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The inside of a public toilet at Kawakawa. Designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser who had retired to that town. (yes I had to use it) Tour buses from cruise ships all stop by. Hundertwasser has since died. Kawakawa's other claim to fame is that the railway line runs down the...

Our local council has recently installed these at various points around the city. Tools on the ends of the chains are allen keys, sockets, screwdrivers, even a foot operated pump with a gauge.

The law here requires that license plate and the rear lights be unobstructed. The cops don't worry us too much about it but now-n-gain you get a new guy who will usually give a warning. The Thule rack I have has provision for lights and a "supplementary" number plate. Some have a 6x1 piece of...

Not mine pinched off the internet. (we don't have bears)

I have a bit to do with a recreational cycle group and of the 60 to 80 who turn up each Wednesday morning I'd say 75% are on ebikes. My "scenic" group (read slowest but we still get along 18 to 20Ks per hour) the other day had 12 riders and 11 were on ebikes. Can't comment on the number of...

We had a woman in our group bought an expensive mountain bike, non electric (paid about 4k). Nine days later she came over to ride and on the way home stopped off at a shopping centre. The bike was secured to a bike rack on the back of her (older) Land Rover. She only had a quick look around...

I have the Thule easyfold rack and use it on a towball which is plugged into the hitch on my Sportage The securing pin is only 1.5" from the end, as shown on the Right illustration in the drawing in post No5. However the hitch is 9.5" long and 8" down is a 19mm nut welded to the underside...

Been to Cairns, Brisbane and Sydney but not biking. That map gives people an idea just how big Ozzie is.

I usually carry: wet weather gear, tube, medical kit, and as I claim, enough tools to change the wheels on a 747. I usually ride as Tail End Charlie to anything up 20/25 others in the group so I usually come across any event which has happened on the ride. So far we've had broken chain, broken...

As far back as the 60s Vance Packard wrote a book The Waste Makers which was about Consumerism. "The book argues that people in the United States consume a lot more than they should and are harmed by their consumption". It commented that manufacturers design products to fail 1 day after the...

Had that happen to me. Traveled well out of town for a group ride. They all took off into the distance and I was left back in the carpark with no power. The display comes on but there is no power to the motor. Has happened 3 or 4 more times (over 2 years) and found that removing the battery and...

Ride of contrasts the other day. That's steam coming from a vent in the ground just besides Diana's wheel. The steam in front of the wheel comes from the vent in the left foreground of the photo. The yellow on the rocks is sulfur. The other photo is on the trail around the Blue Lake about 10...

First bike I had had rim brakes. They were 'all right' for slowing down but some places I'd get off and walk. No confidence in them keeping my speed down on long steep downhills. Second and third bike were both hydraulic discs. the difference is night and day. Friends with mechanical discs...

Hydraulic disc brakes. Don't even consider anything else.

looks like an upmarket tuk-tuk

Yeah I can just see it now. Family decide to go to the beach for a picnic. Mum gets on the bar of the bike, kids in a trailer on the back Picnic table on the rear carrier. At the beach Dad's to knackered to play with the kids besides he has to keep his strength up because he still has to...

Walking it you have time to look down. Riding you're too busy looking where you are going. The bridge is well maintained but has been there 70 or 80 years.

Took a group of 17 riders (13 on ebikes) along part of the Waikato River Trail. One bridge was not for the faint hearted. Temp was 28C

A couple of months ago I posted a photo of a bridge we rode over on a group 55k ride. That bridge has just now taken out the top award for pedestrian bridges, at the Institute of Structural Engineering Structural Awards in London