March 2018
The number of annual bike rider fatalities in Australia has remained stagnant for 20 years despite improvements to road safety.
New tariff move stalled
A secret move to slap a tariff on all bikes imported to Australia has been scared off in the wake of the outcry over a similar tariff imposed on e-bikes.
Bikes wind back the ageing clock
Two new studies of older adults – who during their life have exercised long and hard on a bike – has found that they rolled back the ageing clock.
Because Tasmanians’ health is riding on it
This article first appeared as an opinion piece in The Mercury, Thursday 8 March 2018. HOBART acting Lord Mayor Ron Christie couldn’t have been further from the truth when this week he called the proposed Battery Point pathway a luxury. Far from being luxuries, separated cycle and walkways are necessities if we are going to [...]
Bike Week members in running for luxury weekend
Anyone who becomes a Bicycle Network member before 16 March goes in the running for a luxury weekend away for two in Tasmania’s central highlands at the Thousand Lakes Lodge, complete with electric bike hire.
Social rides: Stanley and Hobart, 25 March
Free social rides in Stanley and to the Taste of the World festival are taking place on Sunday 25 March.
Parents urged to ditch the car
Australian parents are being called on to leave the car at home and give bikes a go on National Ride2School Day on Friday 23 March.
Bondi Junction cycleway works to begin
Construction is set to begin on the long-awaited Bondi Junction cycleway, but more funding is needed.
Another perfect Peaks
Along with death and taxes you can add perfect weather at Peaks Challenge Falls Creek to the list of life's certainties, but that doesn't make it easy.
Red-hot Orange offers a great day out
30-plus degree temperatures may have caused the road to melt, but it didn't stop more than 1,200 riders enjoying the Newcrest Orange Challenge yesterday.