Tracy has been running the community bike ride for 8 years and it has been a very popular family-oriented activity. It is a community event for exercise and cycling awareness and how to stay safe as a cyclist. This year it will be running differently due to COVID restrictions. It will run over a 2-week period along the Wollondilly Walking Track. Participants need to register online and there is a short quiz if people want to go into the draw to win one of 10 helmets.
Participants can do their ride at a time and day of their choice and do the length of ride they want. They just need to take some pictures and upload them to the council events page to prove they have done the ride. Everyone gets a bag of goodies once they have finished.
Registrations have just opened and there are 75 participants so far. Tracy will be at the Water Works on the 2 Sundays so the participants can show the photos they have taken, and she will give them the bags of goodies which include a water bottle and bike belt.
The Big Merino is also lit up and decorated in yellow this week for National Road Safety Week which ends this weekend. “Drive so others Survive” is the competition being run for this awareness week to win one of two $100 fuel vouchers.
Another competition coming up soon is a video competition about looking after your mates. Tracy and the head of Hume police will be talking to youth about what they believe are issues with youth these days – driving while texting, speeding and other issues.
