Ride On Magazine, Bicycle Network’s much-loved publication, is making a comeback. Relaunching in early 2025, Ride On will return as a quarterly print edition and e-zine. Ride On began in the mid-1970s when it started as Pedal Power Victoria, a 20-page newsletter. It evolved into an 84-page national glossy and became Australia’s most
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Orange, in New South Wales’ Central West region, is going mad for cycling. Local enthusiast and advocate David Waddell takes us on a tour of what’s on offer. Heaving myself out of the saddle to climb the last 50m stretch of the Pinnacle on a midday ride with mates I couldn’t help but reflect how
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Equivalent to a mountain stage of the Tour de France, the annual Peaks Challenge is a 235km ride with 4000+ metres of climbing and a 13-hour deadline. Australia’s most revered annual cycling challenge, the 2025 event is on Sunday 9 March. Starting and finishing at Falls Creek and set across three of the Victorian high country’s most famous climbs, you’ll tackle
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Prevention is better than a cure, and the best way to reduce the amount of wear on your drivetrain is by keeping it clean, as we explain here. First up, there are a couple of tools required for this important but often overlooked job, so we’d suggest adding those pictured above to your arsenal if
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Iain Treloar finds perfection in the imperfection of this titanium road bike. Some bikes are coldly logical perfection, a flawless frame married to a faultless spec. On these bikes, you don’t have to work to appreciate them – they lay their cards on the table and communicate their intentions clearly, leaving you in no doubt
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Away from the beaten tourist-track, Sulawesi offers mountainous terrain, lush foliage and all the ingredients for an amazing cycling trip. Colin Freestone shares his experiences gained from 15 years exploring the island. Sulawesi, that spidery, mountainous Indonesian island just north of Bali, is superb for cycling. It’s way off the beaten tourist tracks of Bali
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Calum MacKintosh recounts a journey of incredible highs and crushing lows on an unlikely bike. Dear Mum and Dad, I know you are both busy with your lives so I’ll save you some time. The start of this article is pretty boring, and I’m almost positive that you’ll be asleep after the first couple of
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More than a century after the box bike was first conceived, what improvements can still be made? Riese & Müller find innovations, discovers Simon Vincett. The car manufacturer Audi may have nabbed the term already but “Vorsprung durch Technik” could equally apply to German bicycle brand Riese & Müller, because “Progress through engineering” aptly describes
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The Dookie Rail Trail is a short trail that is perfect for families. Jason Watts is our guide. Way back in 1994, a little known punk band called Green Day released an album titled ‘Dookie’. One of the songs on the album was called ‘Welcome to paradise’. Now I’m not sure if Green Day have
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Stu Moysey tries this carbon racer targeted at the budget savvy roadie who doesn’t want to compromise on performance. Reid Cycles have undergone something of a renaissance over the past year, slowly shedding their perception as a budget brand with the release of well-received mountain- and road-bikes. Their road bikes have always been sharply priced, to
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