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Archive for April, 2007

Bonkers in the Bike Lane

( Melbourne and Heh! and Grrr! )

Bizarre bike lane oddities revisited…

What would Jesus…?

( Heh! )

“What would Jesus drive?” is kind of the wrong question, isn’t it?

Of course it was the lawyers!

( Melbourne and Rant and Heh! and News and Grrr! )

I detect the work of the hired legal help in the recent glaring balls-up in the Terms and Conditions for this year’s Around the Bay ride…

ANZAC Day tour of the eastern suburbs

A tour of the eastern suburbs on ANZAC Day: Glen Waverley, Vermont, Blackburn, and Box Hill.

Bike Power in The Big Issue

( Melbourne and News )

This week The Big Issue reports on the surging popularity of bikes in Australia. (Go buy yourself a copy.)

Paths Less Travelled

An Audax ride reminds me that the bike paths of Melbourne are a quiet delight.

Mobile phones and the dickhead count

( Rant and Grrr! )

Is increasing mobile phone usage by cyclists an indication of a rising dickhead count?

Kosky: Minister for Passing the Buck

( Melbourne and Rant and News and Grrr! )

If Minister Kosky isn’t interested in running the public transport system she should step aside in favour of someone who is.

Two-Wheeled Love Affair

( Melbourne and Heh! )

You know something’s up when you receive Spokey Dokes for Christmas, and pink handle-bar streamers for your birthday. They weren’t given as a novelty gift or accident, you actually wanted them. Correction—your bike wanted them. Needed them.

No tour coaches in Swanston St? Yes!

( Melbourne and Rant and News )

I can’t say I’m particularly disturbed by the suggestion to ban tourist coaches from Swanston St. In fact, I’m delighted.

Pull over, driver. And get off that phone!

( Melbourne and Rant and News )

Let’s get behind the wheel and do anything other than pay attention to the road….

Bike number plates: dumb idea redux

( Melbourne and Rant and News and Grrr! )

Leader Newspapers finds another non-story on cycling, this time in Preston.

Helping drivers understand hand signals

( Heh! )

Because they are so confusing, aren’t they?

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