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Farmer Green

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 06:05:17 +1300

This issue is what we will be confronting when the "shared" pathway , currently under construction on our rural road , is finished.
The stupidity of having cyclists on a footpath will only be apparent when the first cyclist swerves onto the adjacent road and is killed by a passing…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:59:57 +1300

Definitely. Seems like there have been a couple of instances on this one with cyclists travelling too fast past walkers as well but it's the absolute minority being used as an excuse for outright banning. Sharing is indeed caring.

Rosemary McDonald

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:27:04 +1300

isn’t quite getting it right…

Hmmm...we had a bike v. wheelchair incident on the Kulim to Fergusson Parks section of this shared 'walkway' in Tauranga a couple of years ago.

The concrete path would have been no wider than that one in Nelson shown in the photo...the poor biker almost…

Peter Darlington

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:49:55 +1300

Meanwhile Nelson, which is frankly a cyclists Mecca, isn't quite getting it right...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/87612655/compromise-plan-for-maitai-walkway-approved

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:37:34 +1300

Vive la resistance!
Torque isn't cheap then?

Moz

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:34:51 +1300

maybe have magnets on the forks and a coil that picks up a pulse as it passes them

I might see if I can find some "reel lights" (brand) that someone has discarded because they're pathetic, and fit them wrong the round way, so the light is attached to the…

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 04 Jan 2017 09:50:27 +1300

A bit challenging to engineer:

– to have a directly driven dynamo, you'd need it to have something to torque against. A hub unit would be obvious (driven from the skewer) but it would need an entirely custom hub and wheel.
– you could maybe have a drive off a…

Bruce Wurr

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:44:34 +1300

Went on the walk today, it is a great place to go....was a bit surprised at the rails ending in different sections, so if you weren't too hot on the bike it would be pretty easy to go over.

That said, so pleased to see stuff like this, mangrove swamps…

Moz

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:52:50 +1300

Oh yes, there are a fucton of battery powered bike lights, even motion activated ones. I have owned a few different ones. The valve cap lights are actually annoying and not at all useful (we have some, but the little watch batteries they use seem like to last forever... they…

Hugh Wilson

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:14:00 +1300

For me theres progress being made on an infamous 'missing link' in Melbourne's bike network – a path several K's long linking the Yarra & Darebin trails, helped by some compulsory (golf club) land acquisitions and $18m public funding. Once this is completed I'd be able to ride from my house…

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:44:50 +1300

Elsewhere, the northwestern cycleway upgrade seems all but completed with the installation of these viewing platforms over the Waterview estuary and the Whau river.

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:33:15 +1300

Good stuff, Russell. Is there a good site where such paths are overlaid on a map. for non-Aucklanders to find them? I did find one site but the details were miniscule.

Bike Auckland has a good list – including a link to Daniel Cranston's crowdsourced map, which focuses on routes…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 10:04:12 +1300

Good stuff, Russell. Is there a good site where such paths are overlaid on a map. for non-Aucklanders to find them? I did find one site but the details were miniscule.
I have a Significant Birthday coming up and as a present to myself, I have put a deposit on…

Farmer Green

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:53:15 +1300

p.s: Happy New Year!!

Send 'er down Hughie !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Z4_UR4yd8

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:47:06 +1300

And these flashy numbers…
speaking of L.E.D.s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGYI9yFvsA&feature=youtu.be
(truly an oven/top production)

Russell Brown

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:44:49 +1300

An interesting commentary on the furore in Christchurch about plans to acquire and remove two properties to make a better cycleway:

What’s particularly ironic is that on the same day that a big fuss was being made about this proposal, The Press was also reporting on the sod-turning for new…

Rosemary McDonald

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:38:06 +1300

Not blinky, but very bling.....

And even more blingier...

And these flashy numbers...

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:28:44 +1300

We already had a single- lane tar- seal road.

...if there's a bustle in your hedgerow?

"They tore up the old road
and buried it under a new one.
I didn't mind."

'Road'
by Pete Brown
...and (unofficial 4th member of Cream

;- )

ps: Happy New Year!!

Farmer Green

Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:52:35 +1300

The council is putting lots of paths on green belts

All good right?
Our rural road has been selected for the treatment; get that damned grass off there ; weeks of scraping off the top soil ; lots of machinery rumbling ; pathways laid on top of the soil. Bugger…

Moz

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 23:36:21 +1300

the flash e-motion wheels

That reminds me, I'm still waiting for someone to make bike wheels with motion-powered blinky lights in them. You can get wheelchair castor wheels like that, and obviously skate wheels. But not bike wheels.

Sydney is one of those 25 council areas places, with a state…

Rosemary McDonald

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +1300

Seeing a lot more e-bikes on them too.

And perhaps the occasional wheelchair?

We'll park up at the Ellison St carpark. I'll unload Himself in his wheelchair with the flash e-motion wheels and send him off with a cheery haere ra.

Then watch him literally disappear into the distance.

This…

Glen Koorey

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:59:37 +1300

Christchurch continues to roll out more cycle routes (separated cycleways, shared pathways or neighbourhood greenways); over 5km built this past year, another 11km currently under construction and about 20km out for consultation:

http://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2016/12/30/cycling-in-christchurch-2016-the-cycling-city-continues-to-build/.

And if you want to check them out, you could always come to the Asia-Pacific Cycling Congress…

Russell Brown

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:27:09 +1300

Here’s what is happening around Napier. The council is putting lots of paths on green belts to link up with other existing cycle trails.

Ah. Nice to see another council doing the right thing.

Helps that Napier is pretty much flat most places also.

And that you have green belts!

Russell Brown

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:25:41 +1300

My local – looking NW toward Boulder, CO on the 18 mile US36 Bikeway

Utilitarian bike freeway!

Tony P

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:38:19 +1300

Here's what is happening around Napier. The council is putting lots of paths on green belts to link up with other existing cycle trails. Means I can cycle most of the way to school on a path now. Once these were finished the number of people using them has increased…

Zach Bagnall

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:37:24 +1300

My local – looking NW toward Boulder, CO on the 18 mile US36 Bikeway

Russell Brown

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 19:30:12 +1300

Jealous!

I might have to do some of the other sort of cycle touring – visit places to ride their bike paths :)

This kind of didn't occur to me until I took a couple of friends who'd freshly moved to Auckland from Wellington out along the northwestern cycleway and…

Moz

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:29:56 +1300

Jealous!

I might have to do some of the other sort of cycle touring – visit places to ride their bike paths :)

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Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:29:56 +1300

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