Great Brisbane Bike Ride - 18/3/07

http://www.bq.org.au/bike-week/gbbr.shtml

Great Brisbane Bike Ride

Sunday 18 March 2007

Start/Finish - South Bank Cultural Forecourt

Come one and all for a very, very big fun ride around Brisbane. The streets
will be flooded with bicycle riders just having fun. Distances are a
manageable 35 or 60 km around the river loop. Some road or lane closures
will put us along Coronation Drive in numbers never seen before in Brisbane.
After some slight rises you'll be at the morning tucker stop at Chelmer,
then heading for home.

The ride support will include police, marshals, riding mechanics, radio
check-points, water stops, a sagged-rider wagon and two great tucker-stops
on the route.
This ride is designed for everyone, so grab your workmates and form a team.

How to Enter the Great Brisbane Bike Ride
There are several options:
Are you are entering and paying for yourself via credit card? Use our online
entry system.
Are you in a team where everyone is paying for themselves? That's a casual
team. Have a look at the team info sheet. You can either use the online
system, or the standard entry form.
Are you in a team where the Boss is Paying? Download the special "Boss is
paying" team form.
Are you part of a Family entry in the Great Brisbane Bike ride? Use the
standard Entry Form and fill in the relevant sections.
Are you entering the Family Fun ride? Once again, use the standard Entry
Form and fill in the relevant sections.

10km Family Fun Ride
For young riders, the 10k Family Fun Ride is a short alternative for those
wanting to be part of the big ride but wanting to avoid any sweat at all!

To make sure you enjoy the day:
Never stop on the road - pull off to the side!
Never ride more than 2 abreast - unless overtaking.
Have your bike CHECKED BEFORE the day.
Arrive with your water bottles full and tyres pumped up. Do it the day
before.
Bring sunscreen and togs for a cool-down swim at South Bank.
Bring a lock for your bike (free secure parking from 10am to 2pm).
Young children must remain with parents/ guardians and should ride the 10km
route.
Catch a train or ferry to the start. Your bike travels for free.
Obey all road rules and police directions.
Collect your ride number at the registration desk on the day - it's your
pass for your T-shirt and reflective ankle wrap.
Be at the finish site for the prize draw at 11 am. The ride will proceed if
it rains. Only extreme weather will cause cancellation.

The ride is great fun and great value.
You get:
- A FREE T-shirt
- Two FREE quality reflective ankle wraps
- Refreshments along the way
- Police and route marshals
- Mechanical support
- Post ride entertainment and prizes

Start/Finish
South Bank Cultural Forecourt
Registration from 6.00am
Elite riders depart 7.30am
Recreational riders depart 7.45am
10km Family Fun riders depart 8.00am

Parking at South Bank
The South Bank site has all the details. It sounds vaguely like a missile
system, but the South Bank Parking Guidance System "reports accurate,
real-time car park space availability to motorists intending to use the
major car parks within the South Bank Precinct".
Cyclists can be motorists too, but we're not restricting ourselves to just
petrol-powered transport.

More about Bike Week and other events at
http://www.bq.org.au/bike-week/index.shtml

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www.ozcableguy.com
www.oztechnologies.com

I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.


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LotteBum

LotteBum Wrote:
I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.

I had a feeling you'd be along soon to say that!


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adam85

"LotteBum" wrote in message
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I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.



Heh. Apart from a bike jam getting onto Coro Dr where everyone was walking
for about 10 minutes last year, it then opened up and everything went
smoothly from there. I'm up for it again anyway.

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www.ozcableguy.com
www.oztechnologies.com

OzCableguy Wrote:
"LotteBum" wrote in
message
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I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.



Heh. Apart from a bike jam getting onto Coro Dr where everyone was
walking
for about 10 minutes last year, it then opened up and everything went
smoothly from there. I'm up for it again anyway.

--
'www.ozcableguy.com' (http://www.ozcableguy.com)
'www.oztechnologies.com' (http://www.oztechnologies.com)

Only a 10 minute hold up? I must have been on a different ride that
day, we were stood still for a lot longer than that ...


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Duracell Bunny

I think this is a great, well-run ride for people who wouldn't
normally attempt a river loop. And I'd encourage newbies to have a
crack at it.

But for anyone else - well really, save your $30 for something else,
and do the river loop for free the other 364 days of the year.

I _may_ be doing the GBBR this year. But if so, it'll be towing my 5yo
daughter on the tag-along with my ye olde hybrid, along with my wife
(on her hybrid) and my 8yo on her Huffy......

Cheers,
Abby

Absent Husband Wrote:
I think this is a great, well-run ride for people who wouldn't
normally attempt a river loop. And I'd encourage newbies to have a
crack at it.

But for anyone else - well really, save your $30 for something else,
and do the river loop for free the other 364 days of the year.

I _may_ be doing the GBBR this year. But if so, it'll be towing my 5yo
daughter on the tag-along with my ye olde hybrid, along with my wife
(on her hybrid) and my 8yo on her Huffy......

Cheers,
Abby
You'll be joining the LA rides again at this rate Abby

Welcome back from your summer hibernation


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Duracell Bunny

OzCableguy wrote:

"LotteBum" wrote in message
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I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.



Heh. Apart from a bike jam getting onto Coro Dr where everyone was walking
for about 10 minutes last year, it then opened up and everything went
smoothly from there. I'm up for it again anyway.

Trackstand practice?

Tam

On Feb 12, 5:23 pm, Duracell Bunny Duracell.Bunny.2lv...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote:
OzCableguy Wrote:





"LotteBum" wrote in
message
...

I will, once again, be avoiding this mess of a ride at all costs.

Heh. Apart from a bike jam getting onto Coro Dr where everyone was
walking
for about 10 minutes last year, it then opened up and everything went
smoothly from there. I'm up for it again anyway.

--
'www.ozcableguy.com'(http://www.ozcableguy.com)
'www.oztechnologies.com'(http://www.oztechnologies.com)

Only a 10 minute hold up? I must have been on a different ride that
day, we were stood still for a lot longer than that ...

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Duracell Bunny- Hide quoted text -

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The hold-up would have been much shorter if there were no riders!

My kids enjoy doing it with me and get a sense of achievement from it.
I'll happily go along with them.

The size of the event is a big plus in getting non-cycling Brisbane to
sit back and notice and acknowledge cycling.

Donga

Donga Wrote:


The hold-up would have been much shorter if there were no riders!

My kids enjoy doing it with me and get a sense of achievement from it.
I'll happily go along with them.

The size of the event is a big plus in getting non-cycling Brisbane to
sit back and notice and acknowledge cycling.

Donga
You & Abby both make a good point - it encourages the young ones to
give it a go & ride in comparitive safety.

You still need to exercise caution though - at one junction there was a
policeman waving us through. There was also a pedestrian crossing there,
with a very determined old lady who exercised her right to cross the
road. How she never got bowled I shall never know.


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Duracell Bunny