Just because Bike Week is over doesn’t mean you have to put the bike back in the shed. Whether you want to ride for transport, for fun or for a healthier lifestyle, there are plenty of ways to get involved in cycling. The Easter long weekend is another great chance to get pedalling.

Transport

• Get your workplace or school involved to make it easier for everyone to work and school HERE

Mountain Biking

• Grab your mountain bike and explore some of WA’s natural beauty and its vast and diverse network of trails for recreation or for competition. See more at the MTBWA website. 

Touring

• Ride the Munda Biddi Trail, the longest off-road cycling trail in the world running from Mundaring to Albany. See more HERE

Recreational and social riding – road and path

• Challenge yourself by entering the 2018 Dams Challenge – entries close 3 April. Enter the race HERE
• Whether you are training for an event or just want to go at an easy pace, there is variety of clubs to suit your style of riding. See more HERE

Road Racing

• Take your cycling to the next level and compete in the The Element Road Series. The series and the dates will be announced soon. Stay tuned to their Facebook page.

BMX

• Get involved in BMX Racing for young and old.  From Club level right up to the Olympics. Join a local club in your area – we have 8 metropolitan and 12 country clubs. You can find out more about BMX in WA HERE.
• The 2018 State Super Series round continues in Byford on 8 April 2018. Find out more HERE

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Bike Week is Western Australia’s annual celebration of people riding bikes. So whether you ride for transport, for fun or for a healthier lifestyle, then there is a Bike Week event for you!

A diverse lineup of bike-related events and fun activities will be held across metropolitan and regional Western Australia between 16 to 25 March 2018. In particular, the Perth Metro-Central area has a wide variety of events to encourage you to get on your bike.

To start your Bike Week adventure, you’ll need to make sure your bike is ready for the week ahead and ride your bike to the Cambridge Street Festival where you can get a free bicycle checkup and lube at the Bicycle Pit-Stop (SAT 10 March). Or if you prefer to do-it-yourself, you might like to attend a bike maintenance workshop in Mosman Park (SUN 18 March) or Subiaco (TUES 20 March) although bookings are required.

Don’t have a bike yet, but not sure what bike you should buy? Head to the City of Belmont’s Come Try Learn –  Bike Drop in Session (SAT 17 March) where you can have a no pressure chat to a bike coach and mechanic and try different bikes of all shapes and sizes, including electric, cargo, mountain and even bike trailers. Make sure you do this early, so that you can then pop over to the City of Vincent’s Bike Market (SAT 17 March), where you can go and browse through hundreds of bikes and accessories on sale.

With your new or well-tuned bike, you are ready to start enjoying some of the community rides on offer in the Perth Metro-Central Area. These include:

• Cycle Power – Shelley – SAT 17 March – presented by the Girl Guides WA
• Fremantle History Bike Tour – Fremantle – SAT 17 March – presented by the City of Fremantle
• #eastfreo River Ride – East Fremantle – SUN 18 March – presented by the Town of East Fremantle
• Canning River Ride – Wilson – SUN 18 March – presented by the City of Canning
• Murdoch Meander – Murdoch University – SUN 18 March – presented by Murdoch University
• Fremantle Street Art Bike Tour – Fremantle – SUN 18 March – presented by the City of Fremantle
• Let’s Glow Riding 2018 – Mount Pleasant – WED 21 March – presented by the City of Melville
• Light Me Up Ride – South Beach – SAT 24 March – presented by FreoBUG

If you’ve always wanted to ride your bike to work, but need that little bit of motivation to get started, there are four bike to work breakfasts that you can visit, get yourself a breakfast reward and connect with other commuters. The first two bike to work breakfasts are located at Lake Monger and Mount Hawthorn (WED 21 March) presented by the Town of Cambridge and the City of Vincent.

To keep your bike running smoothly for the rest of the week and for the upcoming weekend, pop into the City of Vincent’s Bike Wash (THURS 22 March) in Leederville on the way home from work so that your bike is fresh for another bike breakfast on Friday (FRI 23 March) in Rivervale or Subiaco, presented by the City of Belmont and the City of Subiaco.

