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Why Should I Care? Chain Mail http://www.bikenorth.org.au/ [email protected] Contents Vote for Council – why should I Vote for Council – why care? should I care? 1 Carolyn New Bike North Bike Saturday March 27th is Council Election Day and we decide who will be on the local Maintenance Evening council for the next 4 years. (Advanced) 2 WHAT’S THAT TO DO WITH CYCLING? Member Profi le: Craig Mac 3 Because what Councils do affects your cycling and you can affect Council. Councils are the main authority responsible for building and maintaining local roads and 2004 Diary Dates 3 pathways where we ride. The RTA has responsibility for regional roads and cycleways, but Cycling for Transport 4 the council plays a signifi cant role in making sure these happen and may even build the facilities. Councils are the key authority for: ResMed Velo; Corporate Cycling Success 4 • planning and developing bike routes and parking facilities. • ensuring bike safe measures are integrated into all road works. What’s happening locally 5 • making bicycle hazards safe. • ensuring commercial, residential, and other developments support cyclists. Crank Rites 8 • promoting and educating for bike use locally. So you think you have • including bikes in their vision of the area. 21 or more gears 8 YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOUR COUNCIL VIEWS CYCLING Riding & Touring 9 Let them know you are a cyclist and want things improved. Raise bicycle issues with Eating on the Go Councillors and “put cycling on their agenda”. (Fuel for Touring) 9 Councillors represent your community and you can help them see that a large proportion If hills are your friends, who of their community ride bikes and need a better needs enemies? 10 deal. A bicycle aware and supportive council won’t Rides Calendar 11 result in utopia for cyclists, but it will help. The views expressed in Chain Employed council offi cers Mail articles are those of make the recommendations the authors only and do not and do the work, but they are infl uenced by Councillors necessarily represent either and guided by the policies the common views shared determined at Council. by a majority of Bike North HOW CAN YOU DO THIS? members or Bike North policy Before the Election talk to the candidates standing in your local area. Find out their attitude toward cycling and raise their awareness. Remember, these candidates are as formulated by the Bike North ordinary people from your local community, often standing because of a single issue Executive Committee. and YOU may be the one who opens their eyes to the needs of people who cycle. Once Chain Mail you’ve sussed out your candidates, vote box) or Carolyn New, the Bike North SHOULD YOU HELP A COUNCIL for those you want to represent you. Advocacy Offi cer. CANDIDATE? If you are cycling the RTA Big Ride or Some of the bigger issues are the Councillor candidates are local people otherwise out of town on election day, BikePlan 2010 projects scheduled over and may be your friends, neighbours or don’t forget to vote before you go!!! the next four years and although these acquaintances. It is possible that you may There is no absentee voting!! are the responsibility of the RTA we be asked to help them in their campaign, also need our councils to advocate After the Election contact and such as by handing out leafl ets. If you for their timely design and facilitate congratulate the successful candidates want to help a candidate that’s fi ne, but their successful implementation. These who are now your local councillors. that’s a personal decision and must done projects are: Continue to raise cycling issues with in a personal capacity and should NEVER them and make it clear you expect their • Rail Trail, Eastwood to Concord appear as being support on behalf of support for cycle friendly proposals. West (2004) Bike North (even if they are a Bike North member!). Bike North itself MUST be • Chatswood to Harbour Bridge independent of political support. WHAT ARE THE ISSUES YOU SHOULD (2004) TALK ABOUT? • Macquarie University Connections See pages 5, 6, 7 & 8 for information For some ideas on issues to discuss, check (2004) about specifi c local council areas. out the cycling review of your council • Chatswood to Gladesville (2005) area in this issue. More questions? Talk • Lane Cove to Chatswood (2008) with your local workgroup convenor (see Local Working Groups Contacts Bike North Bike Maintenance We want your Evening (Advanced) ideas!! We are currently seeking expressions of interest from members who think Bike North has just created they might have the skills necessary to participate in the Advanced Bicycle a group to