Merri-bek BUG

The Brunswick Neighbourhood House is running courses in bicycle maintenance.

The workshop happens over three Sundays (11am – 4pm), is hands-on and will include:

• adjusting your bike to suit your height
• maintenance on brakes and gears
• repair and prevention of punctures
• bearing overhaul
• identifying specialist repair needs

The first workshop will be held on September 2, 9 and 16.
The second workshop will be held on November 11, 18, 25.

See the attached flyer for more information or call the Brunswick Neighbourhood House on 9386 9418.

The August Moreland BUG meeting is on!

Please join us in the back room of Caffe Mingo (600 Sydney Rd, Brunswick) at 7:30pm this Thursday 23rd August, and help us plan world domination for the humble bicycle, starting right here in Moreland…

A few of us usually meet beforehand for dinner or a cake and coffee, all welcome to join us from 7pm.

Just a reminder that the Moreland BUG screening of “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” takes place TONIGHT (Thurs 16th) at the Brunswick Velodrome – BBQ from 7pm (vegie and non-vegie options available), film starts 7:30pm.

We have about 30 people on the RSVP list and room for about 80, so round up your friends and family and RSVP to Anna or to Rod.

The Brunswick Velodrome is in Harrison St, East Brunswick (enter from Donald St).
The velodrome is just off the Merri Creek Bike Path, about half-way between CERES and Moreland Road.

The July Moreland BUG meeting is on this Thursday, July 26 at 7.30pm, in the back room of Caffe Mingo, 600 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.

Anna and a couple of others usually get there at 7 to have dinner before the meeting.

Remember, this meeting we'll be electing our interim Committee of Management to take us through to AGM season. Those nominees again:

• Convenor: Anna Strempel
• Deputy Convenor: Ross Millward
• Secretary: Graeme Cross
• Treasurer: Geoff Lewis

We'll try to keep the official part of the evening as short as possible so as not to put us all to sleep; an agenda will be circulated on the BUG mailing list before the meeting.

The belated and postponed June meeting will be held in the back room of Caffe Mingo, 600 Sydney Rd Brunswick this Thursday 5th July.

7:30pm start (come at 7 if you want to join us for dinner, at restaurant prices).

This month's BUG ride is to ride to the annual World Refugee Day rally, which takes place this Sunday (June 17) from 12 noon.

The rally meets at the Melbourne Museum, cnr Nicholson & Gertrude St, Carlton and heads across to the Fitzroy Town Hall to meet up with the Multicultural Arts Victoria Emerge Festival – a fun event stacked with food, music and market stalls from all over the world.

The plan is to meet at CERES (8 Lee St, East Brunswick) at 11am; we'll have plenty of time for a coffee and muffin, then we can jump on our bikes and head down to the museum to join the rally. It's a peaceful affair so will be family-friendly – there's usually even balloons. After checking out the festival and filling our bellies we can head over to Yarra Bend Park for a leisurely ride home along the trail.

For more info, visit the Refugee Action Collective website.

The Department of Infrastructure is undertaking a review of bus services in Melbourne, this is a staged process and Melbourne has been split into regions for the review. The Hume region is one of the first to be reviewed and incorporates the northern parts of Moreland.

The Moreland BUG has been asked to comment on services in the north of Moreland.

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Just a reminder that this month's meeting is fast approaching and will be held this Thursday night (24th) at the Glenroy RSL, meeting from 7:30-9pm with dinner from 7pm in the bistro for those who'd like to join us (bistro prices).

For those not familiar with Glenroy, the RSL is at 186 Glenroy Road, Glenroy.

For those who would like to ride up together, we could meet out the front of Brunswick Town Hall again at 6:15pm and head up from there, either riding all the way or riding to Broadmeadows train line depending on how people feel/rain etc.

We had thirteen riders for the May BUG ride yesterday.

We started at CERES and rode:

• Along the Merri Creek path to Rushall Station
• The Capital City trail along the Linear Park, past the Zoo and down to the Moonee Ponds path
• Into Docklands (for a coffee)
• Down to, and then along, along the light rail shared path to Port Melbourne
• Along the beach path from Port Melbourne to Beacon Cove and on to Westgate Park
• Through Westgate Park to the river punt

The punt across the Yarra River is running on weekends and public holidays and costs $3 for anyone over the age of 10.

We caught the river punt (in two stages, as the punt only holds 12 people and there was a group of riders already there) to Newport and rode along the bay to Williamstown.

We finished the ride with fish & chips in Williamstown.

After Williamstown, some people caught the train home while others rode back via Footscray Rd and along the Moonee Ponds bike path – Capital City trail.

See you next month!

The monthly Moreland BUG ride is on Sunday May 20th at 10am.

The plan is to ride across to Williamstown:

• Take the Capital City trail to Docklands/Southbank
• Down the light rail shared path to Port Melbourne (for a coffee stop)
• Along the boulevard, through Westgate Park
• Across the Yarra River on the Punt to Williamstown for lunch

There is then the option of riding back or catching the train home.

Meeting point: Ceres Café, 8 Lee St, Brunswick East at 10am.