Hard data is hard to come by but talk to anyone with close links to cycling and they’ll tell you there are more bikes on Whanganui’s streets and shared pathways. The Whanganui Bicycle Users Group (BUG) advocates for cycling in Whanganui. It is committed to building a strong cycling community while increasing cycle awareness and […]

Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s no doubt that the number of people riding bikes around Whanganui is increasing. We’re seeing a new breed of cyclist – one whose priority is leisure, health, transport or all three, with no lycra in sight. Many of them are getting off the road and on to the growing […]

A group of eight people, some of whom hadn’t been on a bike for decades, have unexpectedly become staunch cheerleaders for Whanganui’s shared pathways. They’re participants in Cycle Forward, a national pilot programme for people with arthritis being trialled in Whanganui. To read more, got to the Whanganui Chronicle

Whanganui’s Community Bike Park is up for a national award, and Sport Whanganui sees it as a big victory for members of the community who helped behind the scenes. The project has been nominated in community impact category in Sport New Zealand’s Sport and Recreation Awards. Read the rest of the article on the Whanganui […]

Bikes in schools cycle track officially opened at Keith St School in Whanganui “Who can ride a bike?” Heaps of hands belonging to students sitting on the light green grass of the Keith St School field shoot up into the air. “Who wants to learn how to ride a bike?” Fewer hands are raised. “That’s […]

Record numbers turned out in Whanganui for the annual national Go By Bike Day. Volunteers were cooking and dishing up free pancakes at the Cornmarket Reserve on Wednesday morning for people who arrived by bike. Lyneke Onderwater, of the Whanganui Bicycle Users Group, said 85 people turned up during the two-hour breakfast session. “I’m very […]

So many people want to see Whanganui’s newest bridge installed that the Whanganui District Council has to work on a detailed crowd plan, says project manager Rick Grobecker. The 130m-long pedestrian and cycle bridge is part of the Mountains to Sea/Nga Ara Tuhono cycleway, moving cyclists to the Whanganui River’s west bank for the final […]

A pilot programme to encourage people with arthritis to make cycling part of their daily lives will be launched in Whanganui. The Cycle Forward programme is being launched by Arthritis New Zealand and Whanganui District Council on Wednesday, February 20. “We’re absolutely thrilled to be coming to Whanganui to launch this programme, which is the […]

Check out the events for February here.