On Saturday 24 March, there are exciting new ways to get the family involved in cycling, with Cycling Without Age – WA presenting a WA’s first trishaw ebike that will enable residential aged care facilities to give their residents the feeling of “wind in their hair”. Or if farmers markets are more your family’s style, the Subi Farmers Market are offering a $10 voucher and a VIP bike valet service for the first 100 bikes that ride to market.

To finish off Bike Week 2018, in the morning (SUN 25 March) come into Leederville with the family and watch the finale of the The Ring Summer Criterium Series as cyclists go head to head in the streets of Leederville. If you’re interested in racing, you can join in on the New Racers Program or for the kids, the Little Critters Program. Or if racing isn’t your style, join in on the Baysie Loves Bikes treasure hunt and other bike festivities alongside the Leake Street Safe Active Street in Bayswater. Bringing up the rear in the afternoon, the Town of Mosman Park’s Community Fair encourages you to “pimp out your bike” and are offering some great prizes for those that do.

Bike Week 2018 looks be another great week and there are plenty of more events right across WA. So if you are looking into how and where you can cycle more often, whether that is on a mountain bike, road bike, hand cycle, BMX, cargo bike, electric bike or trusty commuter bike, Bike Week 2018 gives you the opportunity to connect with other in your community, regardless of your age, ability or background. To an event in your area, go to the event calendar and filter in your region HERE

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Best Practice Guides

Last year, WestCycle announced its best practice guides. As riders we cannot directly control the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours of other road users, but we can control our own behaviour and etiquette and if we uphold the highest of standards this will in turn, over time, result in respect from others.

There are three best practice guides; Riding Safely in a Group, Riding Safely on Your Own and Driving Safely with Bike Riders. WestCycle has a limited stock of printed guides, if you would like some copies please email bikeweek@westcycle.org.au

Digital versions of the guides can be found here and can be printed at home HERE

Home Printing Resources

Bike Maps and Guides

Are you keen to get to know your local neighbourhood on foot, by bike, or using public transport? If so, it could be time to Map Your Move using one of our handy local area maps produced in partnership with local government.

Printed copies available from:

Albany

Please contact Carl Beck at the City of Albany: carlb@albany.wa.gov.au

Joondalup:  Please call 9400 4232 or email: enviro@joondalup.wa.gov.au

While the following maps are not great for home printing, printed copies may be available by contacting the Local Governments directly.

Belmont: Please call 9477 7163, or via email at travelsmart@belmont.wa.gov.au

Cambridge: Please call 9347 6000

Cockburn: Please call 08 9411 3444 or email cycling@cockburn.wa.gov.au

Fremantle: Please call 08 9432 9999 (8am – 5pm) or email info@fremantle.wa.gov.au

Melville: Please call (08) 9364 0666 or 1300 635 845 or email melinfo@melville.wa.gov.au

City of Perth: Please call 9461 3333 or email info.city@cityofperth.wa.gov.au

Stirling: Please call 9205 8910 or email stirling@stirling.wa.gov.au

Subiaco: Please call 9237 9222 or email city@subiaco.wa.gov.au

Victoria Park: Please call the Seniors Access and Inclusion Officer on 9311 8111

Vincent: Please contact the City’s TravelSmart Officer on 9273 6558 or travelsmart@vincent.wa.gov.au

Wanneroo: Please call 9405 5000

You can find the link to all the maps HERE

Riding to work – guide

Interested in riding to work but not sure where to start? The guide answers frequently asked  questions including what equipment you may need to consider, fitness tips as well as clothing. Check out the guide HERE

Choosing the right bike – guide

Your Move has put together a guide the types of bikes you should consider when choosing a bike. Different bikes have different strengths. It is all about choosing the best bike for you and fitting into your lifestyle. Check out the guide HERE

Rules affecting cyclists and motorists in WA – guide

This resource is only a guide to the laws that apply to riding a bike in Western Australia. It does not include every legislative rule and requirement that applies to riding a bike, and is not intended to be used as a legal document, but answers some of the frequently asked questions about the road rules. You can see the guide HERE

