Bicycle Network: Our Organisation

Our achievements

Working with our many constituencies, Bicycle Network Victoria has helped More People Cycle More Often. Note: New achievements always being added to this list...

Working with our many constituencies, Bicycle Network Victoria has helped More People Cycle More Often.

Note: New achievements always being added to this list. Bookmark this page for more.

A summary of our recent achievements

Activity	When	Summary of outcomes
RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride®	November - December 2010	Great Vic was blessed with the wettest campsites we have ever seen. Trucks bogged, campsites moved and rebuilt, trenches of mud from the traffic of 9000 feet but in the end, 4500 people had the time of their life due to the inspirational effort of the team.
HBA Around the Bay in a Day®	October 2010	Event team also delivered the Melbourne Cycling Festival including Around the Bay in conditions on the Friday that should have seen them building boats not marquees. With determination, they pulled together to put the event over the line with a record number of riders (16500)
Ride to Work Day™	October 2005	Almost 7000 registrations, 850 workplace coordinators, 12 regional breakfasts and more than 200 workplace breakfasts
Great Tasmanian Bike Ride™	February 2005	Over 1,100 riders took part in the ride
VicRoads Great Victorian Bike Ride®	November - December 2004	Over 8,600 riders took part in the ride, cycling over 580km throughout Victoria in nine days (see report, right)
Ride On® grows	December 2004	Bicycle Victoria's magazine grows to 52 pages Inspires people to get more out of their riding
Around the Bay in a Day®	October 2004	Over 8,600 riders took part in the ride 1,200 rode the 100km Challenge
Ride to Work Day™	October 2004	Thousands of first-time riders and regular commuters took part across the state
Bike Assist and Cycle Angels™	October 2004	Personalised bike and rider road-side assistance Forty Cycle Angel Volunteers on 2004 Ride to Work Day™
VicRoads Great Victorian Bike Ride® Free Bike	November - December 2004	6,500 riders took up the offer of the Free Bike
Ride On® grows	August 2004	Bicycle Victoria's magazine doubled in size (to 48 pages) Inspires people to get more out of their riding
40,000 Members	July 2004	Bicycle Victoria reached its 2005 target figure six months early
Port Fairy Rail Trail	April 2004	Commitee of Management formed as result of Bicycle Victoria's campaigning
Bicycle Parking Experts™	Throughout 2003-04	Many successful projects in last 12 months 190 bike parking spaces at 700 Collins St 140 spaces at the new National Australia Bank building at Docklands
Orange Great Melbourne Bike Ride™	March 2004	Australia's biggest bike ride. In 2004, 14,000 participants experienced Melbourne by the seat of their bike.
Monash Freeway Hallam bypass	March 2004	Bicycle Victoria pushed hard for a shared path connection
Coaching and encouragement programs	Early 2004	Establishment of coaching and encouragement programs through Membership Cycle for Health started in Geelong
Great New Zealand Bike Ride™	February 2004	Bicycle Victoria took some 1,200 riders to New Zealand First time there in 10 years
Cycle Instead in Greater Shepparton	October - November 2003	Increase of 95,071 cycling trips (38.8% increase) during the 2-month trial Decrease of 173,687 car trips Greenhouse abatement of 255.7 tonne equivalent CO2
Around the Bay in a Day®	October 2003	Around the Bay in a Day® sold out in 2003 A fantastic ride, despite very heavy rain.

Our achievements

A summary of our recent achievements

Activity

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Summary of outcomes