Cheeky Transport

Surly Recall

We got this email from the Australian Surly wholesaler. It applies to complete Surly-specced Truckers and Crosschecks, equipped with cantilever brakes, not vbrakes

Dirt Works Australia would like to advise you of a voluntary recall we have initiated involving the Surly Crosscheck and Long Haul Trucker bicycles.

Some bicycles may have been supplied without the straddle cable catch hook.

We have the hook kits in stock and will be shipping them to you over the next week.

Please advise your customers to cease riding these bicycles and return them to you for the catch hooks to be fitted.

We apologise for this and hope that we can get everyone back on their bikes as soon as possible..

Fringe Festival Projector Bike

We’re sponsoring Projector Bike as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival -

Projector Bike invites you to come with us on a tour through the back lanes and byways of the inner west.

By night we will take to the streets with a mobile projection rig and sound system that will illuminate the walls and the tell tales of life in the city.

We will be taking two tours each night of the inner west and projecting video works from local artists on the buildings and back streets of Newtown.

So grab your fixie, mountain bike, street machine, pub racer or BMX as we go searching for the secrets that this city has to offer.

The ride will take approx 60 mins and stop at five different locations.

http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/shows/projector-bike

nsw cyclocross

check out this race report from last weekends event at Unanderra in Wollongong from the dudes who put on the 3 race series in melbourne (last race this weekend!)

http://dirtydeedscx.blogspot.com/

Rouleur Issue 19 – Just Arrived.

We’ve just got the latest issue of Rouleur Magazine, Issue 19. It’s 148 pages with a profile of master frame-builder Ron Cooper; an exclusive look at some of the best racing photography ever taken in Britain; an interview with living legend Bernard Hinault; the second part of our series on the life of a young aspiring rider – as well as images from world-renowned photographer Nadav Kander – All for $25.

We’ve still got a few copies of the otherwise sold out 2010 Grand Tour edition, #18, available.

Paris Brest Paris 2011 Information Night

DATE: Thursday 19 August 2010
TIME: from 6pm for dinner and drinks, then 7:30pm for presentations and Q&A session

LOCATION: Harts Pub, cnr Gloucester & Essex St, The Rocks (nearest train stations are Wynyard & Circular Quay)

 

 

The biggest social gathering we’ve had in NSW for a long time!

 

Even if you’ve no intention of riding the PBP it’s worth attending this great social event.

 

Randonneur 5000 Presentations

 

This is the highest award that Audax has to offer and very few Australians have earned this medal.  Come along and support those randonneurs who will be presented with their medals on the evening, so that they will receive the honour they deserve.

 

Everyone is welcome: members, non-members, family and friends.

 

The agenda will also include:

• guest speakers
• latest information from the Australian PBP Committee
• clarification of qualification requirements and process
• an opportunity to speak with PBP anciens and anciennes
• meet other prospective PBP 2011 participants
• Q&A session… your chance to get answers to the questions you may have been afraid to ask

If you have not already done so, please register your intention to attend (and advise how many in your party) so that Harts can make sure there is enough food for all of us.

 
RSVP ramhkd@yahoo.com.au or 02 9476 5310 by 16 August.

Maintenance Courses This Week and Next..

We’ve got a couple of spots left for Maintenance Classes this week and next. We can’t teach you how to use every tool in the Park Master Mechanic Kit, but we can help with the following:

Wednesday August 11. Gears – Change a cable and adjust rear gears. Barrel adjusters.

Wednesday August 18. Brakes - Change a cable and fit/adjust v brake pads. Barrel adjusters.

Courses run 6.30-8pm for $50. Full payment required up-front for a booking.

Our courses are small, hands-on, so you can really learn how to do things (and remember them). We focus the course on the needs and bikes of the attendees.

thank you

Our mate James (“digi-whizzkid”) supplied us with some new home brew on the weekend that i think was described as an English bitter, not a style i am familiar with or thought i would enjoy but the advice to drink very cold appealed.

Who would have thought that something in a fairly ugly plastic bottle could taste so good. Thanks a bunch James, warmed us up for the ride home on this appalling Monday night.

mmmmm

Aaron and Jacqui Hit The Road..

Aaron and Jacqui are hitting the road today, starting their trans-continental global touring odyssey. If you read our site regularly, you’d be familiar with their beautiful photos, beautiful bikes and previous adventures so they go with best wishes from the whole Cheeky family.

We plan to ride our bikes from the west Pacific Ocean to the east Atlantic Ocean. We’ll start on the shores of Jervis Bay, Australia and with a few assisted sea crossings, cycle to the west coast of Ireland via Asia and Europe. Our specific destination is open and the time frame is flexible.

You can follow them on their site.

ATTENTION!

Our friend Adrian gave us the heads up about this. See you there.

Hi ppls,

If you read the papers, you’ll probably have heard the new cycleways have been getting a lot of bad press.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/business-fury-at-bike-paths/story-e6freuzi-1225898703757
This is a bit of a flash mob event aimed at targeting a proposed anti-cycleway rally on at the same time. i.e. as reported today:  “Angry business owners are demanding the council rip up the cycleway and residents have called for a rally at Sydney Town Hall at 6pm on Tuesday to protest against the council’s decision.”
See: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/on-your-bike-clover/story-e6freuy9-1225899453480

We’d like to show strength in numbers. Please come along and invite people within your cycling networks?

Cheers

Adrian

Support the Sydney Cycleway Network Rally

Head to town hall 6pm Tuesday to show our support for future plans to introduce a people friendly cycleway network. It also coincides with an Alan jones inspired protest that is planned for the same time.
http://www.sydneycyclist.com/events/support-the-sydney-cycleway

Power grips back in stock

Nick’s been using these on his bike for a few years and thinks they’re a great option if you’re looking for an alternative to cleats or toe-cages. They’re $60 a pair for the standard length.

Powergrips are so brilliant, so sublime in their simplicity and economy of material, so superior in function and practicality, that it is a crime they are not standard equipment on all new mid and entry level mountain bikes, hybrids and city bikes. – Practical Pedal

Powergrips are durable, cheap, and effective. The inch-wide webbing straps won’t scratch up your Manolo Blahniks’ the way regular toeclips will; they let you move your foot around on the pedal as comfort demands, and a twist of the foot instantly binds or releases them. They have all the advantages of both toe clips and clipless pedals with none of the downsides. – Momentum Magazine

The most underrated bicycle accessory on this or any other planet. – Rivendell