Ride2Work Day is being celebrated on Wednesday 16 October with the usual breakfast on Hobart’s waterfront and Launceston’s Civic Square, as well as a first-time breakfast in Kingston and a new bike shop in Hobart.
The Kingston breakfast is being organised by Kingborough Council Bicycle Advisory Committee member, Mark Donnellon, and its chair Councillor Amanda Midgley, with a grant from Kingborough Council.
It will set up outside Maxie Coffee at 26 Channel Highway and run from 7.30am until 9am, offering coffees and pastries to local workers who arrive by bicycle or stop off on their way through Kingston.
The Hobart breakfast will also run 7.30am to 9am at Mawson Place on Hobart’s waterfront and will feature our famous pedal-powered smoothie bike, an on-site bike mechanic to provide advice and fix small problems, and of course coffees and pastries.
We’ll be joined by Hobart’s newest bike shop, 99 Bikes, which is set to open on 25 October at 125 Murray Street. They’ll bring a selection of bikes and information about their new store and you can go into the running for their opening competition to win a new bike.
We are also giving away a one-year Bicycle Network membership for new or existing members who sign up for our In the Loop newsletter as well as a few other goodies.
The City of Hobart has provided sponsorship this year, which is fitting considering the big strides the council is taking in creating safer streets for people walking and riding.
The Launceston Ride2Work Day breakfast will take place again at Civic Square from 7.30am thanks to the Tamar Bicycle Users Group. Check out their Facebook page for more information: tbugbikes.
Ride2Work Day will see the launch of Commute for Climate, which is a month-long competition aimed at getting more people riding.
Commute for Climate is being run by a group of University of Tasmania students but is open to anyone in Hobart to register and go into the running for prizes. More details are coming on the university's Environment Society Instagram page: www.instagram.com/tas.uni.enviro.society
It’s not too late to encourage your work colleagues to come along to a breakfast or organise a breakfast at your workplace. It’s an ideal opportunity to talk about how your workplace can better support employees who ride, scoot, run and walk to work and start a workplace bicycle user group if you don’t already have one.
Our website has handy tips to help people new to cycling create and plan a commuting route, understand what gear is helpful and what sort of bike will suit their needs. Experienced riders have a lot of useful advice to offer newer, less confident riders.