Cycling Rules

If you're looking to check up the Queensland rules of the road (as they relate to riding your bicycle) i found them here.

Letterbox Chat

Arriving home today, i was checking my letterbox when a local jogger bails me up to talk electric bikes. Apparently it was the first time he had been able to catch-up to someone riding one, to have a chat.

He is interested in getting one, and was after the perspective of someone who had ridden one a bit.

I think i was able to help him out, explaining how it took the yucky sweatyness out of riding (which is especially handy when commuting in summer). Probably what had most effect was that i was standing there, having just ridden 6-7kms on a humid 27 degree day, wearing trousers and two layers of shirts - and i wasn't yucky, nor particularly out-of-breath.

Yay for electric bikes!

Damp But Happy

To say there was a bit of rain around Brisbane today would be very much the understatement. The slippery roads caused an accident or two, which apparently was the cause of the city wide gridlock.


As i rode home, I didn't know the cause of the gridlock, but was feeling more than a bit pleased with myself as i cruised past kilometres of stationary traffic. (I try not to be smug, but it's really difficult ;)

About 20 minutes of riding and i was home. Sure, i was a bit damp (there were still showers about) but 5 minutes after getting home i was warm and dry. Meanwhile those poor motorists are probably still out there, watching their fuel tank slowly empty itself.

ps. i'll have to remember this story the next time someone tells me that driving a car is gives them 'freedom' and 'independence'. :)