Date: Sunday 21st March 2010
Time: 10 00 – 10 15 am
Start: Watergardens (Sydenham) Railway Station
Distance: 18 klms
Level: Easy, any bike, Families welcome, some Highway riding
Cost: Free
Description: Join us as we investigate the significance of the first flight by Harry Houdini exactly 100 years ago. We will ride along the Melton- Keilor Highway to Plumpton Road and then to the plaque commerating Houdini’s achievement.
Then it is on to the Houdini Festival of Flight run by Melton Shire council at the Diggers Rest Recreation Reserve in Plumpton Rd. Lots of entertainment and activities from 11 am till 4 pm. Stay as long as you please.
Contact: Stuart 9364 2956
Report: 10 riders enjoyed a very pleasant ride to the plaque for a photo stop and then on to a very imaginative festival by Melton Shire Council for more photos with some very antique bikes. A swift tail wind carried us home.
Date: Sunday 27th September 2009
Start place: Woodend Tourist Information Centre
Start Time: 8 00 am
Finish Time approx 3 00 pm
Distance: 90 klms
Level: Medium, Road bikes or hybrids
Cost: Free, lunch – coffee money
Description: Meet at the Woodend Tourist Information Centre, Woodend, for this undulating country road ride to Daylesford via Tylden and Trentham. We shall stop for breaks at Trentham and Lunch at Daylesford and then return via the same route.
A good training ride for the half Round The Bay!
Inquiries: Stuart 93642956
Report: 5 riders braved a cool, damp and definately windy day.
Date sunday 5 april
Start time 10.00 am
End time 2.00 pm
meeting Burnside Shopping centre (mel 358 k5)
Level Easy
Cost GOLD COIN
Distance 20 kms
We’ll ride from Burnside Shopping Centre to thte opening of the new bypass before it is open to traffic,we ‘ll have the opportunityto to check out the cycle path from Caroline Springs to Fitzgerald Rd along to the Western ring road then to Federation Trail. PLEASE come along as Brimbug has been part of the lobby group to get cycling needs meet in this project
contact Stuart
93642956 or just turn up at burnside
20 riders enjoyed the new deer park bypass car free on a cool and windy day
- Date: 8th Jun 2008
- Start time: 10 AM
- End time: 2 PM
- Distance: 65km
- Level: Medium
- Cost: Free
Description:
Starting at the Caltex service station in Kealba (Melways ref. 26 H2) we ride along the Western Ring Rd bike path to Jacana Reserve to Broadmeadows Valley Park path to Craigieburn. Then we ride through Craigieburn to the bypass, down the Craigieburn bypass path to the service station on Cooper St where we stop for lunch. We then continue on the bypass path to the Western Ring Rd path through Jacana and back to the starting point at Kealba.
Enquires
Stuart Mc Laren
Phone: 03 9364 2956
Ride Report
It was a good ride, with 11 cyclists.
