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Boroondara Bicycle Users' Group
Boroondara BUG meetings are normally held on the 2nd Thursday of each month except January. The meetings are typically held at the function room at the Elgin Inn, cnr Burwood Rd and Elgin St, Hawthorn (Melway 45 B10). Optional dinner at 6.30pm, meeting starts at 7.30pm.
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News
Please report any problems or hazards you know of in Boroondara that need fixing. If you have a problem with a VicRoads road (debris, potholes, etc.) report it to the VicRoads Traffic Management Centre: telephone 131 170, available 24 Hrs a day. If it's a council road call the local council. Which is which ? - VicRoads roads are marked using black and red lines in the Melway.
It's only 76 days until the next ride2work day
It's only 80 days until the next Around The Bay in a day (ATB)!
15 June 2010
The Walmer St footbridge across the Yarra on the Yarra Trail will be closed until the 7th of August, 2010. More details
7 June 2010
BBUG submitted its petition to Stonnington Council requesting an Urban Bush Path be built beside Warrial Rd from the Gardiners Creek Rd Bridge in the north to The Boulevard in the south. Five hundred and fifteen people signed the petition.
22 April 2010
Two page map of Gardiners Creek Trail detour. Expected period of closure - 3 May until 30 June.
26 March 2010
Expect a diversion on the Gardiners Creek Trail between Toorak Rd and the velodrome starting about mid April 2010. This will be in place while the Gardiners Creek Trail is upgraded between these two points - duration about a month. The trail just gets better and better in Boroondara.
24 March 2010
The Yarra Riverkeeper Association are holding a bike ride along Gardiners Creek on Sunday the 11th of April. Further details here
5 March 2010
The Newsletter has been held up due to problems with the editor's editorial equipment.
2 March 2010
Super Tuesday went well - thanks to all the counters that directed their $50 donation to BBUG.
January to March, 2010 - Gardiners Creek Trail detour
A detour is to be put in place at Brixton Rise on the Gardiners Creek Trail, bypassing the High St underpass, to allow repairs to the creek bank by Melbourne Water. A recently built car wash has its newly washed cars exiting via Brixton Rise to High St, so watch out for these vehicles.
4 November to 8 December 2009
Bicycle Victoria and Stonnington City Council invite all cyclists who ride in and through the City of Stonnington to complete a BikeScope Survey. BBUG highly recommends you take advantage of this rare opportunity to comment on all areas of Stonnington: ---> go do the survey
Sunday - 25 October 09 - Rotary River Ride
For details see their website.
Wednesday - 14 October 09 - Ride2Work
Boroondara
Boroondara Council is taking part in Ride2Work and there'll be a free breakfast on the lawn of the Camberwell Civic Centre, 340 Camberwell Rd, Camberwell. Come and meet the Council and Boroondara BUG members. Not riding to work - doesn't matter - all cyclists are welcome.
Stonnington
Download Council's token and get a mini breakfast at one of three sites in Stonnington.
Latest Newsletter
Hi all. Here is the Newsletter and Rides Supplement:
July Rides Supplement
Julia B 17:50, 3 July 2010 (EST)
Newsletter Archive
Newsletter
The BBUG newsletter is published monthly. It is issued a week before the monthly meeting, ie on the first Wednesday of the month, except for January. Members can pay $10 per year to have a hard copy newsletter delivered or posted to their homes.
To receive notification by email each month when the new issue has been put on the website, as well as a reminder about our monthly meeting, send a blank e-mail to BoroondaraBug-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Subscribe now -->
You will also receive a call for contributions each month, about a week before the newsletter goes out. Apart from that you will rarely receive any other messages. The pdfs are also available on the links further below. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed.
The newsletter provides details of our next meeting and minutes of our last meeting. It also contains a variety of material related to cycling in Boroondara and beyond.
A supplementary section contains rides calendars for various clubs and BUGs in the Boroondara area and surrounding suburbs. The supplementary section is not archived on this web site. See the Rides page also.
Newsletter RSS feed
The Newsletter and Rides are available via this Boroondara BUG newsletter RSS feed. You can subscribe to a feed by using the button in your browser, which looks like this: Image:Feed-icon-14x14.png Still haven't a clue about RSS feeds then read this and this or read the help information in your browser on the topic.
Other news
These feeds represent the views of a variety of groups - some of whom we can relate to and others, from time to time, we cannot. Of course in this country, you can make up your own mind. Use Ctrl F5 in most browsers to fully refresh the feeds, as needed. Use key F11 for a better view.
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Up and coming events
Note: always check the details directly with the organisers just in case changes or errors have occurred. In the calendar below, click on the little down arrow (far right hand side, past the Agenda tab), to select your view of the world. See also our calendar maintained especially for our Affiliates.
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