Community action/Victoria (Australia)

Cycling in Victoria is a form of transport, recreation and competitive sport in the Australian state of Victoria. Cycling has been practised in Victoria since the nineteenth century, with Melbourne becoming an early centre of Australian bicycle racing. A bicycle race was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1869, and organised road and track competition developed during subsequent decades.

Victoria has played a prominent role in Australian competitive cycling. Long-running Victorian events include the Austral Wheel Race, first held in 1887, the Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic, first held in 1895, and the Herald Sun Tour, first held in 1952. More recent events include the Bay Classic Series and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. Victorian cyclists including Kathy Watt, Cadel Evans and Simon Gerrans have achieved international success.

Cycling is also widely undertaken for transport, recreation and tourism. Victoria has extensive urban bicycle networks, regional rail trails and mountain-bike trails. Major mass-participation events include the Great Victorian Bike Ride and Around the Bay.

Cycling in Geelong, Victoria is common for recreation and competition, but less so for utility and commuting.

Geelong has a discontinuous network of off-road trails and on-road bicycle lanes.

Geelong's major shared riding and walking trails are the Bellarine Rail Trail, Barwon river, Bay, Ted Wilson and Waurn Ponds creek trails.

A series of rider fatalities and the safety of bike riding in and around the Geelong has received media and political attention.

A 2016 announcement of plans for a two-way separated bike lane in central Geelong was welcomed by bike groups.

Victoria, commonly abbreviated as VIC, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second most populous state with a population of over 7 million, and the second-smallest, with a land area of 227,444 square kilometres (87,817 sq mi), making it the most densely populated state in Australia (31.1 per km²). Named in honour of Queen Victoria, Victoria was separated from New South Wales and established as a separate Crown colony in 1851, achieving responsible government in 1855.

Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest.