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

New Edition of BikePaths & RailTrails Guide still only $24.95 rrp Australia's best selling SPRING cycling guide is really four guides in one!* 100's of safe off road escapes along Melbourne's fabulous bike paths * European style 2WheelTouring on the rail trails * Victoria's best Sip n Cycle cafés sponsored by Monte Coffee and * the Ride to Work bible.This all new re-badged handy, take anywhere pocket size, spiral bound BikePaths...

We salute Cadel now for the Cadel Effect

Bikepaths Guide along with millions of Australian's salute Cadel's maginficaent Tour de France VICTORY. His victory is having a Cadel Effect! On the winner podium Cadel got a little taste of home when Aussie pop star Tina Arena stepped up to sing the national anthem, Advance Australia Fair.Speaking in French, an emotional Arena admitted afterwards: "For Cadel to come to Europe and spend so much time chasing his dream shows what...

SmartEnergy Groups home system enables cyclists to regain control of soaring power bills

Melbourne designed Smart Energy Groups helps householders conquer power wastage ! As a cyclist you save heaps when cycling to work or touring and are probably very climate conscious, but what about your energy use at home? Until now, householders have had no way or discovering why their power bills have been forever soaring.However, dozens of worried Victoria homeowners and a raft of savvy commercial businesses in recent months have installed...

Save on the $8.95 end of Edition Bikepaths Guide Offer!

Take advantage of our LOW $8.95 end of 7th edition offer!We now have only a few remaing copies left of the very successful 7th edition, which we'd like to give you the last chance to snap up at the bargain basement price of $8.95 BUT ONLY while they last! Click here to go to the store

Update on the new Maribyrnong River Footscray Wharf

NOTICE: Possible disruption to cyclists.The Port of Melbourne advised from August 1 that works to redevelop Footscray Wharf as a commercial mooring facility for port vessels will involve a short part of the path south of Shepherds Bridge being realigned. Cyclists traveling on the western side of the Maribyrnong River Trail south of the golden Budda (pictured) and Shepherd Bridge are asked to slow down and watch out for works...

GrandRidge RailTrail (Map 40) set to reopen in August

NEARLY 2½ years after bushfire devastated the Strzelecki Ranges and closed the Grand Ridge Rail Trail, this key local tourist attraction is one big step closer to reopening, with two 66-metre bridges - ''mini Sydney Harbour style'' - recently installed on the Grand Ridge Rail Trail. (report in The Age 20/06/2011) If the weather stays fine for a few weeks and drainage, earthmoving and resurfacing works can be completed, project organisers...

New Bright to Wandiligong heritage path opens!

Discover Wandiligong Village's heritage buildings, quaint swing bridges, Wandi sponge cake and farm gate apple orchards and more ... Wandi Maze's Lynn Bullen is busy baking heaps of her famous mouthwatering Wandi sponges, to meet demand from waves of excited cyclists flocking up the new sealed 5 km all weather path from Bright, that has just opened along picturesque Morse's Creek. They are discovering heritage homes and pubs, quaint swing...

The Saturday Age Gourmet Rail Trails Feature

The Rise of the foodie biker By Richard Cornish - The Saturday Age (5/2/11) - Life & Style "People want secluded tree lined escapes. And they want decent food and coffee at the end of the ride" - says Mike Sabey. Extract:Rolling down the hill on my mountain bike on the old railway line , the air is full of scents of the country side.Eucalyptus, fresh rain on stone, sweet waves...

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