Links
Bent Rider Online
Bent Rider Online is an online magazine and forum, with lots of useful information about recumbents. Click here to go to Bent Rider Online.
Creating Australia's fastest push bike, called Whoops 160
A site dedicated to creating Australia's fastest push bike, called Whoops 160. Our ultimate aim is to break 3 long standing world records: 200m (130kmh), 1 hour (84.5 km) & 24 hr (1021km). Click here to find out more.
Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a monthly event occuring in hundereds of cities worldwide. Cyclists ride in a group through the city streets to celebrate cycling, fossil-fuel-free transportation, redefining of the social space of our cities and reclaim autonomy in an automobile dominated society. Click here to find out more about Critical Mass in Australia.
Pedal Powered Vehicles Workshop Blog
The Pedal Powered Vehicles Workshop is an activity of the Cultural Transports Unit pedalling from RMIT University in Melbourne. The blog is our way of documenting, sharing and developing the creative process. Click here to find out more.
Picture Gallery
Link to our picure gallery of events and other things. Click here to check out pictures.
Challenge link
The 2006 Greenspeed OzHPV Cycling Challenge. April 1-2, Reg Hunt Park, Broadford, Victoria. $1000 in Prizes. Click here to check out pictures.
Australian International Pedal Prix Inc
www.pedalprix.com.au For racing events
The Racv Energy Breakthrough
The RACV energy breakthrough is an exciting program designed to provide opportunities for students, teachers, parents and local industry to work together to design and construct a vehicle, a machine or innovation in technology that will represent an energy breakthrough.
The RACV Energy Breakthrough comes together in Maryborough between the 23rd to the 26th of November, 2006 for 14-hour and 24-hour human powered vehicle and hybrid events, pushcart events, water-based Innovations in Technology and the Energy BreakFEST. The RACV Energy Breakthrough's website
Calculators for things bicycle-ish
Calculator for Speed & Power, Cadence , Steering Geometry, Spoke Length, Pedal Kick Back and Suspension.
Links before you ride
Here is a great site for the next time you are planning a commute any where in Australia, don't leave home with out having checked out this site, you may need it when you least expect!
Great maps provided by Travel Smart. Links are as follows
City of Melbourne Map and places you can get the map
Ride to Work Day Edition of map available from Bicycle victoria web site
Bikely route sharing website for cyclists
Bikely.com Has a great variety of bike routes listed some with good descriptions and you can down load GPX data for your Global Positioning System device! You can contribute your own route also.
Looking for places to ride or trails?
Rail trails Australia provides lots of information about places to ride with great scenery and no cars.
Great Southern Rail Trail
The Great Southern Rail Trail curently offers 53 kms of our rail trail through beuatiful countryside. You can see our last report here.
Berwick HPV & Cycling Club Inc
Casey-Cardinia HPV and Cycling Club Are a newly formed club, based in Melbourne's South East, (Casey, Cardinia & Greater Dandenong Council areas). Their objectives are to help encourage people to become more actively involved in HPV & Cycling activities.
John Perrin is the current President (2005)
Bulletin Boards
Yahoo Groups (formerly egroups)
If you are interested in joining the ozhpv discussion room,the addresses you need to know are:
Post message: ozhpv@egroups.com
Subscribe: ozhpv-subscribe@egroups.com
Unsubscribe: ozhpv-unsubscribe@egroups.com
List owner: ozhpv-owner@egroups.com
URL to group page: http://www.egroups.com/group/ozhpv
Bent (short for Recumbent) rider on line
This site publishes lots of informative articles and has a great discussion group where you can ask and find out about many things recumbent related.
International Human Powered Vehicle Association
Has heaps of mailing lists relating to trikes, HPV's, Water craft etc. Lots of traffic, much from USA, but Aussies like Tim Smith, Ian Humphries, Ian Simms contribute regularly.
Other HPV groups
Queensland HPV Enthusiasts Group
Cycling Directory
The Aussie Cycling directory has been operating for more than five years, and lists hundreds of websites in various categories. It is fully searchable and is a very popular jumping off point for cyclists
Cycling Groups
Brunsbug is the cycling organisation of the city of Moreland and run a bike shed full of old bikes and parts, currently open on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Brunsbug riders are regulars at Critical Mass rides which are held on the last Friday of each month, regular as clockwork.
Lots of information relative to everywhere as well as victoria.
The Bicycle Industry in Australia
Locate bicycle shops, find products, and check out the best places to ride.
Cycling Promotion Fund of Australia
The Cycling Promotion Fund is a Bicycle Industries Australia Ltd. initiative established in 1999 to help the bicycle industry take collective action to increase bicycle use. The fundamental aim of the fund is: Promote cycling in Australia by building strategic partnerships and funding and supporting campaigns which promote bicycle use.
Bicycle Federation of Australia
The Bicycle Federation of Australia is a non profit organisation dedicated to expanding choice and opportunity for recreation, transport and healthy activity for all Australians. It is the peak body representing non-competitive cyclists, and directly represents over 20,000 cyclists who belong to its member groups.
Looking for a used recumbent?
Try our for sale and wanted pages. We have listings of other sites as well as items for sale within Victoria.