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Bike North: Hills M2 Motorway - Cycle Access Denied -We Need Your Help

Hills M2 Motorway - Cycle Access Denied -We Need Your Help
Cyclists will be banned on the M2 westbound from Delhi Road to Beecroft Road from the end of January 2007.
The Hills M2 Motorway has been used by cyclists for ten years. On Friday 12 January 2007, […]

Vic: Cycle-way bid hailed

Cycle-way bid hailed - 27 June 2006
Pic: Cyclists Sam Marshall, Stuart Hill and Marcel Lema. Also refer to previous entry on this issue.
Cycling groups have hailed a plan to create weekend morning clearways on Beach Rd to prevent conflict between riders and motorists. But they warn the parking […]

Melb: Message from Beach Road Cyclists

To all Cyclists - Clearway on the World’s Premier Cycling Route
On any given weekend – even in the middle of winter – thousands of cyclists use Beach Road for training and social rides. For the past three years Beach Road Cyclists (BRC) – a group of racing, training and general cycling enthusiasts […]

Kyle Forth

Please read the story on this Canadian website: http://www.mokahousekills.com/

We should all strongly support Duane Forth in his families fight for justice. Please click the email link provided in the June update (or see below) and send a polite, powerful message to Len Kowalewich and Moka House.

Email: coffee@mokahouse.com
Subject: Kyle Forth

From ‘Moka House Kills” Update, June 8

“This […]

Get cycling on the agenda: TAC Road Safety site

The Victorian TAC Road Safety site has sections relating to Parents, Schools, Older Drivers, Motorcyclists and Fleet. Virtually all the bicycle relevant information on this site relates to parents instructing their children riding bikes. Now cyclists are legally road traffic, refer to our Australian Road Authorities and Bicycle Rules page.
Cyclists (unfortunately) have their own category […]

Unsporting behaviour?

The following mp3 is from Channel Nine’s “The Footy Show”, on May 25th 2006. It’s from about the 58min mark, and we’ll kindly spare you the visuals. There’s nothing wrong with a joke or the occasional off-colour remark, but these comments from Mr S. Newman are beyond the pale. As far as we know, no […]

WoJ Team for Amys Ride - Jan 7th 2006

For those in Melbourne and Victoria, who’s interested in organising a Wheels of Justice team or volunteering to help with Amys Ride in Geelong, 7th January 2006? Refer to further details via website: Amys Ride and the Amy Gillett Foundation
Australian Cyclist: Sporting Stars line up to support Amy Gillett Foundation Charity Ride
At Goat on last […]

WoJ August 26 Notes + News

Hi all, finally have the notes from August 26 tidied up, the top three preferred activities are,

1. WoJ Bikes on Car Roofs, Rally Drive Time for all States
2. Ghostbikes Project for Cities (Melb First)
3. Organise to align with selected peak bodies to advocate WoJ philosophy and aims

Refer to the pdf attachment hosted on WoJ […]

Messages from Melbourne’s Wheels Of Justice

I’ve finally typed up the messages from Saturday. As the ride was hastily organised only last week, we didn’t deliver the messages to Parliament. Instead we collected the bidons, and are keeping them safe until we plan further actions. If you bought along a bidon, and then collected it, please contact us and we’ll place […]

Messages from Sydney Wheels of Justice

Hi there!
Lee Rhiannon kept the messages from the rally and I only got them back via mail today. So here they are all typed up!
~ Phuong ~
‘Wheels of Justice’ Sydney - Messages

If this is an indication of justice - God help the generations after us.
It’s time to break up the “boys” club in the police […]

Update: Adelaide Wheels of Justice

Adelaide Wheels of Justice
Check here for Robs speech and pictures from the awesome ride in Adelaide! Don’t forget to register on the Wheels of Justice Supporters Page.
Speaking of SUPPORTERS - Ian’s family have no legal representation for the Royal Commission, see news article below. Calling on all members of the legal fraternity - please contact […]

BISA: Rally for the Humphrey family – messages on cyclists’ water bottles

Bicycle Institute of South Australia: Rally for the Humphrey family – messages on cyclists’ water bottles
At the rally, organisers asked you to bring one bike water bottle, write on it what you think, leave it on the steps of Parliament house. By the rally’s end, there were 300 water-bottles. Most bottles were opaque plastic, yellow […]

Justice For SA Cyclists

From Rob: WATER BOTTLES (BIDONS) THEIR SIGNIFICANCE TO OUR RIDE TODAY
Quote: Originally Posted by rooman
Bring water bottles with messages of your feelings in the injustice of the Humprhies case and the inadequacy of the law and motorists attitudes to cyclists. Make sure someone writes down the messages from the bottles and they are kept to […]

May 8: The Advertiser: Apology and 4000 cyclists stun family [08may05]

The Advertiser: Apology and 4000 cyclists stun family [08may05]
THE family of cyclist Ian Humphrey, killed in a hit-run in November, 2003, received an apology yesterday from Attorney-General Michael Atkinson in front of 4000 protesting cyclists outside Parliament House.
“As Attorney-General, I would like to apologise to Di Gilchrist and the Humphrey family for the outcome of […]

May 8: www.cyclingnews.com: Huge crowd turns out to commemorate Ian Humphrey

Sydney Wheels of Justice - Parliament House
Huge crowd turns out to commemorate Ian Humphrey
By John Stevenson. See the cyclingnews photos
More than 3000 people attended the Wheels of Justice rally in Adelaide, South Australia yesterday to commemorate the 2003 death of rider Ian Humphrey and protest against an Australian legal system that takes the deaths […]

May 8: Cyclists sick of hit and run carnage

Cyclists sick of hit and run carnage: Melbourne Indymedia
by Takver Sunday May 08, 2005 at 01:42 AM
On Saturday 7th May some 3,300 cyclists in four states protested the hit and run murder of cyclist, Ian Humphrey, in the Barossa Valley in 2003. A prominent Adelaide lawyer, Eugene McGee, was acquitted of causing death by […]

Wheels of Justice Photos

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Adelaide: see above
Adelaide photos + awesome short movie of crowd
Here are some pics from the adelaide meet. it was a great turn up, we blocked some traffic, made some noise,listened to lots of people and cheered and booed at the appropriate moments. Hopefully this will initiate change. keep on rollin’,
toto

Melbourne: ‘Marshalling the troops’ […]

‘Wheels of Justice’ happened in Sydney

About a hundred cyclists gathered today in Hyde Park for the Sydney ‘Wheels of Justice’ bicycle rally to commemorate the death of cyclists on the roads, in particular that of Ian Humphrey in South Australia. Cyclists were pushing for better driver education, more and safer bicycle lanes and paths, as well as respect and recognition […]

Rob’s Speech 7th May 2005, Parliament House, Adelaide

Rob’s Speech 7th May 2005, Parliament House, Adelaide
My name is Rob Lewis, and I represent Wheels of Justice. Our group is made up of ordinary, working, tax paying individuals who happen to ride bicycles. We have no political preferences or allegiances. We have been galvanised into action as a result of injustice and the lack […]

Wheels of Justice rally a great success, despite harassment by cobs

Wheels of Justice rally a great success, despite harassment by cobs. Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005: by Hugh Gene McGhee
Is there nothing better than being a cyclist in a writhing sea of angry cyclists? Depending on who you believe (The Advertiser, ABC, or Bike SA) it was between two and four thousand cyclists who […]


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