School holiday fun Sydney is easy with a trike ride. Grandma organised the experience for her teenage grandchildren for something different and memorable during the school holidays.

They drove to McMahons Point because they live out of the city. This is a good place to park the car and it is safe for our trike and Harley riders to stop. Craig and Steve picked the teens up and rode them through some of the lower north shore suburbs.

Next was the fabulous ride over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. An experience we never tire of as it is an amazing structure. Then they rode around the Royal Botanical Gardens and past Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.

Next was a quick ride through the city and back over the bridge to the car where Grandma was waiting. It was such school holiday fun Sydney and an experience they won’t forget.

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Their grandma wrote on an email “They all really enjoyed their ride and stated that Craig and Steve were lovely.”

She then wrote on TripAdvisor:
Wow
4 teenagers on school holidays 2 females, 2 males looking for something different.
Great vibe great ride great Tour Trike Leaders Craig and Steve.
Interesting places to see.
Easy to recommend to anyone to try and great to give or receive as a birthday or Christmas present.

McMahons Point is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, NSW Australia. McMahons Point is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney CBD.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahons_Point

McMahon’s Point is named after Michael McMahon, a 19-year old Irish farm labourer who arrived in Sydney on Feb 14, 1848 with his brother James. Two years later he married Angelina Faning (of St Heliers, Jersey Islands) and they had several children.

Michael McMahon became a successful and wealthy manufacturer of brushes and combs and in 1864 built the McMahon family home on the headland. He became mayor of the borough of Victoria (later North Sydney) in 1890.

A unique Harley ride inner west Sydney was organised for Alistair. He is in Sydney on holidays from Scotland. He wanted to go over the Sydney Harbour Bridge so someone on reception at his hotel suggested “why not do it on a Harley Davidson”. So the seed was planted! The concierge rang us and we organised Jungle to pick Alistair up.

Alistair didn’t mind where they went after driving over the Harbour Bridge so Jungle took him on a Harley ride inner west Sydney. He saw many places most visitors to our beautiful city don’t get to see. After riding over the bridge they stopped at Kirribilli for photos.

They rode through some of the lower north shore suburbs to the Gladesville Bridge in the inner west. They continued on Victoria Road before they turned off and rode around Iron Cove Bay. This took them through Rodd Point and along Henley Marine Drive. It follows some of the 7km Bay Run.

Next was an historical tour of Balmain. The historical Balmain Power Station, Dr Balmain’s original house and past the oldest bowling club in Australia. Then he was ridden back to his hotel to continue exploring Sydney on foot. If you’d like to do a Harley ride inner west Sydney and see something different to all the touristy parts, contact us for more information.

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The area now known as Balmain was part of a 550 acres (2.2 km2) grant to colonial surgeon Dr William Balmain (1762–1803) made in 1800 by Governor John Hunter. A year later, Balmain transferred his entire holding to settle a debt to John Borthwick Gilchrist before returning to Scotland. The legality of the land transfer from Balmain to Gilchrist for only 5 shillings was challenged by Balmain’s descendents and further development of the area was blocked.

Our passengers are from western NSW and flew into Sydney this morning. They caught a taxi to Balmoral Beach for breakfast. The Craig and Steve our trike riders met them their to start a trike tour Balmoral Beach and more.

They rode from Balmoral to the lower north shore of Mosman. Next was Cremorne and then over the wonderful Sydney Harbour Bridge and the incredible ANZAC Bridge. Now they are in the inner west of Sydney. They rode onto Henley Marine Drive and past Birkenhead Point. The final destination was the Drummoyne boat ramp where they hired a boat to go along the Parramattta River and into Sydney Harbour.

They had such a fun experience and we can tell their whole holiday will be a lot of fun. A trike tour Balmoral Beach and beyond is a great experience, contact us for details.

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Birkenhead Point Drummoyne, The Outlet Centre is Sydney’s largest outlet centre. Located in Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia, the centre is also home to a marina and apartment complex. Most of the centre is an open space to maximise the views of Sydney Harbour.

Balmoral Beach, in Middle Harbour, is a favourite destination for North Shore residents because of its picturesque sheltered beach set against the green backdrop of Middle Head.

It is not so well known by visitors and tourists, but the stunning natural beauty of the beach and surrounds make it well worth a visit. The beach is situated in Hunters Bay, which is the first body of water inside Middle Harbour.

Although the beach backs onto the HMAS Penguin naval base, it’s hard to see the military buildings because of the forest that covers Middle Head.

A stand-out building is the Bather’s Pavillion, an historic white pavillion built in 1928-1929 that enjoys a new lease of life as a cafe and restaurant. It is a rendered brick construction of classic Mediterranean influence with elements and finishes common to the Spanish Mission style.
https://www.sydney.com.au/balmoral-beach.htm

A surprise birthday Harley ride was a great start to a wonderful day. Liz bought the surprise birthday Harley ride for Anne. All her mates were there to celebrate the Birthday with her.

Our Harley rider Phil picked her up in Petersham, in the inner west of Sydney. He rode her on the back of the Harley to many of the interesting suburbs of the inner west. These include Balmain, Drummoyne and Rodd Point. They continued on to Norton St, Leichhardt and then to the drop off point. A surprise birthday Harley ride is a great present for almost anyone!

Anne absolutely loved her Harley ride. Liz wrote:
“Hi Phil thanks so much for making it special for Anne. She loved the ride and your chats. Couldn’t be a better experience. 
Kind regards
Liz”

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James Norton

Norton Street is in the suburb of Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. It is located 5 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the main commercial street in the suburb.

Norton Street contains a mix of residential buildings, restaurants (Italian and others), cafés, eateries and individual retail outlets, including several bookstores and grocery shops. There are also hotels, a Palace Cinema, Norton Street Grocer and two of the suburb’s three shopping centres: Norton Plaza and the Italian Forum.

At the southern end of the street is the Italian Forum, notable for its design which seeks to emulate the feel of a Mediterranean town piazza featuring a fountain, ringed by cafés and upmarket fashion shops.

Balmain is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney . Balmain is located 6 km west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council. It sits on a small peninsula that juts out of Sydney Harbour, directly opposite Milson’s Point.

It is located on the Balmain Peninsula surrounded by Port Jackson, adjacent to the suburbs of Rozelle to the south-west, Birchgrove to the north-west, and Balmain East to the east. Iron Cove sits on the western side of the peninsula, with White Bay on the south-east side and Mort Bay on the north-east side.

Traditionally Blue Collar, Balmain was where the industrial roots of the Trade Unionist movement began. It has become established in Australian working-class culture and history, due to being the place where the Australian Labor Party formed in 1891 and its social history and status is of high cultural significance to both Sydney and New South Wales. Today, the ALP contends with the Australian Greens for political prominence in Balmain, and Jamie Parker of the Greens holds the State seat of Balmain.

Our Irish passengers were such fun, Steve our trike rider loved the trike tour of Harbour Bridge just as much as they did! They are living just out of the CBD so they caught a train into Circular Quay. Steve picked them up from there and took them on the ride of a lifetime.

They rode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge which is the main drawcard of this tour. They stopped at Blues Point Reserve for photos. The view across Sydney Harbour to the Sydney Opera House and the CBD is beautiful, we even admit it.

They rode around the North Sydney area and also called into Kirribilli. This area also has beautiful views across Sydney Harbour to the Opera House and the CBD, just seen from a different perspective.

Troll Tours are almost all Sydneysiders, born and bred here so we know all the best places to go. If you’d like to do a trike tour of Harbour Bridge or anywhere else in Sydney, we sure can organise it for you.

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https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/