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Journey – Inspiring Bicycle Adventures
I was recently sent a copy of Journey – “a quarterly journal of bicycle adventures in New Zealand and beyond”. The majority of bike magazines are vehicles for advertising, focus on the equipment not...
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Commuter Review: Halo LED Light Belt
Now this is a cool idea, an LED safety-light that attaches to you, not your bike. Made from that tough-as-nails woven nylon you might find on a tie-down or back-pack strap the Halo Belt has a built-in...
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Bicycle Infrastructure Upgrades on the Shore
Unless you’re a bicycle advocate it’s not the sexiest headline is it? Buy money spent on walking & cycling facilities is a great investment in quality-of-life and there’s a couple of sizable...
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Friday Frivolity: Cars are beneath us
You might remember Richie Trimble from that 30 Seconds to Mars bike video. He was the guy sporting the rainbow-coloured feather mohawk, and, oh yeah, his bike was 10ft tall! But Richie has gone up in...
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Ride Bikes, Save Doh
I recently designed some printed material for an online survey Cycle Action Auckland was doing in conjunction with Auckland Transport. They are looking at why so few users of the Northern Busway arrive...
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Serial Copyright Infringement
My bicycle blogging days are drawing to a close and I was reminiscing about the cycling “logohacks” I have posted on this site over the years. It wasn’t until I gathered them all in one place I...
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Review: MonkeyLight LED Wheel-Light
The MonkeyLight is a bicycle wheel-light that draws objects and patterns as you ride. With 16 electronically controlled LEDs each side flashing and changing colour it’s a great deal more sophisticated...
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Lit up like Crystal Palace
Love on the East Coast Rd Share with Care. Those of you following the blog for some time will know I love the fun side of cycling, “fun” is my primary motivation for riding bikes. Saving money and...
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Global (Design) Village
Since I started bike-blogging I’ve met a lot of cool people in the bicycle community. There’s the fat-bike crowd, the mountainbikers, the (two-wheeled) photographers and the bike advocates. Having a...
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End of the road for Bike Friendly North Shore
How the best photo I’ve ever taken ended my bike blogging career… Chasing the sun. I captured the image above at the end of a scorching hot day in the Waikato, right in the middle of the drought. My...
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2013: Here’s a Weird Statistic…
Yours truly riding home from work for the last time in 2013. Since I gave-up on this blog at the beginning of June the “viewership” (for want of a better term) has remained exactly the same, it hasn’t...
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Free Ride n Repair Stations
Auckland Transport (the guys with two logos) are putting on a series of cycling events this summer, as they do every year. I’ve got my doubts this type of event encourages regular cycling, but they can...
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Ciclovía Comes To Auckland
Ciclovía on Quay Saturday, 8th February 2014, 10am – 4pm I’ve been banging on about this for years, how we desperately need a “Sunday Streets” style event for Auckland. With motorized vehicles bared...
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The Last Fishfinger
Working odd hours I’ve invariably got the road to myself, that’s both good and bad. Good in that tin-tops are few and far between, bad in that I’m isolated from fellow riders, a cycle-commuting...
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Welcome aboard Evolution Cycles
Bike Friendly North Shore must be growing up, we’ve just landed a sponsor! While not a North Shore business (they hail from the Waikato) Evolution Cycles is a name that just keeps cropping-up. A work...
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A Small Royal Visit
Small royal visit? No, we haven’t got one of Betty Windsor’s corgis visiting down-under on the royal yacht, I’m talking about a quick ride at the The Royal Albany Trail. As previously reviewed in Great...
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Go By Bike Day – Feb 12th, 7am-9am
Auckland Transport have scaled-back their grandiose bike-breakfasts of old, but there’s still stuff happening in Bike Wise Month. If you’re cycling past Smalls Farm tomorrow morning (7am-9am) stop by...
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Fondle A FatBoy
If you’ve been a regular visitor to this blog you may have seen my big purple mountainbike pop-up from time to time. With it’s chunky 3.7 inch tyres (on 65mm rims) it tends to stand-out in a crowd,...
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Worth Losing Sleep For
Waiting for the light. I drove out to Woodhill Forest this morning after dropping my son at rowing training. At 6.00am in the morning you’re in that no-man’s-land of “it’s still the middle of the...
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Another Fat-Bike Teaser
So fat it stands up all by itself. Yes, yes, I know this is supposed to be a “community cycling” blog, but I’m a mountainbiker at heart and wanted to share some photos from the weekend. The riding was...
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