About us
Ashfield Bicycle Group is for people who want better conditions for cyclists in the Ashfield area.
We work with Inner West Council to improve road facilities and cycle paths.
We run regular rides for people wanting to learn more about getting around the area by bicycle.
We organise "feeder" events where we head off on our bikes for a ride and a meal, sometimes at night when we have the cycle paths to ourselves!
Upcoming events
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World Bicycle Day and Balmain Bike Bus
Pioneers Memorial Park, 217 Norton Street, Leichhardt, al, AUJoin us for UN world bicycle day.
Join the Balmain Bike Bus and others for a special World Bicycle Day ride featuring a trip
through the White Bay Power Station precinct — a route normally unavailable to the general public.
Three joining points:
Option 1
7.30 am – Depart Pioneers Memorial Park, Leichhardt,
to ride to Loyalty Square, Balmain, to join the Balmain Bike Bus.
Option 2
8.10 am – Depart Loyalty Square (outside Woolworths), Balmain with the Balmain Bike Bus and ride to White Bay Power Station.
Option 3
8.20 am – Meet at the Robert Street gate, White Bay Power Station. The ride will continue via Rozelle Parklands, the Anzac Bridge, Pyrmont and Darling Harbour
before finishing at Parliament House at approximately 9.00 am.
We expect Peter McLean (Bicycle NSW) and Kobi Shetty MP (co-chair
of the Parliamentary Friends of Active Transport) will join us for a short welcome and photographs - probably on the Hospital Road (Domain) side of Parliament House. Coffee nearby with anyone who can stay around 9.30-10-ish.About the Southern Link through the White Bay Power Station site. The route was designed both to provide a shared path through the site
and to serve as an emergency exit from the White Bay Power Station precinct. It is currently used by the Balmain Bike Bus when activities at the Power Station permit. There is a longer-term aspiration for the route to become part of a continuous off-road cycling connection between Balmain and the city, including a future cycle route along Robert Street.What is the Balmain Bike Bus?
Meeting Wednesdays at Loyalty Square, at the bike racks outside Woollies Balmain at 8am. They leave at 8.10am, cycling single file down quiet back streets of Balmain, ending up along Robert St in Rozelle, then stop at the White Bay Power Station to pick up more participants. They leave White Bay power station at 8.20am, making their way across
the Anzac Bridge to Pyrmont. After this they are flexible depending on the desires of participants that week - sometimes to help them get to their destination/s, or sometimes stop for a coffee before heading off to work or to make the return journey to Balmain.
• For more information about the Balmain Bike Bus, contact Rebecca Fernandez, by email on
rebeccafernandez@outlook.com1 attendeeFields, ferry and food
Concord West Train Station, 8 King Street, Concord West, AUJoin us on a night ride to Harris Park to share a meal.
MUST HAVE GOOD LIGHTS. (No lights = no ride)
Alternatively catch the train to Harris Park and meet at the restaurant.
FOR RIDERS - gather on the Queen St. forecourt of CONCORD WEST station (eastern side with the shops) at 4.15 pm for a 4.30 pm start.
If its raining, just catch the train to Harris Park to meet at the restaurant.
We will be joined by some riders from Bike Leichhardt.
Riders will leave Concord West heading east along 'The Drive' and through the fields of the Dame Edith Walker Estate, south along the Concord Foreshore trail and through a few back streets to the Mortlake vehicle ferry. (The ferry is free. Sunset is about 5pm). We'll go across the Parramatta river to Putney Point. Up the hill and along a few streets then onto shared paths. past Meadowbank towards Parramatta. We'll take the path next to the light rail through Rose Hill to Asees Indian restaurant on Wigram St Harris Park.
Aiming to arrive approx. 5.45 pm, stow our bikes and be seated about 6pm.
It's a 20klm riverside meander with the ferry and a few hills at Putney Point.
AFTER the meal you can catch the train home from Harris Park OR RIDE BACK. We'll retrace our steps along the north shore of the Parramatta river. You can catch a ferry at any of the wharves along the way. Remaining riders will go to Meadowbank and over the river, pass Rhodes station to finish at Concord West station via Bicentennial park. A 15 klm return journey.
You'll need working lights. Bright or reflective clothing. It will be cool, so wear layers and warm gloves. Bring a spare tube, tools and pump to repair a flat tyre. Bring a torch too.
FYI we can stow our bikes behind the restaurant. Bring a bike lock. Pay for your own meal and drinks.
https://aseesharrispark.com.au/
RSVPs close Monday prior so we can finalise numbers.
Please do not come if you are feeling unwell.2 attendees
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