A new Bike Hub is coming. Could you be their technician?
The Chinese Conservation Education Trust is opening a Mt Eden Bike Hub. Could you be their new technician?
Riding with Pride: why a bike is the perfect Pride Month partner
Pride and bikes are a natural match, celebrating visibility, freedom, and joy. This Pride Month, show up and ride with Pride.
An e-bike lending scheme changed what my next ride will be. Could it change yours?
An e-cargo bike could be the perfect vehicle for me. But I don’t know a lot about e-bikes, let alone e-cargo bikes. A 2-week loan from an e-bike lending scheme turned out to be exactly what I needed.
How to Get More People Cycling in Your Local Community
Here are three great tips from the pros for how to inspire a love of cycling in our local area.
Bike Hub opens in Manurewa – here’s why
Let’s celebrate a new Bike Hub joining the network: Manurewa. Reesh Casey who runs the Hub explains how Bike Hubs help the community in this poetic speech.
Decorate thy bike parking with yarn – a ‘How-to’ guide from Yarn for Pride
Every year, in celebration of Pride Month (February) and the growing local cycle facilities, Rainbow Riders Tāmaki Makaurau create ‘Yarn for Pride’, decorating the cycle parking along Karangahape road with colourful and funky knitted or crocheted scarves. Not only does it bring a smile to passers-by, but it’s also easy for beginner knitters and crocheters to get involved.
Want to do something similar or get involved? Read on for some tips.
Let the cities smell of perfume instead of the smell of exhaust
Last Sunday in an early celebration of car free day (coming up this Friday 22 September), the Auckland Fancy Women Bike Ride took to the city streets of Tāmaki Makaurau […]
The Reanimators, part two
Earlier this month I became a proto-reanimator, joining Loop Groop’s Build Your Own Bike workshop in Eden Terrace. It’s a learn-by-doing experience in assembling your own ride from the groopies’ […]
The Reanimators: Revenge of the Klein
Our apartment building had a problem: abandoned bikes. Deep in the basement carpark there were loads of them, all flat tyres and thickly layered dust. The miserable things, long since […]
