Helpful stuff we made or have found in the wild
Bike Burbs stuff
Making a Team
- Work well as a Group tips from the DoC
- Best practice guidelines for volunteer management from Volunteering NZ
- Volunteer Management tips from Sport NZ
Social Media (might be outdated)
- Instructions for how to moderate your group under Facebook’s new settings
- DOC – Tips for setting up a group and running your social media channels (from Bike Devonport’s Chris Werry)
Events and Projects
- Community event planning guide from Sport NZ
- DOC – Health and Safety Plan Template
- PDF – Potential Hazards and ways to manage them
- PDF – Community Bike Maintenance Guide
- Make your own Bike Train to school with these tips from Bike Pt Chev
- Including people with visual impairments into sport – training
- Let people know about these bike skills courses from Auckland Transport
- PDF / DOC – Bike Ride Event Management Plan
Funding and Sponsorship
Bike Parking
- Bikes Welcome – a NZ resource focusing on bike parking as part of bike-friendly communities
- Lockydocks – Safe self locking bike parking set up by Big Street Bikers
- Auckland Transport map for requesting bike parking
- Accessible cycle parking design tips from Wheels for Wellbeing UK
Advocacy
- Check out Bike Auckland’s campaigns to see what we are up to!
- Start a petition-based campaign with community support from Greenpeace or Action Station
- Community campaign kit for street safety by Brake NZ
- The Cycle Friendly Employer guide – a resource to help local businesses encourage travel by bike
- How to talk about transport – guides from The Workshop
- Cycling Fallacies website – easy ways to refute those tired arguments
Central Government, Local Council and Local Board
- Communicating with Local Government – tips from Community Net Aotearoa
- Communicating with Central Government – tips from Community Net Aotearoa
- PDF – How to engage with politicians (notes from a CAN webinar via Bike Kaipaatiki’s Andy White)
- PDF – Writing to your elected representatives; tips and template for engaging with Council and Local Board
- PDF – How to get people to say yes, Sales course 101 by Richard Barter (PATH, Roskill Bike Kitchen).
alt: Easy read version. - Video – How to get people to say yes, Sales Course 101
- Information on speaking at a local board meeting
Infrastructure
- Training webinars from Waka Kotahi
- Cycleway network guidance by Waka Kotahi
- Accessible cycling infrastructure design guidance note by Waka Kotahi
- Cycle infrastructure guidance by Auckland Transport
- Pedestrian network guidance by Waka Kotahi
- Case studies by Waka Kotahi
- Unravelling the Cycling City – a free online course about cycling culture and infrastructure, drawing on the Netherlands as an example
- How to be a squeaky wheel: a guide to writing effective submissions on consultations in your area
- Accessible cycling resources from Wheels for Wellbeing UK
Other helpful links
- NZTA’s “People on Bikes” photo library. Contact them for permission to use these stock images
- “Inclusive Cycling” photobank from Wheels for Wellbeing UK
- A NZ guide on accessible communications – tips to keep your advocacy inclusive, bringing with you as many people as possible
- Cycle Action NZ – New Zealand nationwide cycling advocacy group
