Flatlining Sydney – The train and weekend is your friend
When it comes to cycling in Sydney, I cheat a lot. I drive my car to favourite car parks and catch trains a lot. How else can you do a 40km loop that is a 60km return journey away. Here are some of these rides Flat Liner 1 – Redfern to Glenfield A lot of […]
Eastern Suburbs of Sydney
The Eastern suburbs of Sydney offers many cycling opportunities and attracts a lot of cyclists. Riding around and staying away from cars is difficult, hopefully this page will help you out. The easier way is just to ride early Saturday or Sunday morning before everyone heads out for morning coffee. Jump to read about La Perouse […]
City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is one of the better inner cities for cycling in the world. This page covers the City Centre and all of these suburbs – These are all managed by the City of Sydney council and this is their cycling page. They have a great team dedicated to active transport and they […]
Liverpool Area
Liverpool area is large and has some decent trails to ride. The best rides are Georges River (East Hills to Fairfield 20km), the Liverpool Rail Trail (25km), Chipping Norton Lake, the M7 and Narrellan and Mt Annan (30km of tracks). There is also the path to the M7 from Glenfield Station and Narellan Rd, Banks […]
Lane Cove Area
There is lots to ride in the Lane Cove area and the best is Lane Cove National Park which consists of very quiet roads and lots of bush. There are two good trails for commuting/scenery, the 17km long Epping Rd Cycleway and the shorter Shrimptons Creek cycleway to Ryde. But if you really want to […]
The City of Sydney Facebook Group
If you a Sydney commuting or bicycle question, this 8000 strong group will probably solve it. You will generally find Garry, the editor of CycleSydney.Wiki , there somewhere.
Whites Creek Lane and Sydney Park Loop
On a really nice Saturday in January, I headed off to try and find a workable easy way to connect the wonderful Whites Creek Lane bike path in Annandale with the equally wonderful Sydney Park in Erskinville. That meant I would have to ride down to Pyrmont and head over the Anzac bridge and then […]
Beat the Bus #7 – Browns Water Hole
Beat the Bus no 7 came about as I was investigating the trails through Lane Cove National Park near my accountant in Epping. Something interesting had to come out of a trip to the accountant, so as I bounced and slid through the fire trails in Lane Cove, I came across a really solid concrete […]
Olympic Park to the City – Ride North or South of the Parramatta River?
I wanted to compare the quickest commute trail from Olympic park area to the Anzac bridge. So I rode from Rozelle to Rhodes via Lillyfield Rd then back down the north side of the river to see which side of the river was better. The result is Rhodes to Rozelle (Anzac Bridge ramp) north or […]
Waverley to Watsons Bay
Lots of cyclists ride in the areas around Watsons Bay, Dover Heights and Vaucluse and why not, the sights up the bay and down the cliffs are fantastic. But its all roads and there are people driving around. To minimise your risk you can ride on a Sunday morning and you can take it easy. […]
Cheating is good … When it’s a bicycle
If you keep your bicycle in your car, drive half the way to work and ride the rest, you have made your car 50% more fuel efficient. If you ride your electric bicycle to work, you have made your car ? percent more fuel efficient. I know lots of good car parks where I can […]
To Chatswood and Lane Cove National Park and back
We rode from Cammeray to Lane Cove Park a few months back. It’s a great circuit. I recommend that you start near Tunks Park and make your way to the trails under the freeway. You then branch of towards Chatswood and the paths winding up to Chatswood are really nice. Near Chatwwood there are some […]
Beat the Bus #8 – Shrimptons Creek
Beat the Bus no 8 features one of my favourite trails, Shrimptons Creek. It starts at Top Ryde Shopping Centre and heads to Macquarie University and shops. Its very easy, if you live in North Ryde or Denistone East and head to Macquarie University or shops or the offices, you should be riding this trail […]
Beat the bus #6 – Earlwood Heights to Ikea
For Beat the Bus no 6, I thought I would include an interesting not so obvious 20 minute ride starting behind Wolli Station in Earlwood. I have always looked at the wild forests where the M5 Motorway goes underground at Bexley North in Sydney’s south as a place that we really should have built a […]
Beat the Bus #5 – Alexandria to Darling Harbour Precinct
For Beat the Bus no 5, Nick Carreiro from the Sydney Commuters FaceBook group said “I generally do Alexandria to the Darling Quarter in 15-20min by bike and it takes 30min+ for train or bus in peak hour.” Back to me, I needed an easy ride after a few weeks of feeling poorly, this was […]