Treadly and Me

Vote 1 Akermanis?

Footballer Jason Akermanis fancies himself a future politician. And if he retains his pro-cycling policy, he might just get our vote. Maybe. Perhaps. Possibly. No promises. But we’d think about it.

Ride that line (or not)

Jan Chipchase asks: How do you know whether a line is designed to be followed? Or when it marks the border between two states?

More pragmatically, I ask: What the hell were they thinking to put that rail there?

Closing a gap on the Bay Trail

Bracksie has lashed out $1 million for the Frankston end of the Bay Trail.

“Hot bitch” on Yarra Trail

The job of resurfacing the Yarra Trail between St Kev’s Boatshed and MacRobertson’s bridge is nearing completion.

Night landings on Gardiners Creek Trail

Stonnington Council plans to install solar powered lighting studs along a stretch of the Gardiners Creek trail.

Turn-and-look: some data

While turn-and-look events are common there is a very low likelihood (3%) that a pedestrian, on hearing a bicycle bell, will react in a manner that impedes the line of the bicycle and endanger themselves and/or the cyclist.

Ring my own bell

What does a bicycle bell mean in Australia? It’s a bit hard to tell, but it’s certainly not the same thing that it means in Germany.