Bike links - Canberra, Australia, the World

Canberra bike links
Australia
The World
Newsgroups
Mailing lists

Canberra bike links

• Canberra Cycleways Map
• Bike lockers at bus interchanges
• "BUSCYCLE" - bike racks on buses
• Canberra's Bicycle Strategy (1994) (first draft)
• Canberra's  Bicycle Strategy (1997) (second draft)
• "Canberra Bicycle 2000". The ACT's final bicycle strategy (1997)
• ACT Traffic Handbook (1997)
• Canberra Bike Week 1999
• Pedal Power members have a good choice of bike insurance - theft, personal injury, third party damage and injury.
• HPV Challenge
• Print or the Bicycle Hazard and Suggestions Report to the ACT Government
• Canberra Bicycle Museum  enquiries to the Curator, Annemarie Driver.
• Canberra Cycles shop
• ACT Bicycle Superstore Online
• Big B Bicycles shop
• Off-road bike rides
• A ride around Lake Burley Griffin
• A ride in Namadgi National Park
• Over 100 bike rides around the ACT and region.
• Social bike rides on and off roads and bike paths organised every week by Pedal Power ACT
• Pedal Power ACT Inc
• ACT Veteran's Cycling Club
• ACT Cycling Federation
• Canberra Cycling Club
• Tuggeranong Vikings Cycling Club
• Canberra Off Road Cyclists (CORC) - rides and events
• Triathlon ACT
• Critical Mass, Canberra
• Cycling at the Australian Institute of Sport
• Bilbys Triathlon and Swim Club
• Cyclists Rights Action Group (CRAG)
• Canberra weather and records
• Roy Meurone's MTB site
• ACT Sustainable Transport Working Group
• Bill Dengate's 'Bike Freak' site
• Tour de Femme - once a year race for women

Australia bike links

• Bicycle Federation of Australia
• Cycling Australia
• Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA)
• mtb-oz online
• "Australian Cyclist" The journal of the Bicycle Federation of Australia
• Australia's National Bicycle Strategy (Commonwealth Dept Transport site) and in PDF format
• Aussie Cycling Links - go no further for great links
• Australian Cycling mail lists
• Bicycle Industry Australia (BIA) Ltd
• Cycling Promotion Fund
• Australian Bicycle Lobby
• Retail Cycle Traders Australia (RCTA) Ltd

• Nelson's Bicycle Links (1300 Australian bicycle links)
• Sports Medicine Australia

Victoria

• Bicycle Victoria
• Victorian Bicycle Coalition, c/- John Harland, 11 Ford St, Brunswick 3056 or email
• Bicycle network planning in Victoria
• Other information for cyclists in Victoria from VicRoads
• Victorian Bicycle Advisory Council (Victoria Government)
• Melbourne Bicycle Touring Club
• Peninsula Peddlers (Mornington Peninsula, Victoria)
• Cycling Sport Victoria

Western Australia

• Bikewest (WA Government)
• WA Cycling Federation
• Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Perth, Western Australia
• Perth Metropolitan Transport Strategies
• The Cyclists Action Group (CAG) of WA can be contacted at B.Robinson@per.dem.csiro.au
• University of Western Australia BUG
• Planning for improved bicycle access to Perth CBD
• Perth Mountain Bike Club, WA
• Cycle Touring in WA (Australia)

Tasmania

• Bicycle Tasmania
• State Bicycle Advisory Committee
• City of Hobart Bicycle Map
• Hobart Bike Plan (1997)
• Cycling Adventures Tasmania

South Australia

• Bicycle Institute of South Australia (BISA) - for cycle lobbying in SA
• BikeSouth - the SA Government's bicycle site
• Bicycle South Australia - SA largest recreational cycling group
• South Australian Bike camping Directory

Queensland 

• Bicycle Queensland Inc
• Queensland Dept Transport (Cycle The Web)
• Queensland Cyclists Association
• Bicycle Queensland's 'Cycle South East' strategy
• Cycling in Brisbane
• Brisbane Bicycle Touring Association
• Cairns Bicycle User Group (CBUG)
• Bicycle Association Gold Coast (BAGC)
• Rides in southern QLD and northern NSW

New South Wales

• Bicycle New South Wales (BNSW)
• The RTA Big Bike Ride (NSW)
• NSW Road Users Handbook (PDF)
• Bicycle Maps for many town and cities in NSW
• Newcastle Cycleways Movement
• Cycle rides around the Southern Highlands of NSW
• Western Sydney Mountain Bike Club Includes events calendar
• Bicycle to work facilities in Sydney

Northern Territory

• NT Cycling Federation

Other

• Commonwealth Dept Transport and Regional Services pages about cycling
• NRMA says cycling helps clean the air
• Bicycle Fish - Adelaide: Cycling Information for Australia & Asia
• Critical Mass Sydney
• Aussie Cycling Links
• Solar powered cycles
• World Solar Cycle Challenge
• Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic finishes in Canberra each year
• Bicentennial National Trail
• East Coast Touring Cycling Club organises rides around the East coast of Australia
• Australian Bush Cycle Touring Association
• Team Chaos
• Oz On Dirt
• MTB links and resources
• Dave Baldwin's list of links to Triathlon sites (and many others)
• Audax Australia
• Greenspeed recumbent bikes
• Cycling Australia Cycle Touring tips
• Boomerang Bicycle Tours (Australia)
• Bicycle Victoria Great Rides (Australia)
• "Pedalling Health - Health Benefits of a Modal Transport Shift" by  Harry Owen et al, University of South Australia and former Pesident of BFA
• Australian National Greenhouse Strategy (1998)
• Check the climate (average temps and rainfall) around Australia
• RailTrails - all the info about old rail tracks converted to walk and bike tracks
• Debate bicycle issues - better infrastructure? Ban bikes on major roads?   Police bicycle patrols?
• Bicycle resources at bicycle.net.au
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A selection of bike links from around the world

• International Bicycle Fund
• Bicycling Life
• The 10,000  mile National Cycle Network (UK)
• Bicycle Federation of America
• International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA)
• Cycling in New York
• European Cyclists Federation is the host site for the Velo Cities Conferences. Conference papers from Velo Cities '95 (Basle) are online here . Visit VeloMondial 2000
• Cycling Org: The Global Cycling Network. Mail lists, links to everywhere
• Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
• National Cycling Strategy (UK)
• Ontario Coalition for Better Cycling
• Strategy for Walking (UK)
• Economic impact of roadbuilding (UK)
• Think Before You Travel(UK)
• Travel Awareness Initiatives (UK)
• The Lothian Cycle Campaign (Scotland)
• Biking Southeast Asia with Mr Pumpy!
• The Bike Index
• The virtual breakaway
• Velonet
• Velo News
• The WWW bicycle lane
• Yahoo cycling links
• Pete's Bikeindex with 1,850 URL and email links
• International Human Powered Vehicle Association
• Mountain Bike information
• MTB Review
• British Mountain Biking
• Mountain Bike Review - a huge range of product and equipment reviews
• Drew White's got a huge list of MTB links here
• Online bike repair manual
• List of links
• How bicycles can benefit from Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
• Tour De France
• 1998 Tour de Taiwan
• Trento Bike Page ride descriptions around 31 European countries
• Triathlon USA
• Triathlete Online
• The Rockshox site
• Shimano Site
• Sportscover Bicycle Insurance
• WWW Bicycle Guide: mostly about bicycles and manufacturers
• Links to bicycle sites - mostly UK and Europe
• Ride your bike on water - pretty flaky stuff!
• Transglide 2000T bicycle transit system - only in America!
• Organised rides around the USA and the world
• Breton Bikes (France)
• Cycling Holidays in Europe
• Tour du Canada
• San Francisco’s Exploratorium, The Science of Cycling
• Odyssey 2000 , the longest and most expensive supported ride in the world.
• America by Bike
• Maps of bike paths in Los Angeles
• MTB rides in Orange County, California (and here)
• The Bike People - urban cycling and advocacy
• John Forester's site for cycling advocacy and engineering
• Planning for the Bicycle
• The Portland Bicycle Strategy - a strategy to increase bicycle use in one of the most cycle friendly cities
• Seattle Transportation Bicycle Program
• Sustainable Transportation Forum
• Reclaim The Streets (RTS) - A UK direct action site
• Bicycles and Traffic Signals
• Why traffic signal loop detectors don't catch bikes
• The Unicycle Page
• Weird tandem designs by Lovebike
• Bike to Work - a commuter's guide
• Bicyclopedia
• International Women's Challenge bicycle race
• Bicycle Advocacy Sources
• Sheldon Brown's amazing Bicycle Glossary - everything's here!
• Arcata Community Bike Program donates bikes into the community
• Le Mouvement de Defense de la Bicyclette - Paris

Newsgroups

Use software like Free Agent to read Newsgroups

• aus.bicycle : the best general bike newsgroup for cyclists in Australia

Bike stuff for sale - mostly US based

• rec.bicycle.marketplace
• triangle.forsale
• off.forsale.other

Mostly US content

• rec.bicycle.misc
• rec.bicycle.tech
• rec.bicycle.rides
• rec.bicycle.soc
• rec.bicycle.racing
• rec.bicycle.off-road
• dc.biking : about cycling in Washington DC
• ba.biking : about cycling in the San Fransisco Bay area

Mailing lists

Use software like Eudora to read e mail

A complete list of 175 mailing lists devoted to cycling can be found at www.topica.com.

Some of the mailing lists of interest to cycling in Australian includes:

• bfa-oz: Bicycle Federation of Australia
• bicycle-trader: The Bicycle Trader Mailing list
• bikecurrent: Discussions regarding bike electronics
• bikepeople: General/international list for bike advocacy
• bikesite: On-line webzine devoted to cycling and the internet
• bikes-n-transit: taking bikes on public transport
• bike-oz: the only mailing list for ALL cycling in Australia.
• bmx: General BMX list
• bta-wa: Bicycle Transport Alliance, Western Australia
• commute-logistics: Discussions regarding bike commuting
• downhill: mtb downhill
• facilities-n-planning: transportation infrastructure affecting cycling
• hardcore-bicycle-science: Serious discussions about the science and engineering of bikes
• IHPV mail lists from majordomo@ihpv.org subscribe to hpv, hpv-forsale, ihpva, rc, trikes
• imba: International Mountain Biking Association
• imba-pacific: IMBA sponsored Pacific Regional Conference
• marketplace: Discussions regarding buying a bike or components
• mbr: Mountain bike resources
• mbaa: Mountain Bike Access Australia - about preserving access for MTB in National Parks etc
• mtb: General discussions about mountain biking
• mtb-oz: mail list for Australian mountain bikers.
• audax-oz. Subscribe [audax-oz "your email address"] to majordomo@vicnet.net.au
• power-assist: Power assisted HPVs
• randon: Randoneering
• safety-n-education: safety and education about cycling
• touring: All aspects of bike touring
• ultra: Ultra marathon cycling events
• uwacc: Uni of Western Australia Cycling Club
• cmass-syd-news: for those interested in Critical Mass events in Sydney. Subscribe cmass-syd-news or cmass-syd-talk to majordomo@nccnsw.org.au

To subscribe to any of these lists (except 'audax-oz' and 'mtb-oz') just send a message to majordomo@topica.com with
"subscribe [name of list] [your e mail address]" (don't include the quotes)

To get the daily digest of messages (some mailing lists are very busy!), send this message to majordomo@topica.com
"subscribe [name of list-digest] [your email address]"

To read the archive file of a mailing list go to the www.topica.com site where all the mailing lists are.

Other lists which cyclists may be interested in are:

• alt-transp: send "subscribe alt-transp firstname lastname" to listserv@uci.edu
• transit-alternatives: send "subscribe transit-alternatives [your e mail address] to majordomo@bga.com
• transit: send "subscribe transit" to listserv@gitvml.gatech.edu
• transp-l: send "sub transp-l" to listproc@gmu.edu
• pednet: send "subscribe pednet" to pednet-request@europa.com
• bicycle: send "subscribe bicycle firstname lastname" to listproc@list.cren.net (or listproc@yukon.cren.org)
• hpv: send "subscribe hpv" to majordomo@zippy.sonoma.edu
• extreme_atb (mtb list): send "subscribe atb firstname lastname" to sunscribe.atb@cycnet.com
• womens-cycling: send "subscribe womens-cycling address" to listserv@netcom.com
• tandem: send sub tandem firstname lastname" to listserv@hobbes.ucsd.edu

Some of this information was found at Westy's site.
Colin R Leach has one of the best lists of transportation mailing lists and newsgroups, including for cycling

email addresses for overseas contacts:

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