Category: Announcement

I couldn’t put it any better than Phineas and Ferb because we’re back.
We loved our time with the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, and can’t thank them enough for 10 great years.

However, the time has come for a new location and we’re thrilled to be able to move to share the Old Tip Shop site thanks to Resource Work Collective (RWC).

We will be opening on 16th February, with sessions running from 12-3pm.

This will be a major step forward for HBK. The great support from RWC means we have more shed space and storage, better conditions for working on bikes and better access for the public.
There will also be options to expand bike racking, add workstations, and to eventually open on more days of the week.
The space can be whatever you, the community, wants it to be.

We hope the new site, and greater visibility for what we do, will encourage more volunteers to join us in getting more bikes recycled, more skills shared and ultimately more people on bikes.

Please be sure to check the Upcoming Sessions information once we’re running again as we have to ensure that appropriately qualified chefs are available.

If you have any questions please contact us at hobartbikekitchen@gmail.com

So are you old enough remember this?

We’ll that’s not a very helpful segue into the story that Hobart Bike Kitchen is making plans to relocate.

We have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with The Wilderness Society, but it’s time for HBK to look for a new location.
Things are progressing well and while it’s not time for a public announcement we believe the new location is going to allow us to grow and offer more services that result in more bums on bikes.

If you’re interested in knowing more, especially if you’d like to be part of setting up the new site, then please get in touch. I expect you know the email is hobartbikekitchen@gmail.com

Bike love,
HBK

Hi everyone, we managed a couple of constrained Sunday Sessions after the first phase of the TWS building works.

However, it’s not possible to run sessions currently with the work that is being done.

The Wilderness Society have been wonderful hosts, and we’re in their debt.
We’re hopeful that the building works progress smoothly, and we’ll keep you posted on the progress and when we’ll be back to running sessions.

In the meantime, make sure you’ve got everything you need for riding in the dark or damp weather that we’ve got for the next couple of months sorted. It certainly no excuse to stop riding.

Lots of bike love, Hobart Bike Kitchen

Hi everyone, there’s going to be a few weekends without a Sunday Session.
There will be a session on Sunday 21st January, but after that there won’t be a session for a number of weeks.

Our fabulous hosts, The Wilderness Society, commence building works on the 22nd January, and while the works are underway access to the site is not possible.

The current advice is that initial works will last for approx. 6 weeks, and we hope to be back then.
However, as you know building works often have their own time lines and we can’t be 100% sure of when we will be back on site.

We did consider alternatives for running the sessions, and for taking donations, but the logistics just didn’t work out.

We’re hoping everything goes smoothly for TWS and look forward to seeing you soon.

It looks like we’ll have to come back for another go, but the Community Awards has been really valuable as feedback from our nominees and the Awards Australia process.
Anyway here is some evidence that we’re doing something that people value.

We’d also like to congratulate Bicycle Network Tas. on their win, and TBUG as a fellow finalist.

Hi everyone, it’s very pleasing to let you know that we are Semi Finalists in two categories of the Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards for 2023.

Congratulations! The nomination for Hobart Bike Kitchen has made it to the Semi-Finals in the Healthy Tasmania Health and Wellbeing Award,which forms part of the 2023 Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards.

Congratulations! The nomination for Hobart Bike Kitchen has made it to the Semi-Finals in the EPA Sustainability Award (Community),which forms part of the 2023 Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards.

Hopefully, we’ll go on to be Finalists, and possibly win, but what is more important to us is that you like what we do. Thanks for the nomination and Thanks for turning up, riding bikes and building a better community one bike at a time.

If you’d like to know more about the awards click here.

Brought to you by our friends at Bicycle Network

Tue 5 Sept Start time 10:00am to 11:30am Facilitator Sallie Burton Location Cornelian Bay – upper carpark, corner of Bell Street and Queens Walk, New Town.

Details If it’s been several years since you last rode a bike and you’d like to get back on but feel a bit nervous, then Back on your Bike is designed just for you. In small groups we will run through a bike skills refresher and some basic bike maintenance, before going for a short ride in either an on-road or off-road setting. There will be bikes available for those unable to bring their own, and participants can sign up for a free 3-month membership with Bicycle Network. This is a free event but you must register your attendance via the link below. Back on your bike is funded by the Tasmanian Government’s Healthy Tasmania Fund.

