Newcastle Bike Love Corral
The Bike Love Corral is a manifestation of bike fun presented by Newcastle volunteers from a variety of supporting bike activism groups.
The Supporting Volunteers Bike Activism Groups
Critical Mass Australia
The following international website has information about Critical Mass in Australia.
Critical Mass Wiki
This is a wiki website for information about Critical Mass bike rides in cities around the world.
It has free information space for local Critical Mass groups.
If you are involved in a local Critical Mass group, you can add information and upload flyers to this site.
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date Critical Mass website.
Critical Mass Newcastle
Critical Mass Newcastle ride on the first Friday of every month from Civic Park (opposite the Town Hall). Assemble at 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start. Ride Daily! Celebrate Monthly!
Critical Mass Newcastle Wiki
Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre
Newcastle's own environmental, not-for-profit, community based, sustainable transport, no green-wash cars, bikefun centre. Push bike co-op: We take pre-loved bikes & parts that are then restored by volunteers. Free workshops on how to fix bikes, cycling tips, & traffic skills. If you want a bike, we help you recycle one, for free! Volunteers welcome to help save the world through BIKEFUN!
Newcastle Cycleways Movement Inc.
Work with Government bodies to improve bicycle facilities in the Greater Newcastle Area.
Its aims are to promote the safe responsible use of bicycles for transport, leisure and fitness.
Members get bike riding insurance, discounts, rides, legal advice, and more.
Newcastle University Bike Users Group
The Newcastle University Bicycle Users’ Group (NUBUG) is a cycling advocacy group, which seeks to promote cycling for fun, camaraderie, sport and transport.
We cooperate with other cycling and bike groups who share a mutual interest.
By broadly representing people who ride to university, we aim to encourage The University of Newcastle and Government Authorities to provide more infrastructure to support cycling.
NUBUG aims to promote safe cycling, sustainability, convenience, economic welfare, fitness and health and to eliminate environmental pollution.
(direct quote from the Constitution, 2. Aims and Objectives)
Links:
World Naked Bike Ride - Australia
Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy.
The next World Naked Bike Ride in Australia is on Saturday the 12th of March 2011.
Exact dates may vary from city to city.
This is the current poster / flyer, to be used for the WNBR Australia 2011 to help promote participation. Please print these and stick them up where people will see them. Why not colour one in and stick it to your refrigerator?
World Naked* Bike Ride - Newcastle
Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy.
A clothed or clothes free protest; riding with a message of peace & sustainability for planet earth.
The next World Naked Bike Ride in Newcastle is on Saturday the 12th of March 2011.
Date: Saturday 12 March 2011
Time: 2pm
Location: The little park just south of the Hamilton Railway Station in Beaumont St.
Assemble clothed with your bike. Ride to a secret body painting party. Wearing a bike helmet is compulsory.
Body paint yourself with peace signs, hearts and flowers.
Note: *Clothing 100% optional. Helmet Compulsory.
2011 poster below:
The Hosting Partners:
Students
NUSA Environment Collective - Ride a Bike Campaign
The Newcastle University Students' Association, Enviro Collective is the student environmental group on The University of Newcastle campus. In mid 2009 the Enviro Collective began the Ride a Bike Campaign to encourage bike use over car use among the Uni community. Riding a bike has minimal environmental impact, does not produce green house gasses or toxic emissions, does not produce noise pollution, is far cheaper than driving a car and it is easier to find somewhere to park your bike. Parking on campus for a year costs more than the price of many new bikes and decent second hand models.
Newcastle University Bike Users Group
Bike Love Corral has attended the Orientation Week at the University of Newcastle and helped with the stall for Newcastle University Bike Users' Group.
Students, staff, alumni and riders who visit campus all have an interest in the success of this group to lobby for better bike facilities like bike paths, bike racks, lockers and showers on campus plus better cycleways that link campus to the rest of Newcastle. Feel free to join if you have an interest in cycling for utility, advancing and promoting cycling and cycling facilities, cycling for recreation, fitness, sport, environment, community, protest or just plain fun in or in connection with The University of Newcastle.
Members of NUBUG are encouraged to network and promote bike activities that interest them and their peers. Maybe that could involve a social ride with a picnic, or a sweaty fast sports ride, or a mountain bike bush ride - its up to them and maybe you if you want to join. Bike Love Corral donated a very shiny almost brand spanking new Dunlop Ladies 18 speed Montain Bike which is being raffled as an incentive for people to sign up for membership and attend the Annual General Meeting. All members get a chance in the draw but you have to attend the AGM. Membership costs only $2. Membership enquiries can be made by emailing NUBUG or visit the Bike Love Corral at NUBUG or one of the NUBUG meetings..
The Annual General Meeting is in the second week of semester i.e. Thursday 10 March 2011, 5pm at Mamadukes coffee shop in the Shortland Union. The prize bike will be drawn then. Other NUBUG activities will be planned but as the club is just beginning for 2011 and it is up to the new members to get their direction. For the time being, members can take an interest in the events and bike activism cultural stuff that the Bike Love Corral partners present.
If you want to join the mailing list everyone is welcome. Members are subscribed to the mailing list by NUBUB moderators shortly after joining.
Bike Love Corral visits Newcastle University Bike Users' Group
Bike Love Corral visits Newcastle University Bike Users' Group.
The Bike Love Corral details are:
- Time: 10am to 4pm
- Date: Every Thursday During Semester
- Place: Outside the NUSA Building (on the grassy knoll or on the back verandah if it rains).
- Requirement: Current Newcastle University Bike Users' Group membership is required.
This is the current flyer / poster, to be used for the Bike Love Corral at NUSA to help promote participation. Please print these and stick them up where people will see them.
- Bike Love Corral on Facebook
- Newcastle Uni Bike Users Group:
- Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA)
- NUSA Environment Collective
- Bike Love Corral webpage.
Thursday Bike Bus to Uni
Thursday during semester the bike bus takes riders to Uni. Assemble 8:00am The Gateway Hotel, Maitland Road, Islington. Or pick up the group along the route. (Click here for map).
Archived material
Please refer to the Bike Love Corral past events page for material about past events.
Note
This "Bike Love Corral" page was included on the http://australia.worldnakedbikeride.org/ website here: http://australia.worldnakedbikeride.org/bikelovecorral/ . Users may have been re-directed from the old location of the page to this page. Previously the logos or banners of the The Supporting Volunteers Bike Activism Groups and The Hosting Partners had been featured with a hyperlink to that entities web site from their logo or banner. The ability to hyperlinking images to external websites is available on this wiki website. The editor of this page will fix the problem as time permits as this feature has only recently become available / know to the editor. Apologies are offered to Supporting Volunteers Bike Activism Groups and The Hosting Partners for the degradation of appearance of this page due to the change and this will be fixed shortly.
