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February 2025

Illegal e-bikes a worldwide problem

Police in the Netherlands seized 10,500 illegal e-bikes in 2024, an indication of the emerging threat to bike rider safety posed by what are, in effect, electrically powered motorcycles.
Artist's impression of the upgraded ferry terminal at Bellerive showing the bike enclosure with a green roof.

Tassie Bike News Bites

Hobart's first secure bike parking, better MTB facilities for the Dial Range and the possibility of 30km school zones feature in this Bike News Bites.

New Ballarat local link

The completion of a 1.2km shared path from Victoria Park, past Morshead Park to Sutton Street has provided a much needed high-quality bike connection to Ballarat’s southern suburbs.

Lane closures at Aspendale

A section of the southbound lane of the Nepean Highway will be closed for an extended period as level crossing project works are established for the Station Street crossing project.
Close-up Cropped photo of someone riding a bike and someone walking next to them.

Call for election bike spending boost

New South Wales advocacy group Better Streets has seized on new cycling expenditure research to call on political parties to spend $15 per person annually to boost cycling and walking.
Man wearing blue top and yellow helmet rides on an asphalt path to the Don River Bridge with sunlight glinting off the water to his left.

Social rides gearing up for 2025

Social rides are starting to gear up for 2025. Several rides are on offer across the state this coming fortnight and more are in the pipeline. The next edition of your social rides update will include all the Tasmanian Bike Week rides and events 1-8 March.  
Man wearing full face helmet and knee pads rides a mountain bike over a jump.

Can riding kit reduce crashes?

It feels like we have had decades of promises about “smart” cycling clothes and now the researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are putting some of them to the test.