CHAINLINKS 2012 Issue 3, October

Chainlinksmagazine of the advocates network (NZ) 2012 ISSUE 3, October should make our 2011–2012 financial Chainlinks Bike Month Editorial statement show a profit. CAN’s report on the Safer Cycling Pro- Promote your group in our Graeme Lindup gramme is at: http://can.org.nz/article/report- annual Bike Month issue of for-nzta-on-the-safer-cycling-programme In Chainlinks 3 2010 we reported on Chainlinks. Bring a local ad- a significant milestone, finishing the Central government is pushing the sector vertiser so we can have more Networking Project contract for the for a collaborative approach to cycling. colour pages. N.Z. Transport Agency (NZTA). We’ve An article in this issue from BikeNZ, our now completed another major NZTA partners in the Safer Cycling Programme, All content in by 5 December project, the Safer Cycling Programme. outlines where they are heading. CAN and BikeNZ are now refining with NZTA Email content to: For this we joined BikeNZ in a part- a substantial joint application to the [email protected] nership that developed from the joint Road Safety Trust. The initial discussions Pictures: >500kb, 1024 x 768 pixels BikeNZ/CAN response to the tragic cy- will be on whether a broad coalition of >1mb preferred clist deaths of November 2010. cycling interests can work together to de- Advertising: [email protected] liver sustained improvements in safety. by 5 December. Glen Koorey (CAN), Richard Leggat (BikeNZ), Barbara Insull (BikeNZ) and Our challenge will be to keep our ad- I met regularly to oversee three sub- vocacy voice while working with these projects, reviewing progress and ensuring organisations towards ensuring all road n collaboration. Project funding allowed users share the road safely. us to employ staff, supported by volun- Graeme Lindup is Chair of CAN teers from both groups. Jena Western of ably led CAN’s share of the work ($155,000) and delivered it to a sat- isfied NZTA. The return from the project The Three-seater Charity Ride Richard Steane, Byrdie Johnston and Jimmy Giffiths Be part of something fun, amazing day we will auction the third seat, with and different! From 24 November proceeds going to the three charities. to 14 December, we’re cycling from If you win the auction, you can do what Auckland to . Our ride you want with the seat. You could join will help three great charities: youth us for the day, give the seat to a friend or mentoring programme Big Brothers your Mum.... or you could even organise a group of your friends and take turns Big Sisters; the Shortbread Trust, joining us on the bike. You could arrange which supports a school in Nepal; and for friends and family to sponsor your Gap filler, which uses vacant sites in ride with us. CAN: Cycling Advocates Network Christchurch for creative projects. PO Box 6491, Wellesley St, We’d love to have you join us on the , New Zealand. This is a charity cycle ride with a dif- for a whole day, but you don’t have to. Tel 04 972 2552 ference. We have a three seater bike, but Perhaps you’d like to join us for a ride [email protected] only two of us will ride at any time. Each through your home town, or for a trip www.can.org.nz to a local café? We don’t mind – it’s your Registered Charity no.: CC36909 seat for the day! n Chainlinks ISSN 1175-9364 (print) ISSN 1174-3409 (online) [email protected] Editors: Miriam Richardson and Claire Pascoe

