the CycleSydney bike trail map

Back in 2017 I started making a map of all the decent (and ok) biketrails and back roads around Sydney.  It is hosted in Google My Maps Start using the Sydney Map here using this link ?? Using Layers It really is a good idea to study trails on a bigger pc and not just […]

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Sydneysiders – find your cycling district

Sydney is a gigantic place, more than 10 times bigger than Paris. In this Wiki, content can be refined to 10 different cycling districts across Sydney.   The pages on each district can be found here  Northern Beaches  |  Lane Cove  |  Parramatta and NW  |  Penrith  |  Liverpool  |  Bankstown  | Iron Cove and Cooks […]

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How to look at the streets and decide a trail

One of the most awesome things that has made deciding on a way to pick a bike track is Google Maps.  Google Maps say you, its bike routing is awful. Correct. Read on. I am not talking about Google bicycle routing (trail selection). First up you need to open Google Maps and zoom into an […]

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The Maps Page

In this site you will find information on recreational bike trails from all over Australia. These will be over 10km long and free from cars or will be on roads where cars don’t tend to hang out much. Our most popular map shows 1600km of trails covering all of Sydney.  Use and bookmark this link […]

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The Colours of the Sydney Bicycle Map

The Sydney cycle trail map (<<click to open)  has been built using Google MyMaps and appears as an overlay to Google Maps.  It has been viewed 450,000 times.  It comes with a legend of 8 different types of bike tracks and related places of interest.  You can turn these on and off in the map. […]

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How I made a google map of all Sydney’s Cyclepaths

How I made a google map of all Sydney’s Cyclepaths is the topic of my talk at the Australian Walking and Cycling conference at the Port Adelaide Town Hall on the 25th October 2020. In the talk I will be discussing this google-my-map https://cyclesydney.wiki/maps/sydney/ This map consists of 300 different paths that I have combined […]

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The Sydney Google BikeTrail map is now complete **

Want to know where to ride, want to see the hidden footpaths and better alternatives for riding around Sydney.  Well its all on this map from Richmond to Cronulla, Campbelltown to Mona Vale.  So bookmark https://cyclesydney.wiki/maps/sydney/   Open the map and use Google Maps as you would normally do and the trails will be in […]

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