Newcastle Bike Love Corral

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The Bike Love Corral is a manifestation of bike fun presented by Newcastle volunteers from a variety of supporting bike activism groups.

Bike Love Corral

Bike Love Fest

30 September - 4 October 2010

Bike Love Fest

Bike Love Fest
Newcastle's own Push-bike festival will celebrate bike culture with many diverse activities this October long weekend. As well as the usual Newcastle bike culture events on every week, all year round, more events have been organised for bike lovers!

Bike Love Fest partners are:

Critical Mass Global Ride Celebrating Cycling. Assert our right to ride on roads and not in the car door death lane.
criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/

Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre Community volunteer bike help concept offering free bikes / help all year round Fri / Sat at 106 Robert St Islington (West of Wickham Park) 49616582 Sustainable Bike Culture hub of Newcastle.
newcastlebikeecologycentre.blogspot.com

Newcastle Cycleways Movement Inc. Work with Government bodies to improve bicycle facilities & promote the safe responsible use of bicycles for transport, leisure & fitness.
users.hunterlink.net.au/~magsb

University of Newcastle Bicycle User's Group Cycling advocacy group, which seeks to promote cycling for fun, sport and transport. They have events, advocacy, rides, etc. nubug.org

World Naked Bike Ride Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy. (Naked or clothed legal bike protest)
australia.worldnakedbikeride.org

Bike Love Corral website
wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=Newcastle_Bike_Love_Corral
Bike Love Fest Facebook Event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140566685987241&ref=mf

Introduction and Partners

THURSDAY 30 Sept:

• Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (Pick-up or fix bike time)

Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St Islington. Time: from 9am to 12pm and 4pm to 6pm.
The Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library is for bike lovers who need to borrow a bike to join in the Bike Love Fest activities. We want you to look after the bike you borrow and join in the Bike Love Fest events, so a "deposit" applies. To get your "deposit" back you need to return the bike in no worse condition than when you borrowed it plus you can collect special Bike Love Tokens distributed at the Bike Love Events. The more Bike Love Fest Events you attend the more Bike Love Tokens you will collect and the less you pay - attend enough events then it's FREE! A similar deposit applies if you are fixing up a bike to have during the festival (this is to minimise the dumping of bikes around the CBD of Newcastle which has happened in previous years).

• EVENT : Fast Training ride with Newcastle University Bicycle User Group

Meet at Adamstown end of Fernleigh Track at 2pm. It's an opportunity to go for a quick ride out of the traffic. Expect speeds about 30km/hour, and doing so the ride should take about 50 minutes. This is only for cyclists who can keep that pace, because waiting for slow riders defeats the purpose of a training ride.

FRIDAY 1 Oct:

• Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (Pick-up, return or fix bikes)

Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St Islington. Time: from 9am to 5pm

• EVENT : Critical Mass Bike Ride (Global Ride Celebrating Cycling)

Assert our right to ride on roads and not in the car door death lane. Bring lights. criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/ Start Civic Park 6pm. Speed will be as fast as the slowest person

• EVENT : Bike Dinner

following the Critical Mass Bike Ride at local eatery 8pm. Bring your bike, lights, lock & money.

SATURDAY 2 Oct:

• EVENT : Saturday Morning: "Saturday Social Saunter"

Newcastle Cycleways Movement Inc. ride Distance: ~ one hour; Average speed 15-20kph. Starts at 8am from Stewart Ave Railway Crossing, Newcastle West. Easy ride, suitable for beginners/new members. An excellent opportunity to start/get back to cycling and meet some new people.

• Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (Pick-up, return or fix bikes)

Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St Islington. Time: from 9am to 2pm

• EVENT : Promotional Ride for World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR)

WNBR is a global naked or clothed legal bike protest ride. This is a semi-naked promotional ride, so wear at least minimums: Ride starts at Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St, Islington. Time: 3pm. Ride speed will be as fast as the slowest person. Body painting & bike decorating from 2pm to 3pm Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St, Islington. Bring swimmers and towel.

Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy. Oz rides in March. australia.worldnakedbikeride.org

• EVENT : Bike Dinner for the WNBRiders

Following the Promotional Ride for World Naked Bike Ride, riders will be taken to the beach to wash the body paint off then on to a local eatery for a group meal. Bring lights, some money and a bike lock.

SUNDAY 3 Oct:

• EVENT : Amy's Bake-off Beach Bike Ride:

Starts at Location: Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St, Islington. Time: 11am. (Remember daylight saving!) Visit the best beaches in the world, by bike. Ride speed will be as fast as the slowest person. Bring as much home-made baked goods as you can to share around at the end of the ride. You can also bring a picnic lunch or similar.

• EVENT : Bike Polo

Meet at Centennial Park, Tooke St, Cooks Hill at 1:30pm From 2pm to 3pm the games will be on. The Newcastle Gentlemen's Bike Polo Club will bring their equipment. Bring your own too if you desire.

• Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (Returning bikes time)

At Location : Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St, Islington. Time: from 4pm to 6pm

• EVENT : Bike Culture Films

Location: Croatian Wickham Sports Club, Wickham Park, Albert St Wickham. Time: 7pm. The premises are licensed and all ages. Please show your appreciation for the use of the Croation Club for our film night by purchasing beverages at the bar! Featuring local and global films and documentaries. Bring some money, a bike lock and lights for the trip home.

MONDAY 4 Oct:

• EVENT : Newie's Fabulous Foreshore Ride (11am to 12pm)

A family friendly bike ride for the public holiday. Meet on the Western side of Cowper St bridge (Carrington Bridge), Wickham. Ride the shared pedestrian cycleway to Nobbys beach crossing no main roads.

