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It was a lovely day when I set off for work this morning – a fabulous day for a ride, in fact. It stayed nice all morning, and then in the afternoon the low cloud came in, and it began to rain.

Cold, wet, drizzly rain. I had a rehearsal again tonight, so afterwards faced the delights of a fairly long ride home, on the laden Radish, with no waterproofs or even sensible rain clothing…

I believe it qualifies as an interpretation of the pneumatic tyre rather than a rim or solid tyre given the effort to imitate the action of a tire in absorbing and conforming to the road surface.  The actual outer surface was bound to leather.  Would love to see the inertial forces these had!  Germany, 1915 from Farren Collection.…

Hi fellow cyclistes
Sorry to get slightly off topic here, but I'm the lookout for houses, and house-owners who might need a family of sitters to take care of their house in Sydney's Inner South West over the mid-August to end of the year period.
We're a cycling family of four, and happy to look after cats, dogs, gardens, etc in exchange. Get in touch via SydCyc if you've got a place in need of sitters!

Miguel

The Effect of Active Transport, Transport Systems, and Urban Design on Population Health - Call for Papers Contemporary public health research and policy recognises that active transport (walking, cycling and the use of public transport), transport systems, and urban design affect population health. These associations are evident at international, national, regional, and local levels. They operate through the safety of populations in terms of injuries due to road crashes,…

HSMBA will be stating their case for MTB trails in Hornsby. Please come and support them.

As usual, there will be a vocal opposition group, who know nothing about cycling…

I love the blue bikes. They are incredibly handy, fun, good for a bit of exercise and a nice way to start the day. There are 175 stations along a 13km strip and a station at both ends of my street.

Getting to the airport: 15 minutes.

Getting to a hotel in order to meet a old work mate: 5 minutes.

Getting to the airport bus stop to get the no. 70 bus: 12 minutes. That's as quick as the bus without the wait, which can easily add 20 minutes.

And tonight, I had to drop off…

I've been holding my tongue about this for a while, but I'd be curious to know what everyone's opinion is about this... and whether I'm being entirely unreasonable. Are there no bike path rules? Is it every cyclist for him/herself? This may be an inarticulate rant...

My understanding of bike paths is that they should follow similar rules to that of the road. Keep left, keep to within your lane, give way in the usual road rule way.

I ride every day on bike paths and roads, and…

Americans love their cars, but Chicago is trying hard to define itself as a bike-friendly city, and it's working:

http://richardtulloch.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/cycling-usa-chicago-gets-it-right/

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Schadenfreude .... ain't it sweet. And a bike race in Geneva... 

Investing and cycling . . .

I’ve been working on this for years. It’s something I wanted to be able to do – but not enough such that I went out to practise for hours until I could do it. However, I’ve been gradually getting better, and I think I am now good enough to be able announce <drumroll> that I can at last do a…

I think this one is a bit tough, so I will give you a few clues:

1. These aren't technically our bikes. We had to leave ours at home and rent these for the day but they did the job well, nice light aluminum hybrids with Shimano Alfine 8 Speed hubs.

2. We were about to stop for lunch…

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My better half and I just spent a week tandem riding on the Clare Valley Riesling Trail about 110kms north of Adelaide South Australia

We began by basing ourselves at the Rising Sun Hotel at Auburn. Lovely old historic hotel clean and comfortable run by a wonderful family and staff providing excellent company, food and wine.

Rising Sun Hotel Auburn

We spent the first day exploring Auburn. A beautiful old town with many…

There was a bit of blue in the sky this morning so I loaded the kids into the cargo bike and headed off to get supplies. We came home via the CARES facility at Sydney Park. As you can see from the photo above, bike riding is a good cure for juvenile cabin fever regardless of the level of…

Time to stay awake and  watch the One day Classics live  at York lane. Starting from 10.15pm on Sunday the 22nd April.

The bar is located in York lane near Wynyard, if unsure google or facebook it.

There will be coffee and we are licenced. Byo as well.

Any inquiries call Dieter on 0415 236 351

I haven't been around much recently, as we've been in the UK visiting family. All a bit of a whirlwind, but I did manage to do one thing I had planned – to go for a bike ride.

I borrowed my father-in-law’s bike to go for a spin through the Warwickshire countryside. It was nice to get out, and riding…

Regular readers of Sydney Cyclist may well know that about this time last year I purchased myself a Dutch bike which I use as …

There is a new bicycle hire cafe in Brighton Le Sands.  Its called Mobile Bike Rental Cafe and it is shop 1, 376 Bay St Brighton Le Sands (novotel). The coffee is of a high standard.  Food is modern balkan we have burek, and they hire bikes for an hour, 3 hours, or for the day.  They do corporate deals and have a cycle school. Go have a look it is pretty modern looking.