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Letters to the editor

We love your feedback and contributions for Ride On magazine. Email the team at rideon@bv.com.au

Feature letter

Claim your rights

Apr-May 2011

Dr John Tully wrote in the Feb-Mar Ride On: “I've given up commuting to work by bike . . . until such time as (1) motorists realise that they share the road with riders and (2) we have a network of on-road cycle paths . . .”

I suggest to John that motorists are only going to realise that they share the road with bicycle riders if we are on the roads, demanding our legal right of way at roundabouts, and shouting when we are treated as invisible...

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Peter Grasshopper, Loftus, NSW

Advertising in Ride On

Comments on ads in Ride On

Airline charges

A rider warns others to check fees for transporting bikes

Bad news

Inaccurate headline gives bike riders a bad name

Bikes and riding

The nuts and bolts of bike riding

Bikes on trains ban

Letters to Bicycle Network Victoria about the ban of bikes on trains in early 2008

Commuting

Hearing and riding

Concentration, not hearing, is required for riding

Helmets

The ever-contentious issue of bike helmets

Letters about lights

Always a subject of passionate debate. Also see our Light Up campaign page, our Lights section and our Lights Test section.

Love the ride

Celebrate the joy of riding

Make it better

Calls for improvement in bike facilities and in the way we ride

On the bike path

How's life in the bike path?

Out of the ordinary

Something different

Poetry

Ode to a bicycle and to Le Tour

Public bike hire schemes

Major cities around the world are adopting public bike hire schemes. Melbourne's is running and Brisbane's has just started. Will they be a success?

Ride On content

Comments on Ride On magazine

Riders behaving badly

Bike riders aren't always the good guys ...

Riding Clobber

Wardrobe contention and solutions for two-wheel travellers

Sharing the road

The sometimes difficult challenge of all road users happily sharing the space

Swanston St and the Copenhagen Lanes

A busy and contentious bike route in Melbourne

The road rules

Discussion and answers