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New Edition of BikePaths & RailTrails Guide: Your complete Autumn Cycling Guide ... same LOW price!

New Edition of BikePaths & RailTrails Guide still only $24.95 rrp Australia's best selling guide is really three guides in one!100's of safe off road escapes along Melbourne's fabulous bike paths, European style 2WheelTouring on the railtrails and Victoria's best Sip n Cycle cafés sponsored by Monte Coffee. This all new re-badged handy, take anywhere pocket size, spiral bound BikePaths & RailTrails Guide (eighth edition) is over 200 pages. It is 50%...

Ride2Work peak hour numbers soar

Increases of up to 50% on key routes into the CBD, according to Bicycle Victoria, by Megan Levy The Age March 4, 2010 - 12:47PM.The number of cyclists on Melbourne's roads has soared by up to 50 per cent during peak hour in the past year, according to new figures.The biggest increases were recorded in Fitzroy and on the Yarra Trail, according to an audit of cyclists conducted by the...

Reader thrilled with new BikePaths & RailTrails Guide

How lovely to have the extended cafe listings and the new 2Wheel Touring section! says Wendy Mildred You will be pleased to know that I was thrilled to receive the first sold copy of the new guide for Christmas from my daughter and her husband. We have enjoyed our old one but it is great to have an update. How lovely to have the extended cafe listings and the 2...

Prahran Bike shop gives boy new hope

Prahran's Melbourne Bicycle Centre has has given a Blackburn boy Dylan Gleeson new hope with a replacement bike after his was stolen last week in bizarre circumstances when the 12 year suffered a seizure on a local bike path.Kathy Raemakers of Melbourne Bicycle Centre heard of the incident in which a young 16 year old boy saw Dylan having an episode and instead of helping out he stepped in and...

End of 7th Edition, half price bikepaths offer!

Take advantage of our $12.45 Half Price end of 7th edition offer!We still have a few copies left of the 7th edition, which we'd like to give you the chance to pick up at the bargain basement price Now $12.45 while they last! Click here to go to the store

Should path walkers keep to the right?

Lyn's common sense bikepath use suggestion needs your comments. More than 60 visitors have now blogged us with their views, most supporting her concept. Lyn from Doncaster writes: I am attempting a change in approach and create more simple and sensible shared bike/pedestrian path rules. When I was a youngster and we often walked along roads without footpaths, we were always taught to walk on the right hand side facing...

Westgate Punt Re Opens for Summer!

See BikePaths Guide map 16 Williamstown Paths Update: From the 17th Oct the Punt has re opened on weekends (Sat & Sun 9am-5pm) for the summer months.The Westgate Bridge Punt carries cyclists and walkers across the lower reaches of the Yarra from just north of the Westgate Bridge off Lorimer Street and Westgate Park (eastern side) to Science Works landing on the western side of the river just south of...

New Laws: Rogue cyclists face harshest ever fines and even jail

New Victorian cycling laws that came into effect on June 18th sets jail terms for rogue cyclists and fines of more than $68,000! With the huge surge in people taking up cycling in the last five years, rogue bike riders who believe they don’t have to obey the road rules have given their fellow cyclists a bad name and made it difficult to earn the respect and courtesy of other...

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