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2 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 3 Contents 2 Editorial 2 The Three-seater Charity Ride 3 Let’s Go New Plymouth! 4 i-Way update 4 CAN needs members 5 Spring-time cycling the Great Rides 5 Womenís Cycling Festival 6 Velo-City Global 2012 6 Bike NZ news 7 New Zealand stories 9 Cycle touring 11 What would it take? 12 CAN to launch Workplace Bikeability project 12 Lobbying is a numbers game 12 CAN committee activity Let’s Go New Plymouth! 12 CAN Special General Meeting 13 Safer Cycling programme Nathaniel Benefield share their learning with parents, and completed encourages family participation in New 13 CAN contacts Let’s Get Going Plymouth cycling clubs. 15 Effective advocacy: influencing ‘Power starts’ and ‘lifesaver looks’ are If this sounds like something you’d like social change – Part Two now a part of New Plymouth primary to run in your preschool, you’re in luck! 15 Cycling with dolphins school kids’ vocabulary, thanks to a The Let’s Get Going team is preparing 16 Regional groups well established programme of cyclist a How to toolkit in Te Reo and English, 17 Join up form and links with session plans, activity cards and skills training for years five through 18 Winter family biking ways to support the philosophies of kin- 19 New guidebook shows the way eight. dergartens, Kohanga Reo and 19 On the web Soon after children If you let school kids play centres. The toolkit will take their first steps, be available online, and we’re they look for small direct road safety investigating a printed resource wheels to tear about as well. To find out when it’s engineers… available, see our newsletter at Join CAN on on. In recognition of letsgo.org.nz this, Let’s Go (New . Plymouth’s active Join us in March 2013 Facebook travel programme), March 2013 The Let’s Go Experience Visit http://tinyurl.com/CANfacebk for news re- Sport Taranaki and find out what happened. leases, a courteous cycling code, pictures, Bike NZ have de- Have you ever wondered what events, discussion and more. veloped a pilot pro- would happen if you let school “It’s a useful way to raise CAN’s profile and gramme of pre- Workshops kids direct road safety engineers reach people who may not see themselves school skills training, and urban designers? We did, Forums as cycling advocates,” Patrick Morgan says. n Let’s Get Going, to and the results are fantastic! get preschoolers’ Tours Join us in New Plymouth for the riding off to a good meet the peoplep on Let’s Go Experience March 2013 start. Sport Taranaki’s (right before www.WOMAD.co.nz). Active Communities ‘people first’ streets Check. We’ll show you around Advisor is facilitating and discuss the lessons learned, the pilot, aiming to the projects completed and con- Dates to remember templated. We will host a series reach 3,000 North The Let’s Go Experience Taranaki under fives by June 2014. of workshops, speaker forums and op- portunities for you to chat with children March, New Plymouth Children bring their own bikes and and homeowners who’ve taken charge of helmets, which they check at the be- CANDo their ‘people first’ streets. ginning of the session. Next come balance Mar/Apr, North Island and eye-tracking exercises before they Registration details are at letsgo.org.nz 3-seater Charity Ride progress to on-bike skills like straight line (keyword search ‘experience’) or email Nov/Dec riding, braking and cornering. A handout [email protected]. n at the end of each session helps children

2 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 3 CAN needs members; you can help! David Hawke More members give an Addington Coffee Co-op signs on advocacy group like ours as a Supporting Member more lobbying power What’s your line of business in Christchurch? i-Way opening on and more income. CAN is ✦✦We’re a café selling fair trade coffee and locally made, Havelock North fortunate in having much environmentally friendly, ethically traded products. new pathway willing expertise among What’s your philosophy? i-Way update its members, who add ✦✦To be part of a local community and contribute to the enormous weight to our Owen Mata global movement toward fairness. advocacy; while our staff If you make the two kilometre jour- Do your staff cycle? make sure tasks are done ney between Hastings and Havelock ✦ well and on time. ✦Most come by bike, walking or public transport. North on a sunny day, you’ll see kids Why did you sign up? on scooters, joggers, families going for Our membership fees (in- ✦✦To be part of a city-wide endorsement of cycling. This dividual $35, family $40, ice-creams, people in mobility scooters is a crucial time for Christchurch, and the more grass- unwaged $20) are much and cyclists of all ages. roots voices the better. lower than those of most Already it’s hard to believe that only a few voluntary organisations, Did it take much persuasion when a CAN member asked months ago none of these people could making it easier to join. you to join? be seen — the landscape was simply a Organisations committed ✦✦Very little! stream of vehicles on a busy road with no to sustainability (see box) footpaths on either side. Completion of often take Supporter the biggest project in the iWay membership ($85) and cycle- programme has changed per- it now seems are listed in Chainlinks (p18). friendly workplaces. We’re a voice for cy- ceptions; it now seems silly that silly that it Each Chainlinks updates members cling in the media. Finally, we advise and it never existed before! never existed on CAN’s local and national ad- support local cycle advocacy groups. It’s been a big few months for vocacy. Nationally, we regularly If you’re not a member, we’d love you to iWay, with completion of the before meet organisations such as the NZ support our work by signing up at http:// initial two year Model Commu- Transport Agency and the Ministry can.org.nz/join-can Get friends and even nities programme including the Havelock of Transport. We undertake government your employer to sign up too! Cycling is North pathway and the 9 km pathway be- funded projects to improve safety; for enjoying a huge boost in public support. tween Hastings and the coast. About 800 example bus and If you work for a large organisation with people turned up for the ‘Tour de iWay’ truck driver work- an environment manager, ask! Or try your opening; we expected about 200. The day shops, and ‘share more lobbying café! If every CAN member got one or spectacularly proved what we believed the road’ and ‘stop power and more two people or organisations to sign up, when we started: that there’s demand for at red’ campaigns. the difference to our effectiveness would these pathways and that people see them Our Bikeability income be enormous. as worthwhile for their council to provide programme helps even in cash-strapped times. A video of employers to make the event is at www.iway.org.nz. The most rural iWay route so far is the Family of 6? No problem! 9 km pathway linking Hastings with the coast at Clive via the industrial area around Whakatu. Most of its off-road, with a distinctive wooden suspension bridge. This is now a commuting route for many people, and it links Hastings to the National Cycle Trails on the coast. We’re planning the opening, but it’s already seeing plenty of use. We want to continue to build on the iWay network in Hastings and so we’ve put forward a proposal to NZTA for a further 3 year programme, mostly concentrating on developing network connections such as across bridges and major roads. This is something that will be decided in Sep- tember 2012. n

Printed with permission of Bike Portland. Spring-time cycling the Great Rides The Queenstown Trail at Lake Hayes ©2012 New Zealand Cycle Trail

Suzanne Carter will be open by the end of 2013; many can Three Hawke’s Bay trails combine to already be ridden in part. All trails offer make another NZCT Great Ride. The The New Zealand Cycle Trail was different tastes of New Zealand. Some Water Ride, which opened earlier this created to generate economic, so- are easy, some are for more experienced year, has been well received. The Win- cial and environmental community riders, and all have surprises. And they’re eries Trail aims to open in November, benefits and world-class cycling. ‘Nga addictive, with people coming back for with flat terrain making for easy riding Haerenga — The New Zealand Cycle more. and relaxed exploration. The Landscape Trail’ (NZCT) will be a draw-card for The Queenstown Trail, under wraps Ride (43 km) explores the picturesque coastal communities bordering the international and domestic visitors till now, opens in October. This 90-plus coastline of the iconic Cape Kidnappers. and an addition to regional tourism kilometre trail in the Wakatipu Basin, connects Gibbston wineries and historic As summer arrives, the wonderful people offerings. Arrowtown with Lake Hayes, Frankton building these trails for our enjoyment Seven ‘Great Rides’ are open, including and Queenstown. There’s plenty of op- will have clear skies and warm days to n the Otago Central Rail Trail, which joined portunity to soak up the scenery and create more great cycling experiences. NZCT earlier this year. Remaining trails enjoy hospitality along the way. Women’s Cycling Festival October 18–22

Claire Pascoe the Street fashion show. cator species’. The Join us in Wellington Then there’s something for WCF will show A five day explosion of all Billets may be available; everyone: Women of Dirt we’re a healthy, di- contact Revolve Cycling things biking — the inaugu- (a six hour MTB event), a verse and vibrant [email protected]. ral Women’s Cycling Festival road cycling peaks challenge, species, rapidly (WCF) — brings together skills sessions, bike polo, a evolving and the stylish, the muddy and movie night, bike WOF, yoga having a jolly good time doing it. the fast in Wellington this for cyclists, MTB shuttling While the WCF will be held for the first time and a bike bambino’s crèche Labour Weekend. in Wellington, it is a national festival and for those with young riders hopes to attract riders from all corners of the Revolve Cycling, Frocks on in tow. If all that’s not reason country. Billets may be available; contact Re- Bikes, the Wellington MTB enough to visit the Coolest volve Cycling ([email protected]). And Club, en Velo and Cycle Capital in the World, come for 2013, watch out; WCF might come to a Aware Wellington are col- for world-class coffee at the town near you! laborating to host the festival, Frocknic on the last day Whether you’re a fashionista, a mud addict, a which promises to be the most fun you’ve had before the closing ceremony. tar-baby or a Courtenay Place cruiser, come with your bike(s) all year. The festival celebrates the renaissance of along and enjoy the camaraderie of the first The programme kicks off with an oppor- women on all types of bikes. Women are ever New Zealand Women’s Cycling Festival tunity to get glammed up for the Chic in often referred to as the cycling world’s ‘indi- on October 18 – 22. n Velo-City Global 2012 — Vancouver, Canada Marilyn Northcotