while looking sweet, plus other groovy accessories. You can even learn the Zen of bicycle maintenance.

Free with museum admission ($6 for students); bookings essential.
When: 15-16 October (this weekend)
Where: Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
More info / bookings: Powerhouse Museum

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 in Semester 2

unswbike — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:26:08 +0000

Hi everyone,

The new term is here and Bike Club is back! Get ready for more workshops, rides and two-wheeled fun.

Come visit our stall at the following events:
O-Day, Weds 13 July 9AM-4PM, CLB Courtyard
Welcome Back Day, Tues 19 July 9AM-4PM, Main Walkway
Foundation Day, Thurs 28 July 9AM-4PM, Roundhouse Precinct

We’ll have info on upcoming Bike Club events, plus our new stickers and CRAZY BIKES!

And we’ll be starting up our regular series of bike fix-it workshops on the Quad Lawn on Tuesdays from 12-2. Just look for the Bike Club banner!

Have a great semester everyone!

Bike Club AGM 2011 (free beer)

unswbike — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:57:07 +0000

Hello bike riders/admirers,
The time has come for all things Annual and so we’re having a General Meeting to celebrate! Come join us at CLUB BAR on the first floor of the UNSW Roundhouse on Tuesday, 29 May at 6PM for a whole heap of Bike Club-related gasbagging! If you want to know more about Bike Club and/or get involved in what we do, then this will be the only thing you need to do on Tuesday!

You’ll hear about what we’ve done in the past year, what we plan to do in the future, and what your fellow students want to see happen at UNSW for cyclists. Want more bike lanes from your house to campus? Come along. Want to get your hands dirty helping run our weekly workshops? Club Bar, Tuesday 6PM. Want to be the guru behind the Bike Loans program? The door will be open. Want to tear down the Chancellery and replace it with a BMX ramp? We might just elect you President.

Free food from the Bistro, free beer and soft drinks from the Unibar, and free speech about Bike Club. What more could you ask?

Tuesday! Club Bar! 6PM! BIKE CLUB AGM 2011!

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: Campus Meetup

unswbike — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:04:19 +0000

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.

Northern Beaches ride with Sydney Uni this Sunday 28th Nov

Jacqui Hicks — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:40:59 +0000

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!

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