Let’s Ride Junior Riding Program – guide

This guide provides parents with the skills and research to teach their children the correct way to ride a bike. You can view it HERE

Different Spokes for Different Folks – poster  

From the corner shop, to the nearest cyclepath or trailhead, to the great Australian outdoors and beyond. There are no limits to how you can use a bike including fun, fitness, transportation, engaging with a community of like-minded cyclists and much more.  You can download the poster: DIFFERENT SPOKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS

Basic Bike Maintenance – Guide

A well maintained bike makes for a safer, easier and more enjoyable ride. This guide provides handy tips to keep your bike in good working order. Find the resource here: Basic bike maintenance WEB

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Have you registered your event? Having all the events in one place on our website, helps us promote your event and helps the public find other events they might like to attend.

Even if you weren’t a Bike Week grant recipient, you still have time to register your event on our website HERE 

Facebook

Once you have registered on the Bike Week website, we will use that information to create a Facebook event on the Bike Week Facebook page. To make best use of this:

• Share the event to your networks (such as your local government, local bike clubs, bike shops etc).
• Post any updates and important information about your event
• Respond to any questions
• Post teasers or reminders in the lead-up to your event including on the morning of your event (e.g. “coffee is almost ready for this years Bike Week Breakfast, see you at 7am”)

Check out Bike Week’s Facebook page and the events that have already registered HERE

Instagram

Instagram can be a powerful promotion tool. If you would like us to post a promotional image of your event on instagram, either tag @BikeWeekWA from your instagram account or send us an email with a photo you’d like us to post to bikeweek@westcycle.org.au

Check out Bike Week’s instagram channel HERE

Print promotion

While social media is a great tool, sometimes old-fashioned flyers and posters can still be important to promote your event. Having posters in strategic areas will help promotion to the people most likely to attend your event. Why not drop flyers or posters in places where cyclists like to frequent, such as:

• Your local bike shop
• Local cafe that is popular with cyclists
• The local park or bike rack

You can find your local bike shop HERE

Don’t be afraid to distribute posters to community groups, local government organisations and local bike clubs. These will be important networks for you to make your Bike Week event in future years.

Local Newspapers

This year we will sending media releases to your local media outlets informing them of Bike Week events in the different local areas. Another reason to get your Bike Week event submitted into the calendar as soon as you can.

If you have an interesting story that you will think will help promote your event and Bike Week, please let us know and we can help coordinate to ensure that the message get out into the community. 

Some examples of stories include:

• Profile on someone who has recently learned to ride a bike and is now loving it
• Profile on a rider who has been actively riding or commuting for a long time which has encouraged others to follow
• If it is a school or children’s event, how children are getting on a bike and keeping active, fit and healthy
• Interesting story on some of the features at your event

Please email bikeweek@westsycle.org.au

Promote Bike Week

By including the Bike Week website in all of your promotional material helps cross-promote and makes sure that all of the events are well attended and a great success.

Consider ending your promotions with the Bike Week website e.g. “For more information about Bike Week, please visit www.bikeweek.com.au”

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You can register your event on the Bike Week website HERE. Go to the link and complete the form.

The following is a step-by-step guide to registering your event on the Bike Week website.

1. Contact Information: Contact details are important for when people want to find out more about your event. While we encourage you to engage with your participants through your Bike Week Facebook event page, there may be some people that don’t use Facebook and would like further information

2. Event Information This is the key information that will be displayed on the Bike Week calendar. Try and keep the title length to around six words and make it short and concise.  Please note that ‘Date of Event’ must be in the following format: DD/MM/YYYY e.g. 16/03/2018. When entering the time of event, please write it in the “10.00am to 1.00pm” format to make it easy to read. If the event runs over multiple days and multiple times please write it in the Description of the Event section

3. Location of Event and Event Marker Location. When you get to the location and map, type your event’s address and press “search”. Once the search has found your event’s location, you will need to confirm this by clicking on the location so that a red marker appears, (see image one). The form also has a tab for additional location notes, in case you need to provide specific details on how to find or enter your event.

