Wheel Explorer

wE Sydney Beaches Self Guided Bike Tour

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We offer the best way to discover the legendary eastern beaches of Sydney. On two electric wheels!

Sydney is world famous for its spectacular beaches so prepare yourself to visit some very special places. We hope you have your swimmers with you as jumping into Sydney harbour and coastal beaches is an unforgettable experience.

Sydney has a great bicycle network but it can be far too hard to navigate using Google Maps. Our self guided tour gives you clear and safe directions for every step on the tour so you can relax, ride and listen.

The tour follows the harbour all the way to Camp Cove in the East, then heads south to Bondi Beach and other sensational beaches. You will then ride west back towards the city via Centennial Park.

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. Our tour is perfect for solo travellers or groups.

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.

Please note that you will need to rent a Lime bike as Hello ride bikes won't operate to the beaches.

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What's Included

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..

Please note this tour is self guided and DOES NOT include an ebike. Participants need to rent a Lime Bike. They are available all over the city. Just download the app and scan the qr code on the bike. We recommend purchasing a 300min pass for the most affordable option. Renting per minute is far too expensive.

Check out a 3 minute video preview to see some of the highlights.

What To Expect - You can join the tour anywhere on the 40km clockwise loop.

Kings Cross

The Kings Cross district was Sydney's bohemian heartland from the early decades of the 20th century. The illegal trading of alcohol, known as sly grog, was notorious in the area up until mid-century, led by rival brothel owners, Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh. The area is also home to a large number of artists, including writers, poets and journalists.

Rushcutters Bay

Look out for yachts in the bay and learn about the old Sydney Stadium and one of the most famous boxing matches in Australia.

Double Bay

Drop in for some LA and Rodeo Drive style shopping.

Redleaf Pool

One of the many beautiful places to go for a swim in Sydney Harbour. See if you can swim out to the pontoon for a recharge.

Point Piper

Australia's most expensive suburb with houses breaking records at Auction.

Rose Bay

Enjoy the new bike path as you ride past the Bay. Look out for flying boats and learn about an old floating restaurant.

Vaucluse

Prepare to ride up Heartbreak Hill made famous by Sydney's annual City to Surf Marathon run. It's actually pretty easy on an ebike! Prepare for some of the best views of the city and harbour from the top of the hill. Visit stunning Milk Beach and Nielson Park for more outrageously beautiful harbourside nooks.

Parsley Bay

Check out some of the finest houses in Sydney surrounded by Australian bush as you ride over the famous Parsley Bridge. Look out for the local Water Dragons basking in the sun by the waters edge.

Watsons Bay

Grab a bite and or a drink at famous Doyle's Restaurant and saviour the view over the water and all the way back to the city skyline.

If you are doing the tour over multiple days you can get a ferry from here through Sydney Harbour back to the city.

Camp Cove

Visit one off Sydney's prettiest beaches, learn about the First Nations people that once called this area home. Grab an ice cream or snack from the kiosk.

The Gap

Discover why The Gap is so notorious in Sydney and gaze out across the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

Dover Heights

Learn about a local missing woman whose foot turned up on a beach 500km south of Sydney. What happened to Melissa Caddick?

Visit a clifftop location that has some Sydney's best Aboriginal rock engravings. Learn more about the First Nations tribes that called Sydney their home before the arrival of foreigners off these very waters in 1788.

Bondi Beach

What can we say about famous Bondi? It's a must see for anyone visiting Sydney and it's not hard to see why. Park your share ebike and dive in for a swim of as lifetime. If you are lucky you might see some of the legendary Bondi Lifeguards at work, if you are unlucky then you must just need them!

On the way out visit the world's most instagrammed swimming pool. Do they really throw icebergs into the pool? All will be revealed.

Tamarama Beach

Learn about Sydney's first amusement park that was known as Wonderland. Go back in time with archival photographs and be blown away by the scale of this fantastical creation from another time.

Bronte Beach

One of our favourite Sydney beaches with plenty of cool cafes and a spectacular rockpool. Learn why Bronte has the biggest Xmas parties in Sydney and why the locals are so pissed off about it.

Coogee Beach

The final ocean beach on your tour, Coogee was once the location of the Virgin Mary. True story, but you will need to do the tour to find out what happened to her.

Centennial Park

After a short ride through the Eastern Suburbs you will enter Sydney's most popular city park. Enjoy this bike mecca and learn about a wide range of topics. Charles Dickens meets > a gruesome murder > meets the history of Australian cinema and where the country became an independent nation of sorts.

Surry Hills

Surry Hills is an evolving area known for its stylish cultural and cafe scene. Terraced houses on Crown and Cleveland streets showcase hip coffee joints, fashion boutiques and global eateries. Trendy pubs, wine bars and galleries dot the area around Surry Hills Library, a community hub with a contemporary, sustainable design. Stretching 4.3 km from Woolloomooloo to Waterloo, the Bourke Street Bicycle Route (or the “Loo to Loo"as it is sometimes called) links Sydney’s harbour to a newly developed urban residential village. Climbing steep hills, passing through industrial, commercial and residential neighbourhoods, juxtaposing both garbage and glamour.

Darlinghurst

Once a slum and red-light district, Darlinghurst has undergone urban renewal since the 1980s to become a cosmopolitan area made up of precincts. Darlinghurst is well known around the world as the centre of Sydney's gay community, with it's yearly parade of the Sydney Mardi Gras and the spiritual birthplace of the LGBTQ rights movement. It is home to a number of prominent gay venues and businesses, while more broadly Darlinghurst is a centre of Sydney's burgeoning small bar scene. Demographically, Darlinghurst is home to the highest percentage of generation X and Y in Australia.

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.