Australian Bicycling acheivement awards

Hi Everyone,

I'm asking a favour, if you've been to the Sydney Tweed Rides or even just enjoyed seeing the photos would you mind taking a moment to nominate it in the Australian Bicycling Acheivement Awards (some of you may remember Damian won for this very site a few years back).

The category the Tweed Ride seems to fit in best is

10. Special Initiative or Event to Promote Cycling

This award seeks to recognise an initiative or event that has shown strong innovation and commitment to create interest and support for cycling during 2011. Individual initiatives and events play a critical role in the overall promotion of cycling. These events can either be one-off or annual to gain support and create improved environments for cycling.

Eligibility: This award is open to any organisation or individual who has delivered an outstanding initiative or event to promote cycling. Please include references to the following points when making your nomination for the Special Initiative or Event to Promote Cycling:

1. What role has this activity played in achieving positive promotion for cycling?
2. How has this program demonstrated innovation in the promotion of cycling?
3. How does this event promote long term improvements to cycling?
4. How has this initiative or event promoted improvement to cycling safety?
5. What is the key outstanding achievement in 2011?

And nominations can be made here

A few statistics about the Sydney Tweed Ride - 2011 saw the third ride with numbers approximately doubling each year from 75 riders to 180 to around 300 to 400 plus people this year.

It is possibly one of the biggest social rides in the Southern hemisphere! Media coverage has included local and international websites and blogs, many Sydney radio shows, newspapers, magazines and we even made the news this year on 2 different commercial channels!

Thanks for your support!

Susan