Comments on: Flashback Friday: Bikes for earthquakes https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2025/09/05/flashback-friday-bikes-for-earthquakes/ Regular people riding bicycles Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Maia https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2025/09/05/flashback-friday-bikes-for-earthquakes/#comment-188681 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:29:11 +0000 https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=36490#comment-188681 If I lived in Brighton or Southshore and there was an urgent tsunami warning or urgent evacuation order of any kind, I would 100% jump on my bike (even once the new bridge is built.) Bikes will be much much quicker and nimble than cars in this situation, and not stuck in desperate traffic trying to escape. Leave the space on the roads for those with small children and less mobile folks to be able to get to safety

]]> By: Criggie https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2025/09/05/flashback-friday-bikes-for-earthquakes/#comment-188680 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:20:03 +0000 https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=36490#comment-188680 Fitzgerald Ave, on the day of the quake. Sorry for shonky footage, this was my first helmet cam and had no stabilisation. Also sound is horrid, but this was 14 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BHw0jarpBI

]]> By: Joy Burt https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2025/09/05/flashback-friday-bikes-for-earthquakes/#comment-188678 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:14:37 +0000 https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=36490#comment-188678 My daughter, with an injured ankle, walked to my home in Richmond after the earthquake in February expressly to borrow my touring bike as hers was inaccessible in the city. Her work premises had recently been moved out of the CTV building. She had the bike for months before her bike was returned to her.

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