Upcoming Events
Discover what’s on with Pedal Power ACT!
From Easy Social Rides and Social Nights to skills workshops and advocacy events, there’s something for every cyclist in Canberra.
Stay connected and be part of our vibrant cycling community.
Events
Beginner Bike Maintenance Workshop
New to bike maintenance or keen to feel more confident looking after your ride? This hands-on beginner workshop is the perfect place to start.
Whether you ride every day or just on weekends, you’ll learn the essential skills to keep your bike running smoothly, safely, and efficiently. Our friendly facilitators will guide you through practical, easy-to-follow techniques you can use at home or on the road.
You’ll learn how to:
Understand the key parts of your bike
Pump tyres and find the right pressure
Clean and lubricate your chain
Spot early signs of wear and prevent problems
Make simple gear and brake adjustments
Fix a puncture with confidence
Pedal Power Social Nights: Cycling France: From Planning to the Peloton
Thinking about cycling in France but not sure where to start? This Pedal Power Social Night Bella Molloy shares practical, experience-based tips on planning a cycling trip in France, from choosing routes and navigating roads to travelling with your bike and understanding local cycling culture. The session also covers how to experience the Tour de France in person, including where to go and how to make the most of race day. A must-attend for anyone dreaming of cycling in France
Intermediate Bike Maintenance Workshop
Ready to take your bike skills to the next level? This intermediate workshop is designed for riders who want to go beyond the basics and gain confidence working on the key mechanical components of their bike.
Perfect for regular riders, commuters, or anyone looking to better understand their bike, this hands-on session will guide you through advanced maintenance and adjustments to keep your ride smooth, safe, and efficient.
You’ll learn how to:
Understand bike geometry and fit
Replace components such as stems
Service headsets, hubs, and bottom brackets
Maintain and bleed hydraulic brakes
Cycling City Cruise with Pedal Power ACT
Enjoy an afternoon out for all ages and all kinds of riders. Join the Cycling City Cruise, organised by Pedal Power ACT as part of Cyclonats 2026. It's a slow-paced approved ride for everyone, designed to showcase the amazing variety of human-powered vehicles. Make it a spectacle. Bring your e-bike, road bike, commuter bike, unicycle, penny-farthing, BMX, mountain bike, cargo bike, recumbent trike or whatever you ride!
Fancy Women's Ride 2026! 🩷
The Fancy Women’s Ride returns in 2026, bringing colour, confidence and community back to the streets. Join a joyful, inclusive bike ride celebrating women and everyone who rides in solidarity because visibility matters, on the road and in public life. Dress up, decorate your bike, and ride with us for fun, connection and a powerful message of change 🩷
Pedal Power Annual General Meeting
The AGM is a great opportunity to hear updates from the Board, learn more about what’s ahead for Pedal Power, and have your say on the future of cycling advocacy in the ACT.
All members are welcome to attend.
More details to come soon!
Big Skills for Small Bikes - January Holidays
Course at a glance
The course runs Monday - Friday 9:30am - 10:15am or 10:30-11:15am
The course is designed to teach adults how to teach cycle skills to their children. Parents/carers must actively participate.
The course is targeted at children aged 3 – 8 years.
Maximum two children per adult. Individual tickets need to be bought for each child.
Participating children must bring their own balance or pedal bike and Australian standards helmet.
Participating adults do not need bikes.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/big-skills-for-small-bikes-jan-2026
Course details
To build lifelong cycling habits we need to teach children to ride when they are very young. However, the reality is that many parents don’t have the skills or time to help their kids get started!
Big Skills for Small Bikes is a learn to ride course for younger children, which focuses on teaching parents and carers how to get their kids riding confidently and safely.
This is a beginner course best suited to kids who are not yet riding on their own unaided.
The program uses a curriculum developed by a Cycling Australia coach and is targeted toward parents and carers with children aged 3 – 8 years. Adults attend the training sessions with the children and are provided with resources to empower them to continue to teach and support their child to develop bike skills after they have completed the course.
The course has been developed due to community demand for learn-to-ride programs for pre-school and lower primary aged children.
💛 Need a little help to join this course?
We believe everyone should have the chance to ride! If cost is a barrier, you may be eligible for a subsidised spot through our Pedal It Forward program.
👉 Apply here: Pedal It Forward Application Form
Pedal It Forward helps Canberrans experiencing financial hardship access our cycling programs – because cycling should be for everyone!
Pedal Power Social Night Christmas Party!
Let’s wrap up the year in style! ✨
Bring your picnic rug, your favourite food and drinks, and join us for a relaxed evening by the lake — full of good company, laughter, and festive cheer.
📅 Tuesday, 16 December
🕔 5 – 8 pm
📍 Lennox Gardens
This year, our Kris Kringle is all about sustainability! Bring a gift with a story: something handmade, pre-loved, or found second-hand. It’s a fun way to share, reuse, and celebrate the season with meaning.
