Here at Cycling in Chch, we like to be useful as well as just fun and topical. Which is why I like to create blogposts that try to provide helpful advice for all the little things that can create headaches …

Heading to Halswell from the southern suburbs used to be an exercise of nerves, putting up with narrow shoulders on busy roads like Sparks Rd. The first part of the Quarrymans Trail made it easy to access the likes of …

If you think about all of the features of the new central city (including the “controversial” ones like St Asaph St and the 30km/h speed limit…), then they had their genesis in a transport plan released seven years ago by …

The end of the year is fast approaching; fortunately that also tends to coincide with better weather for biking too. So let’s see what’s coming up this month:

• Revolve Christchurch are a group dedicated to encouraging more women to bike

It’s hard to believe it’s less than one month away from Christmas again. And while we might all ponder what presents we want to give each other this year, an interesting ongoing related question is what “gifts” our local and …

“I thought of that while riding my bike” is the oft-quoted response from Albert Einstein as to how he came up with the theory of relativity. And while most of may not have a world-changing idea floating around our head, …

Guest contributor Criggie offered up this little historical snapshot for our viewing:

We’ve got this picture as a poster-print on the wall of our bike shed at work:

The photo was originally from the National Archives, and bears this …

One of the more useful concepts in modern cycle planning first came to NZ by way of a US cycle planner keynoting a NZ walking/cycling conference. It might seem odd that we would pick up a cycling lesson from car-centric …

Biketober convenor Robert sums up this year’s activities:

The third annual Biketober Festival of Cycling held in Christchurch is over for another year. How did it go ? Did you participate in any of the 60 different events ? What …

Historically, the NZAA was never really a champion for all things cycling, which in itself probably wasn’t that surprising. But over the past decade they have been reviewing that relationship, probably partly due to the fact that many of …