Five chocolate cafés over a day of feasting.

Its delicious, decadent (and a bit pricey budget $50 or more for the day) 

Meet at Rushall Station at 10am.

Shocolate (Fitzroy)
Koko Black (Carlton)
Fraus (North Melbourne) – a good spot for a savoury lunch
San Churro (Docklands)
Lindt (Southbank)

Finish at Fed Square at 4pm.
We’ll spend roughly half an hour at each cafe.

For route map visit
http://goo.gl/maps/iEHaZ

Contact Simon Stainsby bikenerd@gmail.com (0411 877 503) for details

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.

Regards, Julia.
Moreland BUG Secretary

Anyone available is encouraged to help out at our stall during the afternoon, from 12-6. Currently the early hours of 12-2 are well catered for. If you can please email committee@morelandbug.org to let us know what time you might be interested to help out. It is just a matter of answering inquiries and chatting with your fellow cyclists, and encouraging new people to join our mailing list.

If you can’t join in, then still try and drop by for a chat, and tell us your recent cycling thoughts for Moreland, or pick up a TravelSmart map.

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

Some of the items on the agenda are:

1) Sydney Road Street Festival

2) Council Update

3) Other Business

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.

Cast off your secret identity, don your hero costume and ride around the city thwarting wrong-doers.

The Batmania superhero ride will be a fun day of dressing silly and performing heroic challenges whilst riding around Brunswick and Coburg.

Prizes for best costume and most heroic deed.

Bring a camera or smartphone – some challenges will involve taking photos.

For details contact Simon Stainsby on bikenerd@gmail.com

Op Shop Ride – Sat 9 Feb 2013.

Start: 10AM Brotherhood St Laurence Op Shop Brunswick (If the 10AM start is a little early for you, join us en-route. I expect to spend around half an hour at each shop)

End: 4PM Al-Alamy Cafe Waterfield Street Coburg.

Visiting:

1. Brotherhood St Laurence – 109 Brunswick Rd Brunswick (Open till 4)
2. Christ Church Brunswick – 8 Glenlyon Rd (open till 1)
3. St Johns Op Shop – Daly St Brunswick (near cnr Victoria St), behind St Johns Church (Open till 1pm)
4. Don Bosco’s – 368 Sydney Rd (Between Albion and Moreland)
5. Salvos Brunswick – 740 Sydney Rd (Between Albion and Moreland) (Open till 5) and if we have time we can pop into two more op-shops near Al-Alamy.

If you are thinking about going on the Batmania superhero ride (Sat 02/03/2013) this is a great opportunity shop for costume inspiration.

To make op shopping a bit more fun we’ll do a show and tell at the end of the ride.

Will you be the rider with …

• The Craziest costume.
• Best find for under $5.00
• Coolest thing you can hold in the palm of your hand.
• Best bad taste / Kitsch item.
• Most stylish ‘DIY Diva” award (i.e. what crafty outfit will you make with your op-shop finds?)
• “Project Inspiration” award (i.e. what mad project will you make with your op-shop finds)

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

Some of the items on the agenda are:

1) Changes to the Incorporation Act

2) Follow up from the last meeting

> letter to owners of private premises to request (improved) bike parking facilities
> ideas for small projects that can be done in this financial year
> BUG website

3) Bug Objectives for 2013

4) Council Update

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.

The meeting starts at 7.30 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.

The meeting starts at 7.30 pm and will finish around 9.00 pm.

The ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting is:

1. Confirm the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting
2. Present the financial report
3. Elect the new Committee of Management
4. Other business

All BUG members (which includes all subscribers to the BUG email list) are welcome to consider nominating for a position on the BUG committee.

The following positions are open for nomination:

• Convenor
• Deputy Convenor
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• 3 x Ordinary Members

For a description of the roles and duties associated with each position, please see the Moreland BUG Constitution or feel free to contact the current office bearers if you have any questions:

• treasurer@morelandbug.org
• secretary@morelandbug.org
• deputyconvenor@morelandbug.org
• convenor@morelandbug.org

Nominations must be made in writing to me by October 18 and must be signed by 2 other members of the BUG, using the Moreland BUG committee nomination form. Please email scanned nominations to secretary@morelandbug.org.

Please note that nominations will also be accepted on the night of the AGM!
Furthermore, I am happy to arrange for the other two signatories on the nomination form.

Julia Mischke.
Moreland BUG Secretary

Participating artists will be on hand to discuss their works on site, and the ride will conclude at RMIT Brunswick for the MoreArt launch party, also taking in the Artland exhibition of student works. Stick around for some complimentary nibbles and a drink to quench your thirst.

Meeting: 12:30pm at Coburg Station

Finishing: 3:30pm at the MoreArt Launchparty at RMIT Brunswick.

See the Squeaky Wheel for more info.

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.
]]> http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/09/713/feed 0 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/08/704 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/08/704#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:36:33 +0000 gcross http://www.morelandbug.org/?p=704 The next BUG meeting will be held tonight Thursday 23 August at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (681 Sydney Road, Brunswick – in the dining room next to the courtyard).

