The Xmas / New Year break is over for most people and, while the weather is currently miserable, that is expected to improve by the weekend. And so it’s time to start rolling out a few fun cycling events to …
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Photo of the Day: Matai Cycleway Rail Crossing
It’s great to see the new Matai St East cycleway, now mirroring the older cycleway on Matai St West. As you heard recently, already it looks like it is a popular route for cyclists. But perhaps the price …
Flashback: Cycling in Copenhagen
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I’ve been lucky to get to visit many interesting places overseas and have dutifully reported about these back here on Cycling in Chch. But there have also been places visited before CiC started that might be of interest to …
Book Review: Short Easy Bike Rides
by Jonathan Kennett (131pp., Kennett Brothers Ltd, Wellington, RRP $24.90)
The Kennett Brothers have built up a well-earned reputation for cycling books in New Zealand, including guides to the best mountain-bike haunts, NZ cycling history, and touring on …
Fossil Fuel Free Coast to Coast leaves this Friday
This Friday 22 Jan there will be a never-before seen sight to be had. Four kayaks will be proceeding out of Christchurch being towed by tandem bikes, bound for the West Coast. The journey will take 6 days there and …
Guest Post: Statistics, Dollars, and the Intangible (Priceless) Benefits of Cycling
Guest blogger Robert has a look at his wallet (and a few other measures) this week:
It was good to see the recent post from Lennyboy sharing the reports of an increase in numbers of cycles using the shared Hagley …
Community Bike Workshops in Christchurch
Christchurch has two community bike workshops – ICECycles & RAD Bikes. Both have been doing great work over 2015, contributing thousands of volunteer hours to the community and here is an update on what has been happening.
ICECycles (Inner City …
Photo of the Day: Cycleways and Rubbish Day
Tennyson St is the grand-daddy of separated cycleways in Christchurch; it’s been around for well over a decade. So it pre-dates the introduction of the kerbside wheelie-bin rubbish and recycling scheme a few years back. I love this scheme; it’s …
First Count Data for New Cycleways
If you build it, will they come? That’s the question hanging over many new cycleway projects proposed in New Zealand. And when you’re talking about spending over $150 million on cycleways in Christchurch, quite a few people are interested in …
Where are your Favourite Places to Cycle?
It’s summer time and people are out enjoying the warmer weather in many ways (when the rain goes away…), including on their bikes. Maybe you’ve been able to try out some of the great places for cycling around Christchurch…
Photo of the Day: Rolleston Ave Shared Path
One of the more popular places to ride a bike in Christchurch is along Rolleston Ave in front of Christ’s College, Canterbury Museum and the Botanic Gardens. This section of shared pathway (mostly 3m wide) provides a useful connection to/from …
Cycling in Christchurch 2015 – The Year of Stuff Happening
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Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year. As we head into 2016, it is time once again to reflect on what has been happening cycling-wise here in Christchurch over the past year. And what a year it has been…
As …
Not-so-hidden Treasures: Hagley Park
New York might have its Central Park, but our jewel in the crown is of course Hagley Park. It’s a recreational and sporting home for all manner of activities, be it golf, cricket, jogging, canoeing, or just feeding the …
Photo of the Day: Xmas Shopping by Bike
‘Tis the season, and everyone is frantically rushing around getting their festive goodies. That tends to mean that traffic and parking get a bit crazy, which duly gets reported in the media (not that it’s really “news” if it happens …
Cycling and the Law: Where can you Ride your Bike?
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Having previously covered the innocuous legal question of what exactly constitutes a bike, we’ll now turn our attention to where exactly you can ride your bike (and some of the implications of that). Before we get too far into …
Photo of the Day: More new Cycle Lane Separators
We’ve waxed lyrical before about the simple tool of putting in some separator posts to keep motorists out of cycle lanes. They work just fine… when they’re there. But the new ones along Kahu Rd / Kotare St were slowly …
Would you like to see adult cycle training in Christchurch?
{NB: Online survey has now closed}
A question I get asked reasonably often is whether there is any cycle training for adults around Christchurch. Sadly, at the moment, the answer is “no, not really”. We have our wonderful Cycle Safe…
Photo of the Day: Cycle Lanes vs Parking
Given the recent fuss about cyclists stealing parking spaces, perhaps we should be reminded that often it’s the other way around. Memo to road designers and operations staff: if you’re going to fit a parking lane inside a cycle …
Cycling projects around Wellington
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It’s great to see so much happening around Christchurch on the cycling front, but we’re certainly not the only ones in NZ at present. The Urban Cycleways Programme is generating some great projects all over the country; for example, there …
Chch Mountainbike Park edges closer
For those of us who like to play on our bikes as well as get from A to B, there was promising news this week from the developers of a planned mountain-bike adventure park in the Port Hills. As reported …