Here’s to another wonderful year of riding together. See you at Lennox Gardens! 🚲💫
Social Rides Christmas Party!
Date: Monday, 8 December
Join us for this year’s Social Rides Christmas Party on Monday, 8 December at Birragai Café and Kangara Waters Hall. Enjoy a relaxed lunch outdoors, followed by a free concert featuring performances from fellow riders. Birragai Café will offer a selection of main meals and alternating desserts, with full details and pricing available via the ticket link. Coffee and soft drinks will be available for purchase, and BYO can be arranged with advance notice.
Birragai Cafe are again offering a 4-option main meal, with 2 sweets served alternatively as well. Further details of the meals, costs and payment method are available at the following ticket link: https://events.humanitix.com/social-rides-christmas-party-2025
RSVP and pay via the ticket link by COB 2 December.
Cycling Without Age
On Saturday 29 November, Pedal Power has free rides for older less mobile Canberrans in our Danish trishaws pedalled by our volunteer Pilots. It’s all about cycling slowly to sense the environment, to chat with people along the way, to tell stories, and to reach across generations. 🚲✨
Sign up here:
https://calendly.com/pedalpower-support/cycling-without-age
So come along and bring an older parent or friend or a grandchild you'd like to take for a gentle ride around beautiful Lake Ginninderra. It’s the perfect chance to slow down, reconnect, and make memories together.
Cycle More: Class 5
Ready to level up your cycling? Cycle More is designed for adults and teens who can already ride but want to build confidence navigating shared paths, quiet roads, and traffic. Perfect for commuting, touring, or just riding for fun and fitness, this supportive five-week course will help you ride further, safer, and with ease.
Pedal Power Social Nights: November
Daring the Outback
"For the past thirty years, a small cycling club in Broken Hill, the Silver City Bush Treadlers, has organised an outback, mid-year ‘Dare’ bike ride which raises money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, now closing in on one million dollars. Derek has taken part in the last four ‘Dare’ bike rides and will talk about the character of these rides, including the outback environments, history, the operation of grazing properties and the camaraderie of cyclists on the track."
Cycle More: Class 4
Ready to level up your cycling? Cycle More is designed for adults and teens who can already ride but want to build confidence navigating shared paths, quiet roads, and traffic. Perfect for commuting, touring, or just riding for fun and fitness, this supportive five-week course will help you ride further, safer, and with ease.
Two Wheels to Adventure: Ride around the lake
Pedal Power ACT is proud to be leading a ride following the National Library of Australia's talk 'Two wheels to adventure: Tony Wheeler and Daniel Oakman on bikes and why we love them'.
Following the talk, we will be inviting all attendees to join us on a ride around beautiful Lake Burley Griffin. Register your interest below to take part in the ride.
Prior to the ride, join Tony Wheeler (founder of Lonely Planet) and historian Dr Daniel Oakman in conversation with the Library’s Rebecca Fleming as they draw on the incredible Library collection to discuss all things cycling.
Pedal Power 50th Anniversary Celebration Ride
Pedal Power’s first protest ride in 1974 helped shape Canberra’s cycling future. Fifty years later, we’re riding from Woden to Civic to show the ACT Government that separated bike lanes are vital for a liveable, sustainable city.
Join us for this group ride to celebrate 50 years of advocacy in the ACT! 🚲
Cycle More: Class 3
Ready to level up your cycling? Cycle More is designed for adults and teens who can already ride but want to build confidence navigating shared paths, quiet roads, and traffic. Perfect for commuting, touring, or just riding for fun and fitness, this supportive five-week course will help you ride further, safer, and with ease.
Cycle More: Class 2
Ready to level up your cycling? Cycle More is designed for adults and teens who can already ride but want to build confidence navigating shared paths, quiet roads, and traffic. Perfect for commuting, touring, or just riding for fun and fitness, this supportive five-week course will help you ride further, safer, and with ease.
Cycle More: Class 1
Ready to level up your cycling? Cycle More is designed for adults and teens who can already ride but want to build confidence navigating shared paths, quiet roads, and traffic. Perfect for commuting, touring, or just riding for fun and fitness, this supportive five-week course will help you ride further, safer, and with ease.
Spokes and Sustainability: A New Vision for Canberra
Event description
Spokes and Sustainability: A New Vision for Canberra
Join us for a thought-provoking forum hosted by Pedal Power and the ACT Greens, exploring Canberra’s future as a leading cycling city.
Spokes and Sustainability will bring together diverse voices to discuss bold ideas, practical solutions, and what’s needed to realise a more bike-friendly, liveable, and sustainable Canberra.
Our panel includes:
Paris Lord, Canberra by Bike
Doris Voorbraak, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Netherlands
Andrew Braddock MLA, ACT Greens spokesperson for Transport
The discussion will be facilitated by Stephen Hodge, Director of National Advocacy at We Ride Australia.
This is a free public event with catered food provided, but places are limited - please register to secure your seat!