promote Bike Maintenance workshop. Following on from our successful “Beginner Maintenance Evenings” Bike North activities, such as North will be hosting an “Advanced Bike Maintenance” workshop on a our rides, festivals, other Monday in February or March. Unlike the Beginner workshops this workshop is not free and a fee of special events or just to $15 per person applies to any member wishing to attend. There is limit of raise our profi le. There is ten(10) people on the workshop and you will also need to have a number of prerequisite maintenance skills before you can be accepted for the a number of people already workshop. Wheel building will not be covered by this workshop. involved and we are looking The evening will be run by a fully qualifi ed bicycle mechanic in a professional workshop. for promotional ideas from If you are interested or want more information please contact Graeme Edwards on 9476-3624 or email [email protected] with your details. any members. Please send your If you have any suggestions as to what you would like to see covered by the ideas to [email protected] workshop then please include these in your email. or phone Debbie on We will be running further Beginner Maintenance workshops in the future. 9476 3624. No. 32 February 2004 page 2 Chain Mail Member Profi le: 2004 Diary Dates Craig Mac BIKE NORTH EVENTS How long have you been a member of Bike North? 9-12 April 2004 Tour de Cowra I have offi cially been a Bike North member Register now! Registration and tour details can be found since August 2003. on the BN website (http://www.bikenorth.org.au/cgi-bin/ Why did you decide to join Bike rides.pl?ride=80). This year there is a small registration fee North? and participants will need to register before April 1 !! Further Guilt, basically. In the previous 12 months, I’d been on many of the rides, checked out the information from Keith & Fran, 9614 0777 web site, and been given lots of good advice and encouragement from other members. 2 May 2004 Bike North Century Challenge To continue to accept this hospitality and 8 May 2004 Bike North Special General Meeting (more info about goodwill without joining didn’t seem right to me. Oh, and no one has laughed at my this in April Chain Mail) MTB, or made any derogatory comments 15 August 2004 Bike North AGM & picnic about my lack of style in riding gear. What an accepting bunch ! OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS How long have you been riding? I learnt to ride as a kid, but my parents 7 March 2004 Tour de Hills’ ride didn’t allow me a bike, because it was “too 20-28 March 2004 RTA Big Ride dangerous”. Now that I’m old enough to rebel, I bought a medium level MTB in December, 2001, and have ridden about The only other change I made was to the seat than I expected. 5,500 km since. height. After the fi rst stop at 24 kms, I had to Did you do the ride alone or with a lower the seat a notch, which resolved my group? I have really enjoyed fi nding things like left knee pain. I had adjusted the seat when Cooks River Cycleway to the Airport, fi tting my bike onto the car for the trip down. I had convinced a friend from the Tassie ride Parramatta Valley Cycleway, and the Oaks From now on I’ll pay much more attention to enter as well, so we started together. We trail in the Blue Mountains. to recording and marking my favourite and got separated in the rain for a bit, but rode What made you decide to do “Around comfortable position, rather than guessing together for the last 40 kms to the ferry at the Bay in a Day”? the right seat height. the halfway point and then got separated again later in the ride. I’d say most other Did you do any training for the I had heard from some Melbournians about riders were in groups or pairs. the event, and a work colleague sent me ride? Which direction around the Bay did his training schedule. I’d enjoyed the “Great I try to ride a few times each week to work you choose? Tasmanian Bike Ride” earlier in the year, (Ryde to the Sydney CBD, which is 16 kms), which was organised by the same people, and participate in a long Bike North ride I had been told the anti-clockwise direction and had convinced a friend that it was a every 2nd weekend on average. I had ridden was preferred, but by the time I got my challenge he needed to tackle as well. from Gloucester to Sydney over the October application in, this direction was full. Going What type of bike did you use for Long Weekend (375 kms in 4 days), and felt clockwise around the bay was probably the ride? that with the other regular riding, I’d be a blessing, as I had tailwinds to push me ready for the 200+ kms of the “Around the home.
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