A few years ago I had an email from a reader (and my apologies that it’s taken this long to respond to it!):
I ride my bike every day in my rounds as a support worker visiting people’s homes …
Tag: Health
A heads-up about the bike helmet rule
There’s been an interesting flurry of discussions in the past few days, following the news that Regulation Minister David Seymour sought advice on the possibility of removing mandatory cycling helmet requirements. The upshot (for now at least) is that …
Flashback Friday: What if… cycling was (already) safer than driving?
Today is of course Anzac Day, when we come together to honour those who have sadly died in various battles around the world. Closer to home, tragically we have also lost a few people cycling this year including two in …
In the spotlight: Meg Christie, getting communities cycling
Meg Christie is an active transport health promoter for Canterbury’s community public health service. Her job is about finding ways to make it easier for people to walk and cycle places. This involves influencing public policy (for example, by making …
Flashback Friday: Cycling solo – useful “Alone Time”
Did you know that this week is NZ Mental Health Awareness Week? The aim is to raise awareness and understanding of something that affects a lot of NZers either permanently or (more often) temporarily when life throws something at …
Flashback Friday-ish: Cycle paths – important for keeping our aging population fit and well?
It says something about the crazy busy week I’ve just had that even managing to do a regular Flashback Friday on time (let alone any other blogpost) escaped me. So as I finally get some R&R time on the weekend, …
Flashback Friday: Cycling and making sense of life
Mental health seems to be getting a bigger airing these days, with more and more people realising that we don’t all have good days (or weeks, or months…) and sometimes we need to talk to someone about that or find …
Flashback Friday: The sanity of cycling
Nearly seven years on from this Mar 2015 post, and a new job later, but the crazy-busy-ness in my life is still there – and I have been feeling a bit sniffly again this week (not Covid fortunately…). That’s …
Flashback Friday: Biking and COVID-19 in Christchurch
And so, here we are again… a few Covid cases locally and we have another full-on lockdown to contend with, and all that goes with that. At time of publishing, we don’t know yet whether Christchurch might get an early …
Biking Activities in Mar 2021
The month of March is already a few days in but, now that we’re about to move back down to COVID Level 1, there’s a lot more certainty about what is coming up this month (don’t jinx it……
Flashback Friday: Biking – Easier on the Body
Some recent heel niggles while out running have reminded me of how much easier it is when I can just hop on my bike and knock off a few kms that way instead. Similar thoughts were going through my head …
Cycling in Chch 2020: The Power of a Bike…
It’s that time of the year when we reflect on what has been happening cycling-wise in Christchurch in past 12 months and also look ahead to the coming new year. If I had to pick a theme this past year, …
Flashback Friday: The spirituality of cycling
Some people often claim that biking seems like a religion to them (or to their other half, if they’re a a long-suffering partner of a biking fan…). So perhaps it wasn’t surprising that our own Steve Muir put that to …
Flashback Friday: Cycling and Health
It almost seems to be a given these days that most people recognise the health benefits of physical activity like cycling. But that hasn’t always been the case (especially when people overinflated the “danger” of cycling vs the danger of …
Biking activities in May 2020: a bit more?
Another month and things are slooowly getting back to some semblance of normal (here’s hoping that new “normal” includes a lot more ongoing appreciation for the joys of biking!). We’re still at Level 3, so you are a bit limited …
Guest Post: Lockdown Latest – The Family Bike Bubble
8/04/2020 Stuff National:
“Data of weekly traffic flows in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton and Dunedin shows that, compared to the previous year, traffic is down between 74 and 82 per cent.”
10/04/2020, Smartview Christchurch:
- Rutland Reserve Cycle Counter
What to do in Apr 2020 – Ride your Bike!
Well I didn’t think I’d be writing an article like this, but here we are. The start of the month is of course the usual time when we talk about what is happening bike-wise in Christchurch for the coming few …
Biking and COVID-19 in Christchurch
What a difference a week makes… this time last week, we were all discussing how to limit our interactions with others as we got on with our daily lives in a COVID-19 world, then suddenly: lockdown upon us and …
Guest Post: A Car Free Life
I guess many people right now might be learning to deal with a life without work, socialising, and many other things we take for granted. For Alastair Brown and his family, living without a car has been something they’ve dealt …
Flashback Friday: Cycling and making sense of life
What a difference a week makes… My week has been fairly busy out of town (hence the lack of posts), but it may well be the last trip away for a while, thanks to a certain virus cancelling things everywhere… …