Guest blogger Catherine shares some of her thoughts about the key factors that influence her daily choice to commute by bike:
I developed a cycling dogma! It’s taken time to create, but here it is:
Cycling offers me freedom like …
Author: Cycling in Chch (Guest)
Guest Post: Cycling and making sense of life
Another guest post by Robyn M Speed
Sometimes life is like biking into a never-ending headwind. Sometimes life is happening so fast and out of control that it’s like flying downhill, both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time.
The …
Guest Post: As Easy As Riding a Bike
Here’s a guest post from Jack Jiang, kindly reprinted from his original AECOM blog post:
Improving urban wellbeing: as easy as riding a bike
The landscape of post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand is changing rapidly. When there is change, there …
Zen and the Art of Cycling
Here’s a guest post from occasional contributor Robyn M.Speed – enjoy…
I nailed that hill!
It had been there waiting, patiently, quietly.
No nagging. No taunting.
Just waiting…for the day when I decided ‘I’ll have a crack at it and …
Guest Post: RAD Bikes
This guest post is from Catarina Gutierrez – enjoy!
RAD is that small shed you’ve seen on the corner of Tuam and High St, across from C1 Espresso {update Jul ’15: now at The Commons, cnr Kilmore and Durham…
Christchurch Home of NZ Cycling Champion
Guest blog by Axel Wilke
Glen Koorey – Cycle Champion
The national Cycle Friendly Awards were first held in 2003, and since 2007, the category “Cycling Champion of the Year” has been awarded. In 2014, Dr Glen Koorey of Christchurch …
Guest Post: We Share the Road?
Here’s a guest post from reader Dan Hanson:
We Share the Road: A road safety campaign from CCC and NZTA
I found myself doing a double take at the Springs Road/Main South Road intersection last week, at this perplexing …
Guest Post: Cycling in the Netherlands
Here’s an interesting guest post from regular viewer Frank Dohmen (Cyclomaniac):
After been away for 7 years we decided to visit family and friends in our home country the Netherlands. Since our friends and family are quite spread over the …
The best locked bike in Christchurch
A combination of a tigr, a kryptonite cable and a New York Fahgettaboudit lock made a bike on campus the best locked bike I’ve ever seen. This is in a place where it seems quite usual to leave your …
Does your mother not let you ride on the road?
Recently a Christchurch cyclist told me this story. A workmate of hers approached her, soon after he had started. “Do you remember”, he asked, “shouting ‘Does your mother not let you ride on the road?’ at someone riding on the …
Curletts Road Abomination
This is a guest post from Helen Fitt who sat down to write a submission on the Curletts Road options and decided that none of them are acceptable and that we should be telling NZTA that this is the case!…
The flat – part three
The final part of the bike puncture trilogy from guest blogger Anton Angelo…
Its a tiny bit of, I assume, steel. I couldn’t find it. The mechanics at the local bike shop couldn’t find it after turning the tyre inside …
Guest Post: Impressions from a “tourist”
This is a guest post kindly supplied by Prof John Parkin from the UK, editor of the recent book “Cycling and Sustainability” and a recent visitor to our fair city…
Kia ora.
Large and small gems: that will be mine, …
Flat Tyre, Redux.
Guest blogger Anton Angelo is back – with some bad news…
When I told people that my first post for Cycling in Christchurch was going to be about my never having had a flat they rolled their eyes, and warned …
Guest Post: How did a 50-year-old get back into cycling?
Here’s another guest blog, this time by a recent convert to riding, Robyn M. Speed:
I blame my son, Andy.
It’s a bit unfair to blame him really, when it all came about because he crashed his bike on the …
Tyres, and an introduction from a newbie.
New guest contributor Anton Angelo has a few thoughts about his bike tyres…
I’ve never had a flat tyre. Never. There are two reasons for that – the first is I have only been cycling for a couple of …
Meerkat Apprehensions and Funny Thoughts
After that Soft Brush with the Law recently, I have had little Meerkat Qualms about riding sans helmet. Meerkats scare easily and after only two sleeps, I was a little bundle of apprehension.
So imagine my chagrin when I hopped …
Summer Solstice pimp-my-ride
I’m really looking forward to the summer solstice ride around Hagley Park this Friday. For one thing, this time I’ll be able to see where I’m going; I couldn’t see a thing on the Winter Solstice ride! So many …
Threeseater Bicycle riding opportunity 15th December
Meerkats can spot some fun things because we sit up nice and straight; here’s one for Saturday 15th December. Check out this one here.
This Saturday the 15th is the last leg, and they wanted to do something special …
Co-operative Design
Lately members of many online communities have co-operated together to develop all sorts of complex and useful programs despite the members being spread far and wide around the world. Should this online community be looking at co-operating to design our …