Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
I remember reading this story ages ago – and it really stuck with me. As a bike rider and dog owner, there is nothing more appealing than hitting endless trails on bikes with a furry mate. For our honeymoon, husband and I took the bikes and Zoe and spent three weeks driving up the east …
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Happy holidays all! Instead of celebrating Christmas, I celebrate the holidays. As we wind up for the year, my thoughts turn to ‘t(r)ail’ holidays and riding bikes with four-legged friends. The December break is a wonderful time to get out and visit your favourite trails and explore new ones. Riding mountain bike trails with your …
Continue reading “Holiday rides with trail dogs: Rosco & Lacy”
Dear Quivering Bee, I am a community bike rider and researcher living in Brisbane Australia. I live with a gorgeous kelpie named Zoe and a bike named Kissime and we have spent many happy years riding bikes together. I have a blog and we regularly post about dogs and bikes, see for example: A Dog’s …
Many trail riders are what you might call ‘outdoor people’. One of the greatest delights trail riders can have is going for a ride on wicked trails with best mates. And when I say best mates, I mean two-wheeled (of course), but also two-legged (human mates) and four-legged (trail dogs) mates. I love riding trails …
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While scouring the internet this week, I came across an article by artist Ian Cheng called Worlding Raga 6: World to live. Initially, it was his bike drawing that caught my eye. I ended up reading the article and appreciated Ian’s whimsical interaction with a flock of bicycles – one of which calls out to …
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Yesterday was the US National Dog Day. In honour of this dog-gone day – today offers a smattering of pooch-and-bike tit-bits. This post is dedicated to my own amazing trail dog, Zoe! Many more happy trails to come! NG. Image: Nina and Zoe (Forest, VIC). Happy US National Dog Day The American national holiday Dogs …
Happy New Year all! I hope you have been enjoying your time on and off the bike – and gearing up for another productive year! Regular readers know that BCC is not your average mainstream cycling blog ….. it is anything but! For my first post of 2021, I am revisiting this blog’s manifesto and …
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Hooray! Finally! Our New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) is back on! The March NM SIG is our first meeting back for 2021. I’m so happy! Because we are reconvening after the New Year break, we wanted to offer the opportunity for participants to reconnect more directly. So instead of going straight into guest …
Continue reading “New Materialisms SIG: How to work with and ‘write-up’ ‘data’.”
@CyclingBrisbane Instagram Takeover This week I have been invited to take over Cycling Brisbane’s Instagram account. This is an ongoing initiative that gives an individual or organisation the opportunity to control the Cycling Brisbane (@cyclingbrisbane) Instagram account for 7 days. This is a great way to showcase community members and local biking groups various interests, …
Congratulations on making it the end of 2018!! What an epic year it has been. This year was full of highs and lows and presented some incredible opportunities. As we draw to the close of 2018, this is the perfect time to review what worked, what didn’t work, changes that need to be made and …