Its a glorious Melbourne autumn morning as Val and Faith kick off the Yarra BUG Radio show this morning sharing their bike moments together with studio guest Colin Bell of Sunbury Cycling Club. We cover some news inclusing the death of local bike advocacy legend Allan Parker, the Ronde van Vlanderen yesterday in Belgium, and an update on the BikeSpot Project.Our studio guest Colin Bell shares news about the first criterium held at the new closed road circuit at Essendon Fields and Sunbury Cycling Club's plans for the venue. We also touch on the new cyclocross venue there, how it will fit in with the Fields of Joy Cyclocross season and the upcoming dates and plans for winter 2016.We finish up the show with some events coming up including Pushy Women Training in City of Yarra, the Pushy Women Show at the MICF and the Abbotsford Swap Meet, all coming up this weekend!

On this weeks show Chris and Steve tackle what's wrong with bicycle advocacy in Australia and come to a basic conclusion that more critical thinking & first principles are required to pull us out of the current negative environment. We interview Em Baker, director of Spoke the Movie about riding over 3000kms across the United States, where crash victims, urban planners, activists and law enforcement were interviewed to investigate what makes the U.S the most dangerous developed country for cyclists.  Spoke the Movie will be screening alongside a Q and A session with Fairfax journalist David Escourt on 10 April at Testing Grounds with Projector Bike, tickets are selling fast, so make sure you order yours here.We finish up with a quick reminder about submissions for Road Safety Road Rules 2009 (Overtaking Bicycles) Bill 2015 that close on Friday 1st April.

Val and Jeremy Haughty chat on bicycle news and events and the wonderful world of British bikes from the last century .

On this weeks program, Steve pays a visit to 3CR studio one after a long break off air and we attempt an brief overview of upcoming Spring Classics and Womens WorldTour in Europe. Chris interviews Cat & Danielle from Wrenchworthy Bicycle Shed, an autonomous space for women, non-binary and gender diverse people interested in bike maintenance, about moving to Thornbury and their future plans. Chris interviews Gordon Oakley from RACV about Melbourne Bike Share arriving in Yarra with three new stations, the problematic h_lm_t situation, opportunities for bike share integrating with public transport and rising participation numbers in Melbourne over the summer months.

Val and Faith are joined by Simon Stainsby and start the show with some local and international bike news.

On todays show: after a recap including yesterdays Melbourne World Wide Naked Bike Ride ride around the bayside suburbs, continuing saga of NSW bicycle laws and tech glitches in the studio, Chris manages to speak to Cr Philip Mallis from Boroondara Council about the long awaited final step to complete Darebin Yarra Trail link, a missing link that's taken several decades to build and much campaiging from the local community. Our second guest is John Englart talking about his experience as an observer at COP21 in Paris, protests against Notre-Dame-Des-Landes (NDDL) and cycling through UK and France.

Val and Faith get the lowdown on a new way to improve your ride through the streets of Melbourne from Anthony Aisenberg, BikeSpot.

At this years Sustainable Living Festival, The Squeaky Wheel, CrowdSpot and Treadlie presented the forum: Riding in Melbourne: Perceived fear or real risk? This forum was also a launch for the new BikeSpot project, a collaboration, enabled by a TAC Community Road Safety Grant, between The Squeaky Wheel and CrowdSpot, to understand the bicycle riding community's perceived level of safety compared to historical crashes at locations across Melbourne.Panel included: Anthony Aisenberg, Director at Crowdspot, Pip Caroll, Founder and Director at The Squeaky Wheel, Jane Waldock, Manager Sustainability and Strategic Transport, City of Yarra, Alexander Sheko, Consultant, GTA Consultants and questions from the audience. Check yarrabug.org/radio for the entire forum audio as seperate podcast.

Val and Faith kick off this week's show with studio guests Emma Grella of Fondo Cycling and Mark Drehlich from Cycling Victoria. We start by sharing our bicycle moments before moving onto local cycling news, including the track National Championships in Adelaide and the 2016 Jayco Herald Sun Tour, as well as an update on proposed cycling laws in NSW.Mark and Emma tell us all about The Women's Ride, now in its second year and plans to make this bigger and better and we discuss the growth in riding by Melbourne women in general.We finish up with just a few of the events coming up in a busy month inclusing a Suits Ride, the Treadlie Bike Hub, a forum on perceived safety riding in Australia, EcoCity Rides and a host of others.

On this weeks program Chris catches up with David Borella from BIKESydney. We discuss ongoing impacts of the NSW government removing College St Cycleway, proposed massively increased fines for 'cycling offences', with riders being required to carry identification while riding, as a trade off for minimum passing distances similar to SA, QLD and Tasmania.Despite deteriorating riding conditions for Sydney cyclists, alongside an antagonistic political environment, we talk about unintended consequences of this government overreach and what you can do to fight back again these draconian laws and fines.