Image 1: Event Marker Location Map

4. Description of the Event. When entering the description of your event, keep it to less than 100 words. Try and keep the most important information in the first 30 words such as  the type of the event and what is happening (see image 2 and 3). Make your description short and succinct to provide all the important information and to get people excited for your event.

Image 2: Example Bike Week Calendar Tile (left) on mouse hover (right)

Image 3: Example Bike Week Event Page

5. Event Website or Event Facebook Page.  While we will provide you with a page on the Bike Week website and a Facebook event page on the Bike Week Facebook page, you are still welcome to use your own if your prefer.

6. Event Image The Bike Week calendar requires an image to create your event tile. Avoid predominantly white background images as the text on the calendar tile is white and will be difficult to see (see image 2) The minimum image size is 800×800 pixels and the photo must be no larger than two megabytes. You can use free internet tools such as Canva to create images in the correct sizing. This will allow you to match the photo with the website requirements, and create your own graphics.

7. Event Keyword. This is for search engine optimisation. We have provided you with some keywords, but feel free to add more if you wish. Please make sure you separate each keyword with a comma.

Once you have submitted your event, we will get a notification and review it. We will then put it on the website and create your Facebook event page. When we have set up your Bike Week Facebook event page, please let us know your Facebook account so we can make you a co-host so you can answer any questions from potential event-goers.

Look out for other tips to make your Bike Week event a success.

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Metropolitan:

• City of Belmont
• City of Canning
• City of Fremantle
• City of Gosnells
• City of Joondalup
• City of Melville
• City of Rockingham
• City of Subiaco
• Cycling Without Age – WA, Inc.
• Fremantle Primary School P&C
• Murdoch University
• The Girls’ Brigade WA
• Town of Cambridge
• Town of East Fremantle
• Town of Mosman Park

Regional:

• Broome Tri Sports Association
• Burrup Mountain Bike Club
• City of Busselton
• Corrigin Community Resource Centre
• Denmark Mountain Bike Club
• Kondinin Community Resource Centre
• Mandurah Over 55 Cycle Club
• Marble Bar Community Resource Centre Inc
• Margaret River Primary School P&C
• North Tom Price Primary School Parents and Citizens’ Association
• Quairading Community Resource Centre Inc
• Rebound WA
• Shire of Boddington
• Shire of Dalwallinu
• Shire of East Pilbara
• Shire of Morawa
• Shire of Plantagenet
• South Newman Primary School P&C Association
• South Stirling P&C
• Spokes Cycling Club
• Wyalkatchem Community Resource Centre Incorporated

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1. Answer all of the questions

This is an obvious one, but missing some details in your answers can prevent submissions being successful. The grants are assessed using a scoring matrix on how well each of your answers meet the Bike Week objectives (see the Grant Guidelines).

2. Tell us everything and go into detail

To be fair to all applicants, our assessment is based on your answers regardless if your organisation has been running the event for many years, so please describe your event and in particular how your event meets the Bike Week objectives (see the Grant Guidelines).

3. Demonstrate value for money

With over 60 applications received last year and only $30,000, we are looking for the best value for money, so collaboration is key. In particular applicants that can demonstrate a co-contribution of funds, either directly from the applicant or from partnering business or organisations, will be highly considered. Please separate in-kind costs and cash components.

4. Promotion and publicity is important

The more people that are aware of your event, the more likely it will be a success. Think about cost-efficient ways to promote your event that targets the people you are trying to attract to your event. Consider this cost as part of your grant request. See our Marketing and Publicity page.

5. Demonstrate that you have a well thought out plan for your event

For example, do you know how to apply for the relevant approvals from your local Council, have you considered what you will need in the event of an emergency etc.?

6. Estimate and itemise the costs of the services or items you are requesting funding for

This will allow us to offer you a grant in the event we cannot give you 100 per cent of what you have requested.

7. Prioritise your funding request

Bike Week grants are very competitive, so only ask for funds that are critical for the event to be a success. While we would love to give everyone money for merchandise, equipment and gift vouchers, it is unlikely to be funded if it has not been demonstrated to be critical to the event.

