2006 BikeSydney Summer Solstice Ride – This Thurs nite – Friday Morning

2006 BikeSydney Summer Solstice Ride
22nd Dec at 1.30am (Thurs nite/Fri Morning)

Bike Sydney are holding the 2nd BikeSydney Summer Solstice Ride.Celebrate the longest day of the year by joining us for a unique event – the 2nd BikeSydney Summer Solstice Ride.

The ride is back. After the fantastic 2005 Summer Solstice bike ride, we decided we MUST do it again.

This time the ride is to South Head – The Hornby Lighthouse above Watsons Bay.

Date: Friday 22nd Dec (so catch a bit of an early nite Thursday and get some sleep and set that alarm clock)
Time: 1.00am (Friday morning) for a 1.30am depart.
Location: Martin Place – near the Cenotaph

The ride itself will take in lots of fantastic water views, some sneaky bike paths and undiscovered parts of Sydney. So charge those batteries (and bring spares), bring that puncture kit and some food for the ride (depending on what is open we may be able to get something to eat).

As a bit of a theme this year – wear something Red or put some tinsel on your bike.

Also we will need to ride out of Watsons bay as the ferry from there does not start until 10.30am. The ferry at Rose Bay starts at 6.00am. Some images from the 2005 ride can be found at www.bikesydney.org

And my mate wrote this

Summer Solstice, Sydney
by Brad Truran

Metal steeds commingle with the sun
faithful, even though defiled;
teach us to be mindful of car doors and potholes.
The sons and daughters of the velocipedic
solstice puff their uphill exhalations,
morning, noon and night they observe.
Ancients attuned to the turning wheels
laugh, ever so slowly at first.
It’s a long, long way from the spokes of time,
to synthesize with our spinning cranks and chains.

 

Cheeky VeloSocial Bike Club Christmas Party Sunday Dec 17 at Pyrmont Point Park

Meet at Cheeky transport at 2pm for a convoyage to Pyrmont Point Park (3pm) for a vegan barbie (BYO meat. We will take the Christiania full of ice and beer and a bicycle powered blender for cocktails. There will be music of some kind and some prizes for outfits and some events like skids and trackstands and some other cool stuff.

Very low key, it’s a real nice spot to spend the afternoon and watch the sunset

All welcome as long as you come by bike.

 

Summer Solstice 06 – coming soon

Due to the great fun we had last year with the BikeSydney Summer Solstice – it will be back – evening of the 21st Dec, morning 22nd Dec. Put in for your day off now.

 

Sydney Bicycle Film Festival 2006

CHANGE OF VENUE!
Due to technical difficulties, The Bicycle Film Festival will now be screened at the OLD GEOLOGY BUILDING easily found next to the Glebe footbridge on Parramatta Rd.

Just thought I’d also let everyone know where to be for FREE Bicycle Film Festival events!

FREE PARTIES!!!

Thursday 26th October
BIKES ROCK PARTY! Bicycle Film Festival Launch

Hermann’s Bar
7pm-12am
Come party hard with:
Tom Stone and the Soldiers of Fortune, Say Cheese and Die!, Vincent Over the Sink, Peter Costello, MC Sunny D, Chooch-a-bahn DJs,
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Friday 27th October

Reception

6-7pm
Old Geology Building (next to Glebe footbridge on Parramatta Rd)
Free wine, juice and vegetarian nibblies! Come and get excited about the first screening of the BFF EVER IN AUSTRALIA!

Bicycle Film Festival Afterparty
The Townie (Newtown)
11pm-late
Come, relax and chat over a beer or lemonade…

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Saturday 28th October
Bicycle Film Festival Closing Party
Hermann’s Bar
11pm-3am
Dance the night away with Dual Plover’s Winner and DJ Small Cock.

SOS!
Help is still needed with:
- valet bicycle parking. Come and relieve Fiona (from MASSBUG) for an hour or two so she gets to see at least SOME of the Bicycle Film Festival screening! Volunteers urgently needed to help on Saturday and a couple more people on Friday would be good too. So far, Fiona appears to be looking after the bicycle parking full-time on both days! It’s time to help her out!
Contact Fiona on paulfi@optusnet.com.au
- general ushering of people and various other things… If you’re able to help out on Friday night from 5:30pm, let me know as soon as possible and I’ll assign you a job! Yes! Go jobs!

~ Phuong ~

 

Spring Cycle Tomorrow

The Sydney Body Art Riders will be attending the Spring Cycle tomorrow. Come and join us. Meet us behind the stage in St Leonard’s Park at 7.30am for a ride across the Harbour Bridge. You need a helmet, bicycle, shoes and undies/budgie smugglers/G-string. We will provide the paint.
 

 

Cars are so, so energy inefficient

The following snip is from the summary of a CSIRO report on the future of cars. An interesting read if you have an interest in sustainable transport.

To me the killer fact is only 13% of fuel energy is used to propel current vehicles. Pretty outrageous when you think about it. Sure, less cars, more public transport, more active transport, better designed communities etc are essential but cars are going to be around for a while so why not make them better.

Be interested to know the energy efficiency of a bike. Must be pretty high. Any ideas anyone?

From the CSIRO:

Fuel cells could be a long-term solution to transport-related greenhouse emissions, but in the meantime car makers could do a lot more to improve vehicle fuel use, says CSIRO’s low emissions transport leader David Lamb. “Today’s typical car wastes most of the energy it gets from the fuel,” Lamb told the NRMA summit (see Truss: consumer demand should be the basis for alternative fuels take-up). “Only about 13% of the energy is used to propel the vehicle,” he said. “The rest is wasted in friction, noise, heat, braking and mechanical losses.” Car makers “already know” many technologies that could improve fuel efficiency, but they all cost more, he said. “They would have supplied them already except that fuel was so cheap. Engine improvements will arrive quite quickly now that fuel is more expensive, but they will cost about 10% more than today’s car.” Over the next six or seven years engines will generally get smaller and accommodate 5% or 10% biofuels, Lamb said.

http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps12m,,.html

 

The Bicycle Film Festival comes to Sydney !!!!!!!

Coming soon, a very exciting program at Sydney Uni on Friday Oct 27 and Saturday Oct 28. Complete with valet parking for your bike. And parties afterwards!

Check out the awesome programme at Bicycle Film Festival

 

ABC radio national: Bicycle Heaven. This Sunday 1:30pm

 

Push on is Bike NSW local news online

 

sydney’s most under promoted cycling event

velo social is here this friday at super short notice.

meet 7pm at the clare hotel for a ride around some of sydney’s most delightful watering holes and natural phenomena