This Saturday you can ride with others to help stop fining healthy transport in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Sydney and Hobart. These rides are a very effective way to get attention and usually attract media coverage, so come and help make your ride big and effective!
Melbourne
Start outside Park Street Dining, on the Capital City Trail, 815 Nicholson Street Carlton North, meeting at 10.45am. Our route will follow a mix of quiet back streets and separated cycle/share paths, ending at Abbotsford Convent around 12 noon where everyone is welcome to join in a BYO picnic. Food can also be purchased at the convent.
Sydney
Meet at 10.45 at Darley Road Leichhardt, opposite the Hawthorne Light Rail Station. The 8.7 km route will be a circuit on bike and shared paths, avoiding on road cycling.
Adelaide
Meet at 2pm at the steps of Parliament House for a 2:30pm start. The ride will go along North Terrace, down Frome Road and through Botanic Park to Linear Park, then along Linear Park to West Beach, finishing at Henley Square. Riders can take the train back to the city from Grange Station.
Perth
Meet at the Silver Penguin Statue (near Elzabeth Quay) for a 10.00am start. The ride will follow a 9km route, avoiding on road cycling, finishing at Claisebrook Lake.
Hobart
Meet at the Hunter St bike path at 11.00am. The ride will follow the Intercity Cycleway for 13km, finishing at MONA.
Canberra
Meet at 11.00am at Glebe Park Rotunda, Bunda Street. The 5km route will end at the International Flag Display, Queen Elizabeth Terrace.
Helmet laws continue to be a barrier to safe everyday cycling. It is now almost thirty years since Australia went it alone on this one, and remains to this day the only place in the world where adults are regularly fined (and fined large sums) for practising this socially, environmentally and personally healthy form of transport. We demand an end to this stupidity.
Alan Todd, President, Freestyle Cyclists