Happy New Gear (Year) – and Happy New Decade!
Another amazing year to explore our local surrounds and beyond on two wheels!
Whatever you ride and however often you ride it – now is the time to reinvigorate you and your beloved bicycle!
How about this year, sharing your love of cycling beyond your normal routine and friendship group? This is easy to do – here’s a few quick and easy ways to kick of 2020 with a positive cycling spirit:
- arrange a bicycle picnic event for friends with kids
- go for a ride somewhere new (without a map)
- make an effort to talk cyclists you have never met before
- help someone who has not ridden in a while get back on the bike
- undertake your own fundraising bike ride challenge
- reduce your cycling gear and donate the rest to those in need
- show a daughter how to change a bike tyre
- pick up rubbish along your favourite bike routes
- make some rides completely technology and device-free
- throw some native seed bombs into vacant land as you ride past
- spend a day helping out a bike charity
- catch yourself saying ‘girls’ to women riders, just call them ‘cyclists’
- when buying biking gear, question consumption, packaging and waste practices
2020 is also shaping up to be a big year internationally. Here are some key global events coming up in 2020.
- The US will have their presidential elections.
- 2020 Rover Space Mission: Mars 2020 will join Curiosity to explore Mars.
- The Great South American Eclipse (Dec 14th) will be best seen in Argentina.
- Medical Breakthrough: New peanut allergy therapy/treatment.
- The 2020 Summer Olympics will be in Tokyo. Along with all the other summer sports, this Summer Olympics will also include 5 new sports: Karate, baseball/softball, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing.
- 2020 is the UN International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). This means 2020 is dedicated to raising awareness about plant health and the impact of healthy plants and forests on food security, poverty, economic development, and sustainability.
- 2020 is the year of the White Metal Rat in the Chinese Zodiac. The rat is the first all of the zodiac animals and is associated with the Earthly Branch and midnight hours. The rat is yang in energy and linked to new beginnings, wellness, wisdom, wealth and surplus. Very fortuitous!
There is so much going on this year!
So, whatever your plans are and wherever you are – happy new year!
I hope all your 2020 biking (and other) adventures are safe, fun and constructive.
Thank you to all the readers and supporters of this blog.
2019 was a hectic year and it was lovely receiving emails of encouragement, projects to follow up on and suggestions for posts.
Thank you very much all! I appreciate it so much!
2020 will be big year for me.
This year I will be travelling to Africa for my PhD bicycle research fieldwork, revamping a new look for my flower bike Leki and initiating a few new community bike projects.
As always, I will be documenting all on this blog – so stay tuned!
I’m excited to continue sharing with you the many glorious ways in which bicycles create positive personal, community and environmental change!
Happy 2020 all!
