Guidebook Cycling Around Sydney 5th Ed.
This is Bruce’s 5th edition of the best-selling guide Cycling Around Sydney, which has now sold over 20,000 copies since its first release in 2003. The full-colour guide to 30 of Sydney’s best bike rides was substantially updated and reformatted by the author and reprinted in 2012 by publisher Woodslane Press.
It’s the perfect intro to a recreational cycling experience in Sydney and surrounds on two wheels. The 30 rides under five ride themes provides a mix of city back-street rides, coastal cycle tours, heritage cycling trails as well as the countryside around Sydney, the Illawarra, and up into the Hawkesbury.
Cycling Around Sydney includes:
- 30 rides, from 1 hour to full-day rides
- grouped under five ride themes: Feel the City; Time and Tide (history); Just Coasting (coastal); Lakes and Parks, and Smell the Bush
- all the information you need plan your trip, travel to the start using Sydney Trains and public transport, an confidently navigate your way using the colour maps and cue sheets
- full colour easy to read maps and step-by-step cue sheets for each ride
- great ideas on places to visit, restaurants and cafes to enjoy an a wealth of facts about what you will see along the way
- over 150 stunning, full colour photographs
Bike-it! Sydney author Bruce Ashley’s excitement at experiencing new locations and cultural delights is reflected in a guide that both stimulates and informs. He hopes it will get you out of the armchair an onto the saddle!
Getting hold of a copy
Although there has been a few re-prints, most bookshops and bike shops no longer hold copies so the best way to purchase a copy is to go to the Woodslane online bookshop or Paddy Pallin in Kent St Sydney CBD, or through suppliers such as Amazon, Booktopia etc. There is also a good possibly that it can be found in 2nd book shops or online such as through Abebooks