Wheel Explorer
wE Sydney City Self Guided Bike Tour
wE Sydney City Self Guided Bike Tour
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Sydney has a great bicycle network but it can be hard to navigate using Google Maps. Our self guided tour gives you clear and safe directions for every step on the tour. In fact the Sydney tour has more than 400 custom directions so you can relax, ride and listen.
The tours suit either a single day or multi-day adventure based on a loop format. You can join the tour at any point in the loop, you just need to follow the directions in a clockwise direction.
All you need are your headphones and a rented ebike. You can visit points of interest at your own choosing and swap ebikes any time you like. You are not locked into a set time frame and will cover vastly more ground on our tour than with any other tour company.
Our tour is perfect for solo travellers or groups. If you are riding as a group we suggest you set up a group Whatsapp call so you can communicate together while you discover Sydney.
What's Included
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We supply participants with a link to access our Wheel Explorer app that gives the rider full turn by turn directions and information about the points of interest that you visit on your exploration..
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Please note this tour is self guided and DOES NOT include an ebike. Participants need to rent one from either Lime or Hello Ride. They are available all over the city. Just download the app and scan the qr code on the bike.
Check out a 3 minute video preview to see some of the highlights.
What To Expect - You can join the tour anywhere on the 15km clockwise loop.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Circular Quay
Sydney Opera House
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney Modern Project
Finger Wharf
Harry's Café de Wheels - Woolloomooloo
Coca Cola Sign
Kings Cross
Darlinghurst
Taylor Square Pride Village
Surry Hills
Chinatown
Chinese Garden of Friendship
Darling Harbour
Pyrmont
Pirrama Park
Jones Bay Wharf
The Star (Pass By)
Pyrmont Bridge
Australian National Maritime Museum (Pass By)
Cockle Bay
Barangaroo Reserve
The Theatre Bar at the End of the Wharf
How to use our App
Make sure to bring headphones for each participant and a fully charged phone. If you spend all day on the tour you may get low on battery as ongoing GPS use is generally hungry for power. If you have a portable charge pack it would be handy to have with you.
After you have purchased a tour we will send you login details to access the trip from the Sonicmaps page. You won't be able to access the tour until you receive the email and password to login. You will receive that via email.
Click on the image below to access the login page.
Make sure to allow access from your browser to your phones location when it asks for it. You should see this.
If your location is not working correctly on the tour then click the image below to find ways to check your phone location settings.
Once you load up your location you should see
a red dot showing your location. Zoom in to the centre of the city, then look for our orange tour icon and click on it to load up the tour.
We recommend you download the tour audio and pictures before you set off. This will speed up the triggering of audio and it also allows you to follow the tour without an internet connection or data. However the YouTube video links that are found at many locations need an internet connection. Look for the download icon at the bottom right of the screen.
Make sure you have your phone off silent mode. You won’t hear the audio if you do. On an iPhone you may need to slide the mute switch on the side of your phone.
Also make sure to use the lock 🔒 feature at the top right of the screen so that your phone screen does not turn off. If it does the audio will stop.
We recommend you drop the brightness of your screen to 50% to maximise battery life and keep the map in dark mode. That’s the default setting anyway.
There is a crosshair icon next to the lock icon which you should keep selected. It allows the map to pan with you as you progress on the tour. You can zoom in to whatever detail you prefer but will need to reselect the crosshair after any zoom changes.
As you explore the tour the audio will trigger for both general directions and points of interest. There are white circles with numbers that indicated the points of interest.
The general directions will play in their entirety but the points if interest will trigger when you enter the blue zone circles which you can see on the map. If you leave the circle the audio will fade out and you can continue. If you want to hear all the information you wil need to move back into the circle so that the audio can continue.
When you enter a blue circle you will also see one or more pictures come up on the screen. This will relate to the point of interest you have entered. You can click on the pictures to scroll through them. Also look for YouTube video links at the bottom of the photos. If you click them YouTube will open up on your phone and begin to play the relevant video. The audio from the tour will pause and continue when you go back to the tour. We suggest you wait till you listen to all of the point of interest audio before you click on the video link.
You can click outside any picture on the screen to see the entire map again.
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