So we’re getting to the pointy end of another three years of Government. I am encouraged at least by the results across the Pacific where the US mid-term elections have delivered a sweeping democratic blue wave across the country (even …

It was a little over three years ago that a temporary cycleway was installed along Rolleston Ave and Park Tce to make room for the refurbishment works happening in the adjacent Canterbury Museum. The new cycleway continued to cause angst …

Amazing to think it has been already three years since the last General Election and now it’s time to do your civic duty again in a few days (although you can already cast your vote now too).

It’s arguably …

Having just returned from a conference in Sydney, it seemed opportune while I was there to also have a look around the central city and see how cycling is faring there.

Sydney has had a fairly stop-start approach to …

I’ve just spent the past week attending the Australasian Road Safety Conference in Sydney; some useful and interesting lessons and takeaways in there. Cycling safety topics certainly featured across several sessions (including Tom Flood’s insightful keynote presentation), and it …

I’m currently in Sydney attending the Australasian Road Safety Conference here; some interesting sessions so far. I also got to have a bit of a wander around last weekend and check out a few bits of their impressive cycling network …

Last weekend, the front gear cable on my bike snapped, so it’s been a frustrating week of either getting by riding in low gear or swapping out to another bike. And the bike shops are all chocka busy with repairs …

The other day my partner and I were biking over to Addington to attend the Christchurch Home Show. On the way, the route took us past the overbridge construction work currently underway on Brougham St, so it seemed an …

As a thank you for my Biketober seminar presentation a couple of weeks ago, I got given a lovely sage green Biketober t-shirt featuring a “Tube”-style map of Christchurch’s cycle network (kudos to Adam Lines for the great design …

It was incredibly sad to hear about the death a week ago of a cyclist near Governors Bay, in what appeared to be a freak chain of events – my sincere sympathies to his family. Looking at the road in …