Darebin Bicycle User Group is one of Melbourne's largest and most active cycling groups.

Committee of Management

Anyone is welcome to join the Committee of Management. If you think you have something to offer and would like to get involved, please contact Louise on 94703621 (AH).

The Committee

Louise - Convenor Darebin Bicycle Users Group

Louise learnt to ride her bike in April 2002 deciding that given she was 40 it was about time to learn. On her first ride with Darebin BUG she had not yet learnt how to ride and talk and found it a bit tricky when friendly club members kept riding up to chat with her and make her welcome.

Determined to become a competent cyclist in time for the February 2003 Great Tasmanian Bike Ride with Bicycle Victoria she went cycling every weekend with her very patient teacher, husband Robin.

Now she shops, visits friends, goes to movies and restaurants, holidays and commutes by bike. In fact, two questions she asks at job interviews are "Do you have a staff shower?" and "Where can I lock my bike?" She also leads Darebin BUG rides including our famous weekend rides and campaigns to make it safer and easier to ride in Darebin.

Doug - Emails Coordinator

Doug has been a keen cyclist for many years, but Darebin is the first BUG he has joined, having recently settled in the area. He is keen to support and encourage cycling as a healthy way to discover alternative perspectives of our urban environment.

Doug's passion for cycle touring has taken him to many locations, but the highlight was a 3 month long-service leave trip in which he explored parts of the UK and Ireland in 1999.

Kathleen - Meeting Chairperson.

As the role suggests, Kathleen chairs our monthly member meetings, our annual general meetings and our committee meetings. All of this sounds awfully formal, but it really means that Kathleen makes sure that our meetings run on time, our agenda issues are discussed, and that everyone coming along to meetings has a say and contributes to making the BUG a stronger and more effective body through member participation at meetings.

When I arrived in Melbourne, riding with Darebin BUG helped me to gain confidence on the road and get to know Melbourne. In the years since then I've had amazing adventures touring country Victoria, the South Island of New Zealand and Sydney as well as cycling Around the Bay with the BUG.

As part of the Committee of Management I’ve helped make Darebin a safer and easier place to ride. Fantastic improvements are taking place and DBUG is helping to make them happen.

Robin Gallagher - Campaigns Coordinator

Robin started out on a black iron bike with Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub. He then moved to a green iron bike with 10 gears. Now he rides a red alloy mountain bike that goes through anything, including the sand coast road on French Island. For commuting, he rides a black bike with hub gears, proving that what is old is new! Robin is passionate about joining up the scattered bits of path and lane, getting it all marked and signed consistently - in short - getting the same level of infrastructure for bike vehicles as for other types of vehicles. Robin can smell a secondhand bookshop from several streets away and has taught Darebin BUG rider participants to revere the "Second Breakfast".

Lee - Treasurer

Lee's bio

Kerry - Membership Secretary -

Kerry bought a super fancy Miyata road bike when he was 13 and used it to ride over Vail Pass and ride all over Denver and was happy. Flash forward many years to London, Kerry is living the dream, cycling everywhere, avoiding the horrors of the Tube, cycle touring Scotland, and having a great time with all his buddies in Tower Hamlets Wheelers. Then in 2009, he moved to Australia and Melbourne and found it a cycling city with lots of potential (lots and lots of work to be done), so threw himself into the BUG hoping to make Melbourne the equal of London (or dare we dream, Copenhagen?).

Wolter - Minutes Secretary

Wolter's bio

Darren - Website manager

Darren's bio

Michael - Rides Coordinator

Michael's bio

Kathy - Website Content Coordinator

Kathy is one of the co-founders of the Darebin BUG; seeing bicycle infrastructure in other areas, she thought bicycle riders in Darebin shouldn't miss out. Since then, cycling has taken up a lot of her life: she started a number of Darebin BUG rides, worked for Bicycle Victoria and the Cycling Promotion Fund, is trained as a Bicycle Education Instructor and teaches people to ride bikes through Jika Jika Community Centre. She has two young children and organises the Families on Bikes, regular rides suitable for very young children to child-friendly destinations - an Australian first.