Sydney Tweed Ride

Overview

The Sydney Tweed Ride is back, ready to add some sartorial elegance to bikes lanes across the city. As the title suggests, cyclists are implored to ditch the leaving-little-to-the-imagination lycra and dress in their finest tweed for a serendipitous cycle around Sydney.

For one June Sunday, dapper will reclaim the lanes as pedlars wheel out the tweed and the odd penny-farthing in celebration of simpler fashion times. Gents, there will be no better opportunity to sport a handlebar than whilst gripping your handlebars so dress up ol' sports. If your wardrobe isn't replete with tweed then do not fret, you can still partake, just dress warm and be ready to say "jolly good show chaps and chapesses" at select intervals.

The event is part of a growing global movement of tweed rides, and runs, that has proven very popular in both England and America and after a brief hiatus in 2012, the popular annual event is ready to peddle again. So if you feel like dropping the cleats for pleats, registration (which is compulsory, as is a helmet) begins on the day at 8am at Town Hall. Tally ho!

UPDATE 2: The Tweed Ride has been postponed a second time, to a future date to be determined. More details here.

Image courtesy of Garry Knight