bike Archive

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    Legs - by frog



    Nelson’s police force has taken up bicycling.  Good on them, especially for this bit of ‘kiwi ingenuity’: The special lights and sirens can be ordered from the United States for about $US300 ($NZ520), but police had rigged their own up for about a 20th of the cost. The siren was more like an air horn [...] read more
    November 12, 2008 3:26 pm - 6 Comments
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    Compare and contrast - by frog



    Helen Clark’s choice of transport, as covered in virtually every newspaper today, to get her to the Invercargill Working Men’s club yesterday was a Beechcraft Super King Air commandeered from the Air Force’s Ohakea base. Meanwhile, covered by just the one newspaper, the Gulf News (circulation 2,806), is Russel and the Greens’ Auckland Central Candidate [...] read more
    October 8, 2008 1:02 pm - 7 Comments
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    Car Free Day: Auckland - by frog



    There’s a whole bunch of South Shore Aucklanders on bikes who want to hang out with a whole bunch of North Shore Aucklanders but they can’t because there’s a small tract of water in the way and they are not allowed to pedal or walk across the bridge spanning the Waitamata Harbour. So at 2 [...] read more
    September 17, 2008 10:16 am - 6 Comments
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    The Harbour Bridge debate - by frog



    The internet seems to be awash with Aucklanders contesting the great ‘cycle across the harbour bridge’ debate (e.g Public Address and the Herald).  Or at least the debate that’s not happening because it seems the Auckland City council is not to keen to have it.  Not hard to guess my view obviously. Keith notes: This [...] read more
    September 4, 2008 2:15 pm - 11 Comments
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    Happy Birthday Velib - by frog



    Streetfilms has a video celebrating the first anniversary of Paris’s famous Velib system: On July 15, 2007 Paris debuted the world’s largest self-service “bicycle transit system” called Vélib outdoing previously designed bike share programs. Vélib is a balance of scale and functionality, clocking in with more than 20,000 bikes, and 1,451 docking stations, which are [...] read more
    July 16, 2008 9:12 am - 12 Comments
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    The Bike Man - by frog



    The Northern Advocate had a short little piece on Monday noting that cycling advocate and Civil Engineer Paul Dougherty is going to be the Green candidate for Whangarei.   Paul runs a successful cycle touring business in Northland and, according to the Advocate, is known about town as ‘the bike man’: “Never before have we needed [...] read more
    June 19, 2008 10:49 am - 10 Comments
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    A Japanese bike stacking robot - by frog



    If only we had the need for one of these cool things in Parliament! Sadly there isn’t quite the demand for a multi-story bicycle stacking robot yet. Hat tip: George Darroch read more
    April 29, 2008 12:17 pm - 3 Comments
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    Feeling the force - by frog



    Yesterday was Bike to Work Day in Wellington’s Civic Square. Sue Kedgley arrived on a three person tandem – a thrice-icle? However, coming to work these mornings doesn’t always look this serene; it can feel a little like a scene from Star Wars. Gigantic SUV Cruisers fill up what used to be large expanses of [...] read more
    November 8, 2007 3:27 pm - 23 Comments