Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
Image: SLF 2018 Hey, bike nuts! Welcome back! The last week has been super crazy getting ready, because… A while back, my regular creative collaborator and friend Claire Tracey and I put together a roving performance idea and application for the upcoming 2018 Sustainable and Living Festival (SLF)- and we got the news it was …
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Last weekend was the 10th anniversary of the Kurilpa Derby in Brisbane. It is a fantastic annual community celebration of life on wheels. The Kurilpa Derby is a major social and community event where the main street of the West End (Brisbane) is blocked off for the afternoon and taken over by all things colourful, …
Are you a bike lover and in Brisbane tomorrow (Sat 16th September)? Want to see some kool bikes? Like Low-riders? Kustoms? Vintage? Rusty Rats? Something a lil’ different? If so, grab ya bike and a mate and head down to this event! Below are a few details to get you started. Leki and I’ll be …
This time last week, I headed in the afternoon with Leki into Brisbane city to participate riding ‘The Big Push for Road Safety’ event hosted by Space for Cycling (BNE). It was an awesome event! All the riders gathered in town where there were some speeches and time to socialise. It was great to see so …
Next Sunday (27th August), Space for Cycling Brisbane is hosting The Big Push for Road Safety ride. This is a well-timed event as it coincides with Queensland’s Road Safety Week. From the information provided online, this event is a proactive, peaceful and family-friendly reminder from all manner of Brisbane cyclists to policy-makers for cycling to be …
Hi bike nuts! Earlier this week I returned from Adelaide (SA) after presenting a roundtable session at the national Australian Walking and Cycling Conference (AWCC). I put together a kick-ass abstract to present a workshop earlier this year and in May I was accepted to present. It was awesome! I had a great time and made …
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Yesterday I attended the annual English Australia (Queensland Branch) PD Fest. My ride into UQ, St Lucia on Leki my flower bike put me in a particularly good mood. It was a beautiful morning despite the clean up still happening due to (ex-) cyclone Debbie having passed through. Although I admit to stopping on the …
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Two months ago the Bicycles Create Change blog started posting on Instagram. This happened as a result of a conversation I had with a friend. I went through the usual excited and overzealous initial period or exploring, locating and investing in producing and posting images and its truth be told I enjoyed the whole precess …
Hooray!! Today in Australia it is the first day of summer!! Woopee!! Summer is especially exciting living in the Brisbane bayside area. I can’t wait to ride on summer! For me it means long afternoon rides along the foreshore with everyone out and about. I love going for a cruise along the boulevard in the late …
I’m gearing up (pun intended) for this weekend’s Singlespeed World Championship (SSWC) 2016 – the Carni-velo festival of the bike in Woodend, VIC. I’ve been so looking forward to this weekend – and have been getting more and more excited about it since I entered back in July (with a post of my favourite Singlespeed videos). …