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from Moreland Council to answer at the meeting please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can be prepared.

Please be advised that VicRoads will be undertaking bridge maintenance works on the Heidelberg Road over Merri Creek from Tuesday 17 July until Friday 3 August 2012 between 7am and 3pm, weather permitting.

There will be some changes to traffic conditions. These include temporary lane closures and reduced speed limit. There will be some delays affecting pedestrians, vehicle traffic and cyclists during these works. Due to these bridge maintenance works, Merri Creek Trail between Heidelberg Road and Walker Street in Northcote will be closed on Tuesday 17 July to Wednesday 18 July and on Thursday 2 August to Friday 3 August 2012 between 8am to 4pm.

During this time all pedestrians and cyclists travelling towards St Georges Road will be diverted along Heidelberg Road Bridge, from Cunningham Street to Walker Street.

Signs have placed around the area advising pedestrians and cyclists of the detour. For more detour details refer to the detour map (PDF file).

The works have been designed so that residential amenity and business will not be adversely affected. It should be noted however that there may be minor noise associated with these bridge works.

Access to residential and business properties will remain available at all times and if restricted, for any reason, will be made available upon request to traffic controllers on site.

VicRoads regret any inconvenience caused while these essential bridge repairs are undertaken.

Should you have any queries regarding these bridge works, please contact Nusrat Islam from VicRoads on 03 9313 1366 (during business hours only).
]]> http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/07/703/feed 0 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/07/701 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/07/701#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:44:22 +0000 gcross http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/07/701 Works affecting traffic on the Upfield Shared Path
Brunswick Baths
16 July – 28 July, 2012
Between 9 am and 3:30 pm

Please be aware that works on the wall abutting the bike path are required as part of the renovations to the Brunswick Baths.

The path will NOT be closed but will be narrowed on the wall side so that cyclists going in opposite directions will not be able to cycle past each other. The sections of closure are short (around 10m) and works will only occur between the morning and evening peaks; and not every day (e.g. outside painting is weather dependent).

Please stop and/or give way if necessary and exercise patience and care.

There may be short delays; it may be an inconvenience; so allow extra time for your journey if you have a deadline to meet.

If you have any questions or problems, please email or call Nicholas Elliot (p: 9240 1294), or Gordon Blake, Traffic Engineer (p: 9240 1155).
]]> http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/07/701/feed 0 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/700 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/700#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:09:45 +0000 gcross http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/700 The next BUG meeting will be held this Thursday, June 28th at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (681 Sydney Road, Brunswick – in the dining room next to the courtyard).

The meeting starts at 7 pm. Food and drinks can be purchased there. Members and guests are welcome!

If you have any questions you would like Nicholas or Simon from council to answer at the meeting, please send them your question via email prior to the meeting so they can prepare themselves. Their email addresses are nelliot@moreland.vic.gov.au and sstainsby@moreland.vic.gov.au.
]]> http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/700/feed 0 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/699 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/699#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:11:54 +0000 gcross http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/699 As many of you would know, a riders rally is planned for next Thursday, June 21 to protest against the Baillieu Government’s decision to cut the Victorian bike budget to zero.

Bicycle Network Victoria and various BUGs are organising the event and the estimate is that there’ll be 3-4000 riders there on the day.

The rally is from 7.30 am to 8.30 am in front of Parliament House.

If you are not happy with the Baillieu Goverment’s decision, make your voice heard and come along to the rally. You can make your way into the city at your own leisure or join one of the organised rides. More details on the rally and various meeting points and times for rides can be found here.

Moreland BUG member Tim Read is organising a ride to the rally from Brunswick. We meet at Cafe L’Amour, 76 Lygon St. (next to Gelobar), Brunswick East at 7am and ride in together along Canning St.

And Anna has set up a Facebook event and so far 72 people are going. You can join here.

While some elements of the rally are still on the drawing board, a rough run sheet for the morning currently looks like this:

0730 – rally starts, Victorian Parliament steps, Spring St, Melbourne
0745 – we plan to unfurl a fabric bike path to symbolise the types of facilities that will now not be possible with zero funding. This “path” can be passed around overhead or perhaps symbolically laid!!
0815 – speech and pics
0830 – event ends

Hopefully we will have a good turn out so make sure you are coming along!
]]> http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/699/feed 0 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/698 http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/698#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:08:44 +0000 gcross http://www.morelandbug.org/2012/06/698 Here are the details for the next Moreland BUG ride:

Date: Saturday, 23 June 2012

When & Where to meet: 11am in front of the Noise Bar (on the corner of the Upfield Path and Albert Street, Brunswick)

Description: Ride south on the Upfield Bikeway, Capital City trail then Merri Creek bikeway to Dight’s Falls, then along the Yarra to the Childen’s Farm.
Minimal on-road, family friendly. There are some ups and downs on the path, the cafes at the Farm are a definite up!
Come and regard the goats, horses, chickens, geese, ducks…
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