Melbourne Bicycle Touring Club

Celebrate 60.
Weddings, Parties, Anything.
Summertime in Springtime Music Arvo.
Yours truly will be 60 years young and celebrating with food, friendship and live music at a Mark Street Hall on the Edinburgh Gardens, Capital City Trail, link.
The Cycle Touring Troubadours will be back Saturday 10 October, Mark Street Hall, Fitz Nth.
Andy Colville, formerly of The bushwackers on lead, Andrew Soos on 5 string banjo; in a club first, Ron Kousal on Piano Accordion and former Melbourne pub rocker Paul Lewis on rhythm guitar.
The afternoon will start at lunchtime, 1pm with yummy stuff to eat and drink, bring a cup, plate, utensils.
Simple sing along classics, classics of folk, 60’s rock, Gershwin classics will be performed.
The music will celebrate all those themes we cherish as cycle tourers, the sanctity of the group, the sanctity of the individual, the vast breathtaking beauty of the landscapes we cycle through, the sense of the sacred but also it’s brutality without warning, forcing us to pare down and rely on each other.
The euphoria of dinner together at day’s end.
Bring a favourite hat to celebrate individuality.
Once again, bring a cup, plate, utensils, the hall has a kitchen and toilets.
Mark Street Hall is a very pleasant half kilometer walk from our former venue Edinburgh Gardens Community Room.
It is on the railway easement connecting the former Edinburgh Gardens rail yards with the former inner circle rail line now Capital City Trail..

Open to financial MBTC members and anyone that intends to join our club before the night.

The library closes at 6pm so we will have someone at the door between 6:45pm and 7pm to let you in. The workshop will start at 7pm.

One of the many benefits of being a financial MBTC member is access to our Ride with GPS Club subscription.

This gives us extra route planning options, visual or audible turn by turn navigation, but most importantly is gives us our routes and maps when we are offline and in the middle of nowhere.

If you are not currently connected to the Ride with GPS club account, just post a message and I will talk you through it prior to the night.

On the night we will get our hands dirty. Here are some of the things that we will do in the club account:

• Using the club account
• How to create and save a route
• Using various map formats
• Adding POI's
• Adding/removing/changing route tags in the route library
• Editing a route and the use of control points
• Lock and unlock a route
• How to copy and edit a locked route
• To download or not to download the route & map for offline navigation?
• Locating and downloading the route in the phone app
• construct a route using a ride we have already recorded

The training and learning space has a desktop for each participant.

Here are some of the advantages of using the RWGPS Club account with offline maps & navigation:

• We've paid for it as part of our membership so lets use it!
• The club route library is at your fingertips
• Download offline maps on home wifi to save using mobile data when navigating in mobile reception areas
• We'll always know where we are on the ride as the map & route won't mysteriously vanish when we're out of mobile reception
• Look at the elevation of the terrain ahead
• Be able to check the remaining distance, and point to point distances
• If anyone decides to bail out part way into the ride we can be sure of getting back to the car or station
• If the ride leader is unwell or injured and has to abandon the ride then the ride can continue with another leader
• No more excuses for splitting the group when riders pass the ride leader and take wrong turns
• More members will be inclined to lead rides in the country with confidence
• Stop thinking and just enjoy the ride!