Celebrate our 50th anniversary and make a tax-deductible donation this End of Financial Year This year Bicycle NSW is proud to celebrate an important milestone: 50 years of creating a better environment for all bicycle riders in NSW. We hope that one day New South Wales will be a cycling utopia. But, as the only…
Bicycle NSW recently joined the Illawarra Ramblers on its signature Sydney bike ride, 10 Sydney Bridges. Over nearly 50 km, from Milsons Point in the north to Caringbah in the south, the 15-strong group experienced the best of Sydney’s new bicycle infrastructure. It was a great opportunity to learn more about this relatively new Bicycle…
Bicycle NSW has always been clear that the registration and licensing of compliant EN-15194 e-bikes is NOT the answer Unfortunately, there is an ongoing media muddle about the difference between legal and illegal e-mobility devices. And this has recently been compounded by calls from the Queensland Government and some NSW politicians for unnecessary licensing and…
Over the last 12 months, Bicycle NSW has supported the Western Sydney Health Alliance with a pilot Active Travel to Schools project. In a collective effort to better understand the barriers to walking and riding to school, the project team worked with kids, parents and staff at 6 primary schools in 6 Western Sydney council…
With a wave of intense humidity behind us, Autumn’s edition of Ride Leader training took place in comparatively beautiful conditions: blue skies, warm temperatures and a cooling breeze for those pedalling around Sydney’s Olympic Park. Once again, participants and volunteers gathered in the morning at the Park’s Educational Centre. This time to assess nine new…
Until recently, Scott could never have imagined saying the words “I love to ride my bicycle.” Scott had experienced years of physical injuries from various workplaces and, as a result, he had slowed down. Activity had become harder and movement had become optional. Gradually life had narrowed down to a familiar routine: evenings spent at…
Back in October 2025, before the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway northern access ramp was complete, we positioned ourselves at the bottom of the Milsons Point steps, and undertook a bike count during the peak commuting hour. We marked every bicycle rider that passed us in both directions, scribbling away to make a note of several…
Amy Nguyen is a Community Lead in the shared office space that Bicycle NSW currently works out of in Sydney. At the start of the year Amy’s commuting habits shifted – a lot. Previously she was combining a twenty minute metro journey with a walk at either end. Now Amy is riding her newly purchased…
Bicycle NSW is a Member-funded organisation. The individuals and groups at the heart of the Bicycle NSW community are how we are able to do our work. They are also why we do our work. It is for them that we continue to campaign for a better cycling environment across NSW. d’Arcy Lunn’s initiative, Teaspoons…
For many families, school drop-off time is stressful. The fifteen-to-thirty minute window is a familiar scene: parents are rushing to get away to work, and children are distracted by the excitement of greeting their class-mates. There is the usual line of queuing cars, engines running, creeping forwards, or making three-point turns in the same space…