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On June the 1st I spend a gorgeous day on Rottnest island just off the coast of Perth with my daughter. Some of you know the island.
Being that this island has a ban on cars it is just fab that you get to ride around all day without fear of being run over.
Are there any such islands near the UK? As I return in a couple of weeks it would be nice to ride those islands too.
Stu.

You mean in Austraila? no wonder they banned car, the environment must be quite fraglie there!

Sark

Yeh Ed, Perth Australia. The island of Rottnest is quite fragile just limestone and sand dunes.
With paved roads around the whole island for all the bikes of course

glad you had a lovely day out there Stu, it looks beautiful and serene..pixs? fb?

@ fruitbat. I googled Sark and it says it has an area of 5.45 km² thats pretty tiny.

B. I rushed out the door and completely forgot my camera :(

that make sense, thought I'd have imaging having a small airport there isn't going to help keeping the island stable, need to do more research on that.

aahhgg! oh well, great memories :)

The most famous car-less island is perhaps Mackinac Island in the US:

http://www.mackinac.com/content/general/about.html

A number of small Greek islands are carless.

This one said..something like!!

@ Ed. The airport is for the Royal Flying Doctors Service and those people who can't do the 25 minute boat trip.
I was also told yesterday that light aircraft pilots who need to keep flying hours up need to fly across a body of water and do a touch and go landing.

This one said.
B. I was gutted but great memories, Yes

It's the only island that I know is car free, sorry.

Oliver, that Mackinac looks great right there.
Would like to know more about the Greek Islands though? Any names?

Hey Fruitbat, don't be sorry, I appreciate your input :)

am I going mad or did posts appear then disappear?? i need to sleep, clearly.... :/

it's those live reply thing, and sometime when you refresh the browser it doesn't show the latest few post, until you refresh it again.

it's a bit dodgy as an escort sometime.

It's me going mad. my browser is showing double posts, so I deleted the second ones only to see my original one now gone WTF

thats happened to me a few times too, looks like a double post but its actually not... phewww.. its not me :)

mixing the live reply and refreshing the browser as well in a short space of time (or probably after a live post show up) does that to you.

how do you post "live reply" i just post in the normal message slot... sorry for derailing Stu...

no problemo, I thought I was loosing it.
my own derail.
Ed I love your new Bob btw.

Now back to islands?
Any info on car free greek islands?

live reply is when you can see other people post popping up without the need to refresh the browser (varies on browser I've noticed) not your own.

thank mates, now back to islands, I did a quick search in Google for 'car-free island' and got this result;



here's the one for the UK and it's island;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...hannel_Islands

@ Ed.
I also just did the wiki search! Good result.
I've been to Venice (not vienna) and although it is (almost) car free I don't recall seeing any bikes either.

Well enough procrastination. I'm off to do some work and will call back later.
thanks for the input and get some sleep you guys.

I can tell you Clovelly don't have bicycles too (as far as I remember from childhood), mostly due to the fact that it's on a cliff! pictures doesn't do jusitice to how steep it is.

plenty good car free islands around these islands.
Lundy- off Devon, go from Woolacombe ferry I think?
Brownsea- Poole from ferry.
Farne islands- Northumberland
Skomer- off St Davids Pembrokeshire

theres a couple to be going on with, could mtb on all of them but check for biking authorisation.

Didnt even start in Scotland where theres literally loads.

my great-aunt has a cottage on The Isle Of Spring up in Maine, there are no paved roads, but there is one truck for taking your bags and things to your cottage, I wonder if she would let me borrow it for a few weeks in august....

(this post has no relevance)

Formentera

last time i was there, was fooling around cycling and did a big skid, that popped the tyre. had to walk back in 35 deg heat.

I've been to the Farne Islands on many occasions. Usually you can't even land there, never mind ride a bike round them. And if MC thinks Sark might be a bit small then the Farnes aren't really going to do the job.
Not sure about Skomer, but, I guess for the same reason as the Farne islands, (protection of wild bird habitat) cycling is probably prohibited.

lamu off the coast of kenya
a beautiful island, donkeys and dhows galore, for transport
blue seas, golden beaches
narrow streets, white washed houses
stunning
have spent 2 months there in total would recommend it to anyone

+1 for sark, it's pretty fun. I've been a couple of times with mates on all day pub crawls and there always seemed to be loads of families having fun on bikes. Not sure I would go for more than a day or two though, as you say it is quite small

Mountain biking around brownsea island will take about 5 - 10 minutes.

yeah but the nature, man

sounds like a ropey emo band

Red Squirrels and Pine Trees?? Am I missing something.

the island that fixed gear gallery seem to go to every year for their annual get together
can't for the life of me remeber the name of it ?

fire island?

;)

A few of the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands are nearly car free, only residents are permitted to drive a car on the island and there is only a few there. Most ferries depart from Den Helder. Shiermonnikoog is probably one of the nicer islands around.

Not as warm as Rotto but less busy definately, Rotto rocks though, once did the relay swim from Freo.

Ah, OK, I think I'd come across that Wikipedia article before. Nice summary, although it has to be stressed that the German cities listed aren't really 'car-free'--they usually have large designated 'pedestrian zones', but cars for delivery, or indeed emergency vehicles, are certainly permitted under some circumstances.

Sorry, just got home!

@ emmeff. thanks ,will have to get a m bike though.

@ Mr Crash, correct, post not relevent, but hi anyway, I hope you are well Chris.

@ Ma3k. Jon, you know you love the quokas. Quoka polo perhaps?

Ramon. Formentera sounds ace! and so close to Spain too. I like spain.

Dale, was it your own bike or a hire bike? either way you, bogan vandal.

Fruitbat. Sark is sounding better and better.

@ Dicki. Are the donkeys on Lamu brakeless?

@ Matty. "Island without cars" are not ropey! emo yes but not ropey.

Dicki again!! I like the Isle of Mann one day of the year, is that the one you mean?

Thanks all for your input. Gives me some food for thought for car free riding.
Stu

Isle of Man,

Arran is careless. They're so clumsy there!

Someone said Sark, but Aldeny (prob wrong spelling) in the Channel Islands is almost Car free too.

And a MASSIVE +1 to whoever said Formentera, that place is so beautiful. Went there as a kid and rode around all day on some crappy hired shopper but it was ace.
Just recently got back from a job in Menorca and had forgotten how nice the Balerics are.

harbour island in the bahamas. full of golf buggies tho. dont think its carless by law, just to small to make it worth having one.

Vienna? Car free? huh?

There aren't *many* cars on the Scilly Isles. That's *most* of the way to what you want.