Cycling
Bamboo Biking
This is neat, a bamboo mountain bike! Bamboo MTB Frame - Brano Meres This is my second home-made frame. This time I used bamboo instead of carbon composite tubes…
Cycling
Adventure South
Cycle Trip Quick Update
This is a quick update, will do proper posts when home. excuse the typo's racing the meter on a kiosk machine After a day in Dunedin joined the group. There are 8 cyclists + the two guides on this trip. It's a special only advertised to previous
Adventure South
Holiday - Not just from blogging
Things will be quiet here for a couple of weeks as I’m heading of on another Cycling tour with Adventure South. This time its to “The Catlins” which is the southern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. I just hope it doesn’t snow
Cycling
Mt Taranaki Cycle Ride - Sea level to +960m and back!
I took my bicycle to New Plymouth last weekend as found a road on the map that looked interesting. Egmont Road climbs from the coast to the Mt Taranaki North Egmont Visitor Centre. I had been up there by car many years ago but thought it would a good ride
Muriwai – Old North Rd Cycle
It was another fantastic day today with clear blue skies. I went for a ride to Muriwai; a black sand west coast surf beach about 40km north of Auckland. A few rural roads have been sealed that mean you can now do most of this trip without going near the
Waitemata Harbour cycle loop
Another glorious day (28/02/2005): went for a bike ride around the top end of Auckland Harbour then down the North Shore, crossing from Devonport to the city by ferry, and home. This 90km ride has a bit of everything as covers rural, suburban and city roads. Some hills
New road rules from today
Drive carefully, the road rules have changed. New road rules from 27 February 2005 From 27 February 2005, the new 'Road User' Rule will make it clearer what you should do at pedestrian crossings, special vehicle lanes (such as cycle and bus lanes) and roundabouts (particularly multi-lane roundabouts)
NEW Hamilton to Auckland Road Cycling event
Event Promotions, who run the very successful 100 K Flyer (Rotorua to Taupo), are going to stage a road cycling event from Hamilton to Auckland on 11th September 2005. Cycling News FLASH: New and exciting Hamilton to Auckland Road Cycle event to cater for all! It’s going to be
Science of Cycling
Just what it says, Science of Cycling from The Exploratorium. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 15,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
Music
Elvis's Birthday and Lawn Bowling?
Elvis died 27 years ago, aged 42. If not would he have spent his 70th birthday Lawn Bowling? Strange combination you might think? I was cycling today and went through Tui Glen Park. Its an old holiday camp/park by the river that is being re-developed into a public park.
Jim Langley — Bicycle Aficionado
This is a really interesting cycling site from Jim Langley who was the chief Technical Editor for “the world’s largest cycling publication,” Bicycling Magazine for 10 years (’89 to ’99). Loads of advice and links to other sites. Link: Jim Langley — Bicycle Aficionado.
Tour de France 2004 Blogs
Official Journal (French): Tour de France Unofficial Tour de France 2004 blog (English):Tour de France 2004