Auckland
Maybe John Banks will fix this...
Dick’s lot didn’t… Watch out for the Waterview, Auckland, "Cyclepath" The Auckland Waterview Cycle-path should offer safer cycling than the adjacent very busy road but it currently has...
Cycling
QotD: Some Sunny Sunday
Where is your favourite place to be on a sunny Sunday afternoon? Submitted by Rev Stan. On a bicycle!
Cycling
Guy visits Trek Cycles - A photo tour
Guy Kawasaki’s tour of Trek Cycles is an interesting look behind the scenes of the company that built Lance Armstrongs bike! How to Change the World: My Visit to Trek: Two Guys in a Barn The Disc...
Bikes 'too dangerous' for school?
No wonder the traffic is delightful when the schools are on holiday. I pity the youth of today being driven, or if over 15 driving themselves, to school and missing the freedom, adventure and occasion...
Le Tour de Fromage - The Tour de France with cheese
Only a crazy Aussie who loves cycling and cheese could come up with this! Kirk Food - Le Tour de Fromage - WebLog The 2007 Tour de France starts on the 7th of July. In an attempt to offer someth...
David Byrne on cycling
I wonder how much of his music was inspired by cycling… David Byrne Journal: 6.18.07: Bicycles in NYC I have been riding a bicycle in New York City for almost 30 years! For transport, not for sp...
Watch out for the Waterview, Auckland, "Cyclepath"
The Auckland Waterview Cyclepath should offer safer cycling than the adjacent very busy road but it currently has a nasty crack which will swallow destroy a bike wheel. It hasn’t happened to me but...
Benmore and Otematata, today and yesterday - TVNZ ondemand connects two generations
Part of a recent cycle tour involved an overnight stay at Otematata and lap of Lake Aviemore (over Benmore Dam). Most, even me the “token Kiwi”, were puzzled why there’s a 60 room hotel and little els...
Back from "the Maniototo"
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Shutdown Week ends, back from "the Maniototo" Shutdown week is over. It was a brilliant week of cycling in the South Island, mainly an area known as “the Maniototo". It’s a remote...
The time has come to shutdown...
RobiNZ CAD Blog: The time has come to shutdown... I’m not going to participate in the March 24th Shutdown Day as I’m going further and having a Shutdown Week! I will be cycling in the South Island with Adventure South. The blue dashed line on the map below
Aviation
Cycling to see the Boeing 757 aerobatics
I went for a couple of bike rides last weekend In an effort to get a few km’s practice in before the trip. Saturday’s had an aviation theme as headed up to Whenuapai Airforce base to watch, from the r...
Not a New Years Resolution
I don’t believe in New Years Resolutions but I did start off the year with my first cycle ride since LAST APRIL. How bad is that! It was the easy 65km waterfront ride . Ok, I’ll be honest and ad...