BIKESydney

Austroads Guide to Cycling Released

The  Cycling Aspects of Austroads Guides is now available for free download. This is an essential resource for people lobbying for cycling infrastructure in their local community. The publication provides an overview of the design, construction and maintenance of bicycle infrastructure and provides references to Austroad’s Guidelines for more indepth information.

CoS Community Matching Grants: Promoting Cycling

The City of Sydney are holding briefing sessions about their Community Matching Grants. If you’ve got an idea that will promote cycling in the city drop in and see if it’s suitable for the Matching Grants Program. Sessions are: Wednesday 2 March 12.30pm-1.30pm or Thursday 3 March 5pm-6pm at Level 4, Town Hall House, 456 […]

Riders on the Harbour Bridge almost double

North Sydney Council has released a draft report of bicycle counts on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway. The data shows that from 2002 to 2009 there was an increase in average daily traffic of 95%. For weekday traffic the increase was 118%. On the busiest day of the year in 2010 (26 Oct) 2613 journeys were made […]

Ride Your City

Ride the City Sydney, an online route finding service, has just launched in Sydney. The system uses bike routing data from Open Street Map (OSM), the volunteer effort to map the world. We’re proud to have helped prepare the Sydney data on OSM but there’s still much work to do and we hope that everyone might […]

Spread the bike love

Spread Your Love by Hamed Kohan was shortlisted in  Seoul Cycle Design 2010. The tire design features heart-shaped knobs that create playful tracks on the streets. We hope that you all get the chance to create some playful tracks on the streets today. Happy Saint Valentines!

Temporary minor disruptions to College Street North Cycleway

One lane of the College Street Cycleway North of Park St will be temporarily closed to carry out some minor works. During 14 to 18 February: The wall will be sanded, grouted and have existing chips repairs. During 21 to 25 February: Once the wall is complete, pavers will be laid in front of the […]

Cargo Bike Picnic and Family Friendly Ride

BIKESydney, The Watershed and City of Sydney have teamed up to roll out Sydney's first Cargo Bike Picnic on Sun Dec 4. A family friendly ride from Centennial Park will deliver you to Sydney Park. Or just rock on down to the park and join us for a day loaded with fun!

Cargo Bike Splash Hit

BIKESydney’s Cargo Bike Picnic, held at Sydney Park on 4 December 2011 was a damp but popular event. More than 60 cargo bike riders braved wintery temperatures and squally winds to celebrate load carrying bicycles in all their glory and variety. Bikewise brought along their popular BBQ bike and Cheeky Transport their blender bike for […]

Sydney Festival Fever

Festival First Night kicks off on Saturday 8 Jan. The centre of the city will be transformed into a wonderland where you’ll be able to catch the headline acts of the Sydney Festival for free. With many streets closed to cars, it’s a wonderful time to explore the city. BIKESydney will be running free bike […]

Bikes outsell cars by 2,000,000

2010 has continued a decade of dominance with bicycles outselling cars each year for the past decade by over 2,000,000. Over 11.5million bikes were sold in that time. Selling over 1.3million bikes in 2010, the Australian bicycle industry is now showing clear signs of returning to its record levels of 2007. These figures represent a […]