Register here

Or see all the information on what Bicycle Network have on https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/rides-and-events/womens-community/whats-on/

Brett from the Big Bike Film Night here; hey, I just wanted to contact you about our upcoming film festival screening in the Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre, at the Uni of Tasmania on Thursday 10th August, with this year’s collection of the world’s best cycling short movies.  

(The Hobart Uni Bar (350 metres away from our venue) will be open on the night until 6:30pm if you are looking to get together as a group for an informal catch-up/ pre-event drinks before our screening; much thanks to Justin McMullen and the team at Hobart Wheelers Dirt Devils Cycling Club for organising this).

Background Information

Our stellar 2023 collection is absolutely geared to inspire, with a breathtaking range of short cycling films that celebrate the fun, adventure, and inspiration that cycling enables, whatever your ride is; it has 10 films and plays for just over 2.5 hours (AND… has a bikepacking film set in Tasmania in the mix). ATTENDEE COMMENTS:-

• “The most inspiring set of short films you’re ever likely to see!”
• “Anyone into bikes will love these events… they are always brilliant – 11/10!!”
• “The BBFN is always a wonderful, eclectic, wacky mix of films and I love it!”

Our attached Summary details the array of inspiring tales/ films that is being showcased.

Every ticket purchased to attend a screening of The Big Bike Film Night Australia goes in the draw to WIN A TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND for you and a mate, including return flights for two, a self-guided tour of the wonderful West Coast Wilderness Trail Great Ride, thanks to our prize sponsors Ngā Haerenga Great Rides of New Zealand, Kiwi Journeys, and Great Journeys New Zealand.

I hope you can share the details of this event with your community, and I’m sure, like last year, local bike enthusiasts will enjoy this year’s biketastic ‘melting pot’ of cycling inspiration.

Date	Time	TAS Hobart	Ticket Booking Link	Facebook Event page
Thursday 10th August	7pm	Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania	https://www.trybooking.com/CHOSN	https://www.facebook.com/events/1627496137756610

If you have time, please watch the trailer link below, to get an understanding of some of the enticing films in this year’s line-up.  

The Big Bike Film Night 2023 Promo Trailer

https://bit.ly/Big_Bike_Film_Night_2023_Promo_Trailer

I really appreciate the time you have taken to help me with this, and I look forward to hearing from you if there is anything else I can do to help.

Pedal on!!!

Brett 

BRETT COTTER 

CURATOR | FILM PEDLAR | FOUNDER

M: +64 (0)21 748 441 | E: info@bigbikefilmnight.nz

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Last year we posted re the the paucity of cycling on the COP26 main event, this year I don’t know if much has changed inside. But outside of the event there are a range of cycling stories.

Something Egyptian from the city of Cairo.

Something from London.

Something from the UCI.

You can ride there from Cairo

Or you can make a proper statement on what cycling can mean for all of us and ride from Sweden, at the age of 72, ride through 17 countries and travel nearly 9000 kilometers.

Chapeau Dorothee Hildebrandt

Hi HBK friends here is some info. about upcoming bike film festival screening at the Stanley Bunbury Lecture Theatre, U of Tas, on Tuesday 27th September that brings the world’s best cycling short films together for one night.  

It’s geared to inspire, with an absolutely breath-taking range of short cycling films that celebrate the fun, adventure, and inspiration that cycling enables, whatever your ride is; and this year’s collection has 12 films, runs for just over 2 hours and 20 minutes.

The summmary details the tapestry of inspiring tales/ films that will be showcased, AND… this year every ticket purchased to attend a screening of The Big Bike Film Night goes in the draw to WIN A CYCLING HOLIDAY to New Zealand thanks to the Presenting Partner Ngā Haerenga Great Rides of New Zealand. 

Date	Hobart	Ticket Booking Link	Facebook Event page
Tuesday 27th September, 7pm	Stanley Burbury Lecture Theatre, UofTas	https://www.trybooking.com/CABHV	https://www.facebook.com/events/1164718077656424/

If you have time, please watch the trailer link below, to get an understanding of some of the enticing films in this year’s line-up.  

The Big Bike Film Night Promo Trailer

https://youtu.be/6tZbhV_rkR8