Category: General A2B by bike

Anything that is general or doesn’t fit anywhere else

Flashback Friday: Locky Dock stations popping up around town

As mentioned, a few months back, Locky Docks have been sprouting up all over Christchurch. In the next week or so, the team at Locky Dock want to say thank you to Christchurch bikers by offering free bike tune-ups …

Flashback Friday: Feeling the Love

Earlier this week, Star News featured a very nice article about one of our regular contributors Robert Fleming. Over more than a decade, Robert has contributed more than 60 blog posts (not counting Flashback Fridays), including updates on cycleway …

Flashback Friday Guest Post Part 6 – Cycling in Porto

Tracey and I are currently looking at plans for where we might head to in Europe next year. One of my friends is currently touring around Europe and recently visited Porto, the “City of Bridges”, in Portugal. And over a …

Flashback Friday: Council Rates and MCRs 101

No surprises that cycleways are one of the hot topics in this coming election, and will no doubt get some airing at the Mayoral Forum next Thu 4th Sep. A news article last week looked into the supposed extravagance …

Flashback Friday: Have your say on allowing Footpath Cycling

Hot on the heels of the recent Road Rule change announcements, including introducing footpath cycling for children, let me take you back nine years ago when an earlier proposal for this was being campaigned on, as reported in this …

Flashback Friday: Three years of “Cycling in Christchurch”

This weekend at the CAN Do being held here in Christchurch, I will be giving a little presentation about the Cycling in Chch website and its history and ongoing development. It’s been quite the journey for well over a decade, …

Flashback Friday – Photo of the Day: Cycle Counter Display

Last week we celebrated the notable milestone of the half-millionth bike traversing the Antigua Boatshed bridge cycle counter. Let’s look back to when it was first installed over six years ago, as reported in this blog post from June 2018…

Flashback Friday: Carrying stuff by bike

Some of my work colleagues have been getting new bikes lately (including making use of the clever new WorkRide scheme). Most of these have been e-bikes (which warrants a whole post about that one day…) and some have also been …

In the spotlight: Anne Scott, Allan Taunt and Fiona Bennetts

Among the many people helping to make Christchurch a great place for cycling are those who put a lot of time and effort into making submissions to improve the cycling environment. Three of those people – often fronting up to …

In the spotlight: Dave Johnson, sharing his skills and awesomeness

Cycling in Christchurch is all about regular people riding bicycles. But some of the many people who help make Christchurch a great place for cycling are anything but ordinary cyclists. Dave Johnson, RAD Bikes’ mechanics teacher and workshop manager, …

Flashback Friday: Cycling Missing in the Neighbourhoods

A growing group in Christchurch for discussing key urbanism issues is Greater Ōtautahi; last night they had the latest in a regular series of catch-up meetings. Land use and housing tend to be a big part of the conversations …

Flashback Friday: What do you wear when cycling?

For the past few weeks, it has certainly felt like winter has kicked in hard in Christchurch – can’t wait for spring to return! When you’re riding your bike to work or other destinations, that has meant some careful consideration …

In the Spotlight: Don Babe, advocating for Canterbury cyclists

Don Babe is a busy man. He works as an accountant, helps his wife run their Prebbleton blueberry farm, is long-time chair of Spokes Canterbury, and takes every opportunity to contribute to planning processes to create a better environment …