What we’re about
Social, leisurely 🚲 rides on quiet streets or separated paths, at a pace you can talk normally. Wear whatever is comfortable. Be yourself.
We're for people who use bikes to get from A to B. People of all ages, abilities, & identities who use all types of cycles. We are not lycra-clad cyclists who want to ride beside traffic doing 80km/h.
Think of us as trying to recreate the enjoyable experiences of riding in Copenhagen or Amsterdam (as on YouTube channels Bicycle Dutch and Not Just Bikes), but with cockatoos and kangaroos.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- Canberra Cargo Bikes Show and TellQueen Elizabeth Terrace, canberra
What's a cargo bike, how can they possibly change how I get around my neighbourhood, and bring me joy?
Cargo bikes make mundane trips to the shops, school drop-off, or hardware stores actually fun.
Come along to this gathering of cargo bike riders and passengers from Canberra Cargo Bikes Facebook group and Canberra by Bike, and ask us anything.
We'll have different types of models on display, from long-tail cargo bikes to shorter cycles, all designed to haul people, dogs, and heavy stuff.
Some of us have our bikes via subscriptions from Dutch Cargo or Sparque, others have bought them outright, while others have loaned one from the Canberra Electric Bike Library to help them decide which model might work for their household.
Regrettably, our bikes are not available for test rides on the day, but we're happy to arrange rides privately.
Cargo bikes are changing the world by replacing cars and making it fun to move around for short trips. Come and see what car-free or car-lite life looks like with people who are doing it.
- Marion Mahony Griffin and the Canberra plan (5km, easy)Henry Rolland Park, ParkesA$20.00
Celebrate 60 years of Lake Burley Griffin by learning the true story of how it features in the international design competition for Australia's national capital.
Featuring landscape architect and scholar of Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, Adj Assoc Prof Dianne Firth, and presented by Canberra by Bike and Pedal Power ACT.
Two people helped make the winning entry for the plans for Canberra in the early 20th century, but only one is continually minimised. Know her name: Marion Mahony Griffin.
Take this rare chance to slowly ride the water and land axis lines of the original Canberra plan, and learn what makes it unique. Discover what Marion Mahony Griffin and her husband and collaborator, Walter Burley Griffin, intended for the national capital, and why we have a National Triangle. See the Griffins' plans for what we today call Canberra. And learn why it was Marion whose genius and eye helped to render into reality the architectural designs of her more prominent colleagues, Frank Lloyd Wright and Burley Griffin.
Hear directly from Adj Assoc Prof Firth, a landscape architect, academic and artist, who did her doctorate on 'Behind the Landscape of Lake Burley Griffin: landscape, water, politics and the national capital’. Her current exhibition, Poetry of the Lakes, honours both Canberra's main lake, and Lake George/Weereewa in southern NSW, is showing at Belconnen Arts Centre until 1 Dec 2024.
Route: We'll meet at the barbecue area at Henry Rolland Park beside Lake Burley Griffin.
- Freddie Mercury Night RideThe Street Theatre, Canberra
Let's mark the untimely death at aged 40 of Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock stars of the 20th century, by riding around Lake Burley Griffin and playing his songs really loud.
If you can, dress up like Freddie (05/09/1946-24/11/1991) and we'll bring the JBL Partybox to blast out your favourite Freddie/Queen songs. (Here's one we prepared earlier during Halloween).
We'll meet outside the Street Theatre, then ride a loop around the Central Basin of Lake BG, and stop for a meal/drink at The Jetty. We return to the Street Theatre via Lawson Crescent, Sullivans Creek, and the ANU campus.
- “Club 27” Night RideThe Street Theatre, Canberra
Let’s mark all these musicians who died too young at 27 by rolling around Lake Burley Griffin and playing their songs really loud.
Mural by Jonathan Kis-Lev from left shows Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
If you can, dress up as one of them, and we'll bring the JBL Partybox to blast out your favourite songs by these artists. (For an idea about what to expect, here’s one we prepared earlier during Halloween).
We'll meet outside the Street Theatre, then ride a loop around the Central Basin of Lake BG, and stop for a meal/drink at The Jetty. We return to the Street Theatre via Lawson Crescent, Sullivans Creek, and the ANU campus.
