City of Brisbane Commits $58 million For Cycleways

In his budget speech on Tuesday 16th June, City of Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said that $58 million will be spent in the next two years on major cycleway projects and $16.6 million over four years on making the Brisbane CBD more pedestrian and bike friendly. Cycleway projects include completing the Indooroopilly Riverwalk and…

Mountain Biking’s $100 Million Jump!

Blue-Derby-Trails

On 7th February 2015, 20 kilometres of world class mountain bike trails were opened at the then almost ghost town of Derby in a relatively remote corner of Tasmania. The rest, as they say, is history. Derby has boomed. People of all over the world have come to visit. International events have followed with successfully…

Four Children Killed, ‘Riding Bikes’

Sunday Telegraph snap

On 2nd February 2020 I woke up early on a Sunday morning to the news that the previous evening, four young children, three girls and a boy, were killed on a suburban footpath in Sydney. Three more children were hospitalised. At appears that a 29 year old male drunk driver, behind the wheel of a…

MTB Trails Cause Real Estate Boom and New Bike Shop

Giant-St-Helens

The sleepy coastal tourist and fishing town of St Helens in Tasmania has seen real estate prices jump 20% and a brand new bike shop open, thanks to new MTB trails opening. With a population of just over 2,000, St Helens would usually be too small to support a bike shop, but Giant St Helens,…