a8817 Online No. 30
"One crazy thing I can’t get enough of is people asking for very specific bike parts to use in some wild and obscure project."
Cyclists can thank the Municipality of Newtown for pioneering rendered roadways. In the early 1900s metal and tar roads were laid here, then top-dressed with sand and tar to entomb the dust.
In 1904, the Newtown cyclists club participated in the NSW Cyclist Union opening run. These 'wheelmen' (and some women) from clubs across Sydney, wore fancy dress and decorated their bikes.
Hell on Wheels has a handy air compressor onsite, used by locals to inflate their wheelchairs, balls and boats.
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