Trail training for Oxfam walk
In January, the O’Keefe Rail Trail played host to Captain Walksalot and the Blister Sisters - four nurses from Bendigo Health who are training for the Oxfam Trailwalker in April. The 100 km walk over [...]
Christmas ride to Axedale finishes the year
A small group set off from Lake Weroona last Sunday on a festive ride to Axedale for lunch. With those who met us out there, we have nine at Axedale Tavern for lunch. The food [...]
Heathcote – action city
It's all go in Heathcote at the moment. The council's contractors are busy with the town section of the trail, and the Friends are preparing old station sites for their new signs. Trail blazing: [...]
Exploring Melbourne’s inner trails
Members and friends explored Melbourne on a recent July Sunday, via its inner trail network. With a starting point on the Capital City Trail at the Morell Bridge South Yarra, ride Coordinator Neil McKinnon had [...]
Bendigo-Daylesford trail links
Rail trails form links between communities in more ways than on the ground. Members of the Friends recently met with representatives from the steering group of the proposed Daylesford-Macedon rail trail to share experiences. The [...]
Forum looks at Bendigo’s cycle tourism potential
What is Bendigo's cycle tourism potential? How do we harness it to benefit local clubs and businesses? The Friends have organised a forum to ask what other cycling groups and businesses think. If you watched [...]
Exploring the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail
There’s nothing warms the heart of a rail trail fan like a new rail trail to explore. So while we dream of our own long-distance trail, we decamped to Yea last weekend to check out [...]
Axedale students take the rail trail to school
Around 20 students from the Axedale Primary School cycled to school on the O’Keefe Rail Trail on National Ride2School Day, Friday 23 March in the company of parents and the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail [...]
Friends clean up
Twenty-seven pairs of hands arrived to work on a section of the O'Keefe Rail Trail on Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 4 March. It was the biggest turn-out since we've been taking part in the [...]
Friends join forces for tree planting
A successful tree planting project was completed on the O’Keefe Rail Trail at Longlea on 30 October 2011. This was a joint project with the Friends of Kennington Reservoir group and was arranged with the [...]