8. Be creative

We looking for a diverse range of events to create a buzz during Bike Week. You may have also noticed that 2018 Bike Week has broaden its objectives to include all types of cycling, not just transport cycling. We want to see more people given the opportunity to experience all different types of cycling; on road, path, trail or track.

9. Address the Bike Week grant criteria as much as you can!!!

Checkout the Bike Week Grant Guidelines for the full Bike Week Aims and Bike Week Grant Criteria.

10. If you’re still not sure, give us a call or email before you submit

Contact us via phone at 6336 9688 or bikeweek@westcycle.org.au

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Major Bikeley Award

The Bike Week event that best promotes and celebrates cycling for transport and attracts new riders to the cycling community

City of Joondalup – Bike Dr. Event

Regional Bikeley Award

The regional Bike Week event that best promotes and celebrates cycling for transport and attracts new riders to the cycling community

Kondinin Community Resource Centre – Tour de Kondinin

Collaboration Award

The Bike Week event that best works with community groups and other organisations to share and communicate the cycling for transport message

South Metropolitan Health Services – Peel Region Bike Week

Promotion Award

Rewards excellent promotion and marketing strategies that engage and encourage participation in Bike Week events

Gelo Company – Famous Sharron’s ‘Going Round’ Music Video Clip

People’s Choice Award

The Bike Week event that the most participants nominate as the best event at Bike Week

City of Joondalup – Bike Dr. Event

The Bikeley Awards recognise outstanding achievements by Bike Week event organisers. Bike Week events are assessed on a number of criteria including: how the event met Bike Week objectives, the level of community engagement, the number of attendees and participant feedback.

Over 100 events took place during Bike Week 2017. The success of the campaign is testament to the hard work, passion and enthusiasm of everyone who helped organise or took part in a Bike Week event.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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So far some of the highlights for the WestCycle Team have been the City of Vincent Bike Breakfast, the Giro d’Perth and the Munda Biddi R.I.D.E. events.

There was a great turn out for the City of Vincent’s Bike Breakfast at Axford Park Reserve on Wednesday morning. It was well attended by a variety of people talking about all things bike over a BBQ breakfast. Pedaling Beans were there making sure everyone got their freshly ground coffee to start the morning and the Bike Dr. busy doing on the spot bike checks. We thought it was the best way to start our Wednesday morning.

The Giro d’Perth was back again for it’s fifth year! It was great to see so many families and groups in attendance. It truly is a back lane odyssey, we discovered alleyways and landmarks in our own neighbourhood that we didn’t even know were there. It was fantastic to see everyone dressed up for the event, there was some absolutely cracker costumes including ‘Team Trump’ and team ‘Where’s Wally’. It was a fantastic day for the whole family.

The Munda Biddi R.I.D.E (Realise, inspire, dream and experience) event was a fantastic evening. We were very excited to see a full house of people keen to be inspired and learn more about the Trail. It was a very informative evening with 4 guest speakers sharing their unique knowledge of the Munda Biddi Trail. It was a fun and informative evening for everyone involved and held at a great venue at Wembley Cycles.

This weekend the festivities continue. Some of the events we are really looking forward to are City of Melville’s Let’s Glow Riding, Baysie Loves Bikes, the Ride-In Cinema and Fremantle Story Ride in Fremantle. So get on your bike this weekend and check out everything Bike Week has to offer!

Have a browse through our Event Calendar, you are guaranteed to find an event for you.

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To say thank you for your feedback, survey participants go in to the draw to win 1 of 10 Bicycling Western Australia or Cycling Australia Memberships!*

Attended more than one Bike Week event? Please fill out a separate survey for each event to help us obtain the best results for each event organiser.

*Limited to one entry per person.

The survey will close at 5pm on 31 March 2017.

Terms and Conditions

1. Winners of the Bike Week survey will be drawn at random and contacted by email on Monday 1st May 2017.
2. Winners will be drawn from completed survey responses
3. Winners have the choice of a Cycling Australia Ride + individual membership or a Bicycling Western Australia individual membership
4. Existing members of Cycling Australia or Bicycling Western Australia have the option of: i) upgrading to a family membership or ii) transferring the membership to a friend

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