Sydney talk: 'Australia's Rich Cycling History', 3/4/14

[marc2131]

Admission is free. Places need to be book via Eventbrite.com
Several BNA forum members (JohnJ, Saro and Marc2131) will be displaying their vintage bikes.

Jim Fizpatrick
Author of Wheeling Matilda
Thu 3 April
Redfern Town Hall, 6:30pm


The talk will focus on the subject matter of his book
- the history of cycling in Australia.

[Saro28]

pics to follow

[Saro28]

Bike display, pic's displayed and Author Jim Fitzpatrick with Marc, Peter and me. A very informative talk by Jim about early days of cycling across Australia. Last pic taken by JohnJ

[marc2131]

About 80 people turned up for the talk held on Thurs 3 April. The event was held at the Redfern Town Hall and was organized by Bike Sydney and the City of Sydney Council. The convener of the event was David Borella of Bike Sydney.

Photo with Australian cycling historian Jim Fitzpatrick, author of 'Bicycle and the Bush', first published in 1980.
L-R: Andy W, John J, Jim Fitzpatrick, Lindsay M and Marc R.


Andy enjoying photos of DHBC racing from the 1950s and 1960s.




DHBC historians explaining the intricacies of vintage bikes

[jonbays]

Great pics really sorry I missed it.

[utedeej]

It does look like there was a bunch of interesting bikes and pics, and some interesting discussion to be had. Nice work guys.

[bigfriendlyvegan]

You can catch up on some recent articles on BNA about Jim Fitzpatrick here and here.

[scratchman]

looked like an interesting night, let's hope there's more to come, there's enough interest to justify it.