This course is commissioned by the City of Whittlesea, supported by the Whittlesea Bicycle Users Group (BUG), and led by Bike it Better. Learn more and register by visiting the Council website: https://bit.ly/4e1y20b Are you thinking about sustainability, cost-saving, health, and wellbeing by riding a bike? It’s a great time for people in the local area [...]
Streets People Love is a campaign supporting and promoting the efforts of local government to create safe and pleasant streets for people to live, work, play and move in. Campaign members are community groups representing residents around Victoria. Whittlesea Bicycle Users Group (Whittlesea BUG) is a campaign member. We're asking 2024 Council election candidates to [...]
As a cyclist it is easy to cover considerable distances and we often do not carry much more than our mobile phones with us for communications, directions and in case of an emergency. What would happen if this emergency left you unable to speak or use your phone? Your phone, even when it’s locked, could [...]
Membership fees will be due by 1/7/2024 at the new rate of: Individual $20 Concession $15 Family $50 as decided at our 2023 AGM. The WBUG Committee has decided that any new member who first joined after 1/1/2024 will have their membership extended to cover the 2024/2025 membership year so those people will not have [...]
We are inviting people to attend our free hands-on bike maintenance workshop to be hosted at the Laurimar Activity Centre in Doreen on Sunday, 5th May 2024 from 12 noon to 2.30pm. The workshop will be delivered by Cazz Clarke from “Bike it Better Cycle Coaching”. The event is organised in partnership with the City [...]
April the BUG cycling jersey At the last Committee meeting, Whittlesea BUG voted to adopt a new logo and jersey design. It portrays April the Bug on the front, the riding partner of Bugsy. The product will be available to purchase for one day only, today, at $240 each, a very generous reduction [...]
The City of Whittlesea is developing a Road Safety Action Plan – a 10 year roadmap for improving road safety in our community. You can help by identifying the road safety issues that matter to you and help Council prioritise their actions to improve road safety in our community. https://engage.whittlesea.vic.gov.au/road-safety-action-plan-2024-2034
We are proud to announce our first basic bike skills course for 2024. This will be held at Mill Park Leisure on Saturday, 20th April 2024 from 9.30am to 12.30pm. We are holding this event in partnership with the City of Whittlesea. You must register to attend this course at the following page: https://events.humanitix.com/build-confidence-in-riding-your-bike-on-a-shared-path If [...]
Bicycle Network is once again running their Super Tuesday Commuter Counts on Tuesday, 5th March, 2024 from 7am to 9am, which is happening in participating council areas across WA, SA, TAS, VIC, NT and NSW. The data collected contributes to the local council improving conditions for bike riders in the local area. If you have [...]
As part of the M80 Ring Road completion, the M80 Ring Road Alliance are identifying services and taking ground samples from beneath roads, footpaths and grassed areas to support their planning work. To carry out these works safely, the M80 Trail between Plenty Road and the Macorna Street bridge in Greensborough, will be temporarily closed [...]
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