Photo of the week: Green
Green [adjective]: fresh; the colour of spring growth; also, easy on the planet. Shown: Carlton Gore Road, as photographed by Steve King, via Instagram. If you have great images you’d like to propose for […]
Photo of the week: Space
Space [noun]: The final frontier; also, that which makes a city navigable for everyone, especially when explicitly designated and protected. [Quay St pictured. Photograph by ScottieT Photography Ltd. If you have great images you’d like to […]
Riding in Auckland traffic – tips from a new arrival
Some say vehicular cycling – i.e. riding your bike as if you were driving a car – is going out of style as cities start building off-road cycleways and protected bike lanes. And it’s true that […]
Project Glow Wear – a contest for bright designers
After dark, and especially in winter it’s so important to be visible on our bikes – and that means not just hi-vis, but reflective gear. But – can we be honest? […]
Bike Kumeunity – does what it says on the tin!
They’ve got the best name and an impressive membership already. Meet the newly formed ‘Bike Kumeunity’… The small semi-rural district of Kumeu on the northwest edge of Auckland is composed […]
Deaf adventures on wheels – a sign of the times
At the Great Auckland Bike Market in June, you might have spotted an adventurous group of riders talking to each other in NZ Sign Language. Christopher Dempsey caught up with […]
50+ Shades of Grey – beyond the surface
Our resident storyteller Simon Vincent discovers that riding round the city stimulates thoughts on a whole spectrum of brilliant possibilities… I love the views I get from riding my bike: I […]
Meet Max – the hardest working man in Bike Auckland
Max Robitzsch, our infrastructure guru – although he prefers the milder term ‘infrastructure liaison’ – might just be the hardest-working man in Auckland bike advocacy. He’ll tell you himself that even after a long […]
Getting Your Hands Dirty With Tumeke
Just off Karangahape Road, at the bottom of a nondescript commercial street neatly bisected by a cavernous Southern Motorway, is a little hub of community goodness. It’s called Tumeke Cycle […]
