This Cycling Tips post gives story, video and photos of a ride of 235km in 2011. This shows what to expect on the Melbourne Cup Alpine Challenge as we’ll travel most of this route, together with a start and finish in Wangaratta and a climb of Mt Buffalo.

The photos and video are worth a look as they are professional quality.

The video is superb and also features Malcolm Powell, an Australian cycling historian, who represented Australia in the 1962 Commonwealth Games. Malcolm retells the story of an amazing stage of the Centenary 1000 race in 1934 that travelled on some of the same roads we’ll be riding, however back in 1934 they were dirt tracks! It was truly epic stage .

We hope you’ll use these as motivation to get some hill training and join us in November.

Melbourne Cup Alpine Challenge will be an epic Bike for Bibles ride. Hope you can join us!

Join us for the Premier Bike for Bibles Ride in NSW

Sunday 23 – Sunday 30 September 2012

This will be another great adventure as we ride through the Golden Central West of NSW

ITINERARY:

Total Distance 863 km Average daily distance 108 km

JOIN US FOR ANOTHER GREAT BLUE LIZARD RIDE!

More Information:
Dave McCubben 02 9521 1506
Jim Blaxland 02 9525 8158    0414 532 250

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has given United Bible Societies (UBS), and national Bible Societies under this banner – including Bible Society Australia – consultative status with the UN agency.
“As an official partner of UNESCO, UBS is now entitled to participate in its meetings by invitation… UNECSO’s recognition of UBS’s competence in literacy work means that the Bible Societies will also be able to participate in the planning and execution of UNESCO’s literacy programmes,” said the most recent United Bible Societies newsletter.

One of the contributing strengths of UBS that assisted in gaining UNESCO recognition is believed to be the wide international reach of the Bible Society movement.

For more information see Bible Society Australia website: http://www.biblesociety.org.au/news/bible-society-literacy-programmes-gain-unesco-recognition

Here’s videos of some of the participants explaining why they did this…

You can organise your own ride with friends and people from your church during the months of April, May and June, and make a Tax Deductible Donation before the end of the financial year.

You might do short ride to the local coffee shop or a long weekend tour, or you might not even do a ride at all…

The main point is to make a donation before 30th June and receive a receipt for your tax deduction in time for this year’s tax return.

If you want to, you can register yourself at Towards the Goal website, and make a donation for fundraising under your own name.

Alternately, you can sponsor someone already registered on the Towards the Goal website under the End of Tax Year Ride.

Either way, you can enter your credit card and email address and instantly receive a receipt for your donation.

Please also forward this information onto your friends and people from church so that they too can make a donation and receive a tax deduction.

Please remember to take some photos and send us your story for the Bike for Bibles blog and Facebook page.

END OF FINANCIAL YEAR 2012 FUNDRAISING PAGE

We’ve just launched a new website for telling A history of Bike for Bibles – see: http://history.bikeforbibles.org.au.

If you’ve been involved as a rider, roadie or in some other capacity over the years, please feel free to contribute your stories and photos to this website.

This is a Bike for Bibles Community project. Its presently a blank canvas, but we hope in coming months we’ll all be able to relive some amazing rides and adventures!

Please assist by sharing your BFB story.

PURCHASE JERSEY

Our permanent facebook address is now: https://www.facebook.com/bikeforbibles

This complements our Twitter address: https://twitter.com/bikeforbibles

You can keep up with latest ride and Bike for Bibles information by liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter!