“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget” --Mario Cipollini
You know it's been a while between posts when your own mother starts chipping you about not updating your blog...
As I said last week,
vision and visibility are what I'm after in my bike lights. But enough of the theory, how do I make it work in practice?
"There is overwhelming evidence when children walk or cycle to school they are better off physically and in terms of their social and emotional wellbeing" --Todd Harper, VicHealth.
In southern latitudes, daylight saving has recently ended and commuting cyclists find themselves suddenly plunged into darkness in the early evening. It's around this time every year that Bicycle Victoria rightly reminds riders to
Light Up.
"A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method." --Dave Moulton
Note to would-be bike path racers: if you want to "bury" me as you pass, make sure you can sustain your pace...
"...things are getting a bit grippy down there..." --Phil Liggett
As I headed off this morning, I confidently predicted that the mess from Saturday's storm would all be washed away by last night's rain. It just shows how wrong you can be...