• EVENT : Bike games in Centennial Park from 2pm to 4pm

Join in games, or teach us some new ones. Slow races, tips and more!

• Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (Returning bikes time)

Location Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre, 106 Robert St, Islington. Time: from 4pm to 6pm

EVERYDAY:

• EVENT : Share the Love!

Do you have an idea for a bike cultural event / fun bike activity? Add your event idea to the Bike Love Fest notice board at Bike Love Fest Events Bike Library (at Newcastle Bike-Ecology Centre) with adequate notice and see other bike lovers join in with you. It could be a ride, a game, a costume parade, a debate - anything as long as bikes, cycling and having fun with other cyclists is integral.

Schedule of Events

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 Bike Ecology Centre poster

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 University of Newcastle Bicycle Users' Group (BUG) is a cycling advocacy group, which seeks to promote cycling for fun, sport and transport.

By broadly representing students and staff who ride to university, we airm to encourage the University of Newcastle, RailCorp, the Roads and Traffice Authority and Newcastle City Council to provide more infrastructure to support cycling, and make it safer and more convenient way to commute and stay healthy.

By putting more commuters on bikes, we hope to ease parking, road safety, obesity and pollution problems created by cars.
Links:

• NUBUG wordpress blog
• NUBUG facebook group
• Discussion and announcements email group

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 13th of March 2010.
Exact dates may vary from city to city.

Flyer

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.
The next World Naked Bike Ride in Newcastle is on Sunday the 14th of March 2010.
Date: Sunday 14 March 2010
Time: 5pm
Location: Civic Park, opposite Newcastle Town Hall
Body paint yourself with peace signs, hearts and flowers.
Note: *Clothing 100% optional. Helmet Compulsory.

BIG POSTER

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. All new members get a chance in the draw. Membership costs only a dollar. Tom Marshall is the convenor of the group and main student behind the NUBUG and you may contact him to join as a member: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=643812081&ref=ts

The Inaugrual General Meeting is expected in the second week of semester (to be confirmed). The prize bike will be drawn then. Other NUBUG activities will be planned but as the club is just beginning 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 be an affilliate member (that is free but lacks voting rights and can not run for elected positions) you can still be active within the group and join the mailing list. Here is the mailing list for NUBUG: http://boron.ocoth.net/mailman/listinfo/bikeusersgroup_nusa.org.au

Bike Love Corral

The Bike Love Corral details are:

• Time: 10am to 4pm
• Date: Every Thursday During Semester
• Place: Outside the NUSA Building (around the corner a bit or maybe on the back verandah if it rains).

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 University Students' Association (NUSA)
• NUSA Environment Collective
• Bike Love Corral webpage.

Flyer / Poster

Thursday Bike Bus to Uni

Thursday during semester the bike bus takes riders to Uni. Assemble 9:15am The Gateway Hotel, Maitland Road, Islington. Or pick up the group along the route. (Click here for map).

Bike Bus

Ride to Work Day 2009. Have fun and ride in safety with a visible group of cyclists along Newcastle’s East – West Cycleway from Nobbys Beach to The University of Newcastle for a free breakfast.

Organised by the Bike Love Corral as part of The University of Newcastle Ride to Work Day in association with the Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA), Enviro Collective, Ride a Bike Campaign.

Date: Wednesday 14 Oct 2009
Place: Assemble at the Nobbys Beach picnic pavilion, Newcastle East.
Bring: Your bike, helmet, a bottle of water and wet weather gear (just in case it rains).
Free breakfast: Registering your participation is required for the free breakfast on the Ride to Work Day 2009 website: http://www.registerridetowork.com.au/

Timetable (Follow link for map)

• 7:30 AM Start: Nobbys Beach picnic pavilion, Newcastle East
• 7:40 AM Stop and pick-up at Civic Park opposite the Town Hall, King St Newcastle (left hand side of Street when heading West)
• 7:47 AM Stop and pick-up at Hunter institute of Technology, Hamilton Campus, Parry St (Corner of Wood St), Newcastle West on the left hand side of Street, at Traffic lights when heading West along Parry St.
• 7:52 AM Stop and pick-up at Corner of Beaumont and Donald Sts, Hamilton on the left hand side of Street, at Traffic lights when heading West along Donald St.
• 8:00 AM Stop and pick-up at the Cycleway next to the stormwater drain, between the hockey fields and Energy Australia Stadium on Turton Road, Broadmeadow
• 8:07 AM Stop and pick-up at the beginning of off road cycleway, Corner of Croudace and Howe Streets, Lambton
• 8:12 AM Stop and pick-up at the Pedestrian and Cycleway traffic lights, Newcastle Road, opposite Jesmond Park, Jesmond
• 8:20 AM Stop and pick-up at Western Entrance of The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan
• 8:30 AM Finish at The Forum Sports and Aquatic Centre, The University of Newcastle

Links:

• Ride to Work Day at The University of Newcastle flyer
• The University of Newcastle, Cycling to Campus webpage
• Bike Love Corral on Facebook
• Bike Bus event on Facebook
• Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA)
• NUSA Environment Collective
• Bike Love Corral webpage
• Map of the route and timetable on Bikely.com

Festivals

Cultural Stomp

Newcastle’s annual Multicultural and Community Festival, to be held in Civic Park on Saturday 6 June 2009 (Long Weekend) in Civic Park, in conjunction with World Environment Day June 5, under the theme: "BE THE CHANGE", relating to Gandhi's statement - You must be the change you wish to see in the world!"

This Is Not Art 2009

2009 Flyer / Poster

Note

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