Flashback Friday: Adelaide Cycle Training Park

If you weren’t already aware, the City Council is currently consulting on an upgrade to the famous Westburn Junior Cycle Park – submissions close Mon 24th Apr (I’ll blog more about this soon). It brought to mind when I came across an even fancier junior cycle skills park while visiting Adelaide 9 years ago for the Velo-City Conference there. This blog-post (originally from June 2014) explains a little bit about how this one operates…

One more last post about my recent visit to Adelaide: on one of our field-trip rides we came across this amazing facility in Bonython Park.

Now I’ve always thought our own local bike training area at Westburn Park is pretty neat (and it is one of the most requested search items on this website). But this site was even more scaled up to cater for lots of bikes, and even had features like working traffic signals.

This facility is operated by the South Australia Police for school cycle skills training, with the new bike park being opened only a year ago. Next to the training park is a building where the Police road safety & bike skills staff can deliver training to schools. The neat thing however is that the general public can come and use the bike park any time it’s not being used for training classes.

I gather that Christchurch City Council is looking at building another bike training park over in Bexley. Perhaps they should look at places like this for a bit of inspiration…