Austcycle, Australia’s national provider of accredited cycle training will be on hand to help improve your skills.

You will learn about conducting a basic bicycle check, learning the correct riding positions, braking, balancing and cornering, changing gears, riding on hills, stopping and turning.

After the demonstration, a short ride around Picton Botanic Gardens, followed by a sausage sizzle lunch.
Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Picton

Picton Botanic Gardens

Where: Picton Botanic gardens

When: Saturday 5th November 2011

Start: 9:am

To register please contact Beverly Garrick, Sydney South West area Health Service on 4683 6025
or Leanne Ledwidge, Wollondilly Shire Council on 4677 1188

I’m trying to get to the nitty-gritty of what cycling does for YOU. Is it just a good form of exercise, or is there more to it?

What is it that makes people so passionate about their cycling?

If we can put a finger on it, maybe it will help promote, what we already know to be, a fantastic, fun and satisfying hobby, sport and/or means of transport.
I would love Everyone to comment. Young or old, sports, recreation, commuting, bmx, road or mountain. If you cycle because you love it, tell me why.

I’ll try to kick it off:

I cycle for recreation & exercise. Cycling  immediately made me feel younger because:

• it bought back feelings from childhood, wind in face, a little bit scary, freedom.
• Cycling is soft on the joints, so my dodgy ankle does not object.
• Peddling along is enormously satisfying, (I don’t know why) perhaps, with the help of gears, you feel few limitations.
• With only a little practice I could climb a small hill which I thought only the young and fit could do.
• Riding fast is exhilarating and FUN, and I CAN DO IT.
• Climbing a “significant hill” is tough, but I CAN DO IT and it feels fantastic when I’ve achieved a tough climb!
  Breathing hard, then getting breath back, a little more quickly than the last time is very rewarding.
• Riding with friends is wonderful, sharing the good and the tough and importantly, the coffee at the end!

What does cycling mean for you?