Pedal Power Social Nights: October
On 1 May 2025 Kevin Graham landed at Heathrow airport in London to start a cycling adventure in England and France. Across four months, 89 stops, three ferry trips and 3,200km of cycling, Kevin found joy, knowledge, challenges, opportunities, fun, magnificent vistas and the allure of the open road.
At the next Pedal Power Social Night on 21 October at the Canberra Southern Cross Club in Woden, Kevin will share his story from the roads and paths of England and France.
National Ride2Work Day
Canberra, get ready to roll! 💨🚴♂️
National Ride2Work Day is back on Wednesday 15 October! Join thousands of riders nationwide as we turn the morning commute into the best part of the day. Fresh air, big smiles, and a city buzzing with bikes – what’s not to love? 💛
📅 Save the date + Register for FREE here
🛠️ Pump your tyres
🌞 Get ready for an unforgettable ride to work
Full details dropping soon – but trust us, you won’t want to miss this. 🚲🔥
Cycle Well: Class 5
Haven’t ridden in years or starting from scratch? Cycle Well is the perfect course for adult beginners ready to build their cycling skills in a safe, supportive environment. Over five Sundays, our qualified instructors and friendly volunteers will help you gain the confidence to get rolling. Bikes available for hire if needed – all you need is an approved helmet and a willingness to give it a go!
Cycle Well: Class 4
Haven’t ridden in years or starting from scratch? Cycle Well is the perfect course for adult beginners ready to build their cycling skills in a safe, supportive environment. Over five Sundays, our qualified instructors and friendly volunteers will help you gain the confidence to get rolling. Bikes available for hire if needed – all you need is an approved helmet and a willingness to give it a go!
Cycle Well: Class 3
Haven’t ridden in years or starting from scratch? Cycle Well is the perfect course for adult beginners ready to build their cycling skills in a safe, supportive environment. Over five Sundays, our qualified instructors and friendly volunteers will help you gain the confidence to get rolling. Bikes available for hire if needed – all you need is an approved helmet and a willingness to give it a go!
Handlebars of Happiness: Stories About Cycling 🚲✨
Join us for an evening of inspiration, connection, and a dash of adventure!
Pedal Power and Canberra by Bike presents Handlebars of Happiness, a storytelling event celebrating the joys, challenges, and unforgettable moments of life on two wheels.
🗓 Wednesday 24 September
📍 Badger & Co, ANU Campus
💵 $10 (includes canapés)
Hear from:
🌟 Bernadette Hince – as she shares her extraordinary 13-year journey cycling to every Canberra suburb in alphabetical order.
🌟 Robin Brown – recounting his mother’s epic 8,000 km ride across Europe in 1939, against the backdrop of a world on the brink of war.
Whether you’re a seasoned cyclist, a weekend rider, or just love a good story, this evening promises to spark your sense of adventure and leave you smiling.
👉 Come for the stories. Stay for the community.
Cycle Well: Class 2
Haven’t ridden in years or starting from scratch? Cycle Well is the perfect course for adult beginners ready to build their cycling skills in a safe, supportive environment. Over five Sundays, our qualified instructors and friendly volunteers will help you gain the confidence to get rolling. Bikes available for hire if needed – all you need is an approved helmet and a willingness to give it a go!
Cycle Well: Class 1
Haven’t ridden in years or starting from scratch? Cycle Well is the perfect course for adult beginners ready to build their cycling skills in a safe, supportive environment. Over five Sundays, our qualified instructors and friendly volunteers will help you gain the confidence to get rolling. Bikes available for hire if needed – all you need is an approved helmet and a willingness to give it a go!
Social Nights: Mulligans Flat Woodlands Sanctuary: History & Happenings
Mulligans Flat Woodlands Sanctuary is the largest Yellow Box, Blakeys Red Gum Grassy Woodland in public ownership in Australia. It is free of feral animals and protected by an extensive predator proof fence. Located in the north of the ACT where Pedal Power members often cycle the fringes but can also cycle through the Sanctuary and have coffee at Wildbark Cafe.
The volunteers' presentation will include the history of the area, why the Sanctuary was established, how it is managed and what is happening. It will also give details of what folk can expect when visiting the Sanctuary. Questions and discussion will be welcome following the presentation.
Social Nights: Cycling the Sun Route: An Adventure from Prague to Copenhagen with John Widdup
This cycling adventure follows the EuroVelo 7 “Sun Route” but with a twist! In May–June 2024, John and his group of five set out from Prague, chasing not just the northern sun but also their passions. They detoured from the main route to discover hidden gems, experience local culture, and make the ride uniquely their own.
John’s presentation will cover everything from sourcing second-hand e-bikes and standard bikes, to navigating riding conditions, securing bikes, and staying well-fed and well-rested on the road. With flexible accommodation booked on the go (no camping this time!), it’s a practical deep dive into how to plan, and enjoy, a long-distance cycling trip.
Whether you're dreaming of your own cross-country ride or just love a good travel yarn, come along for the stories, the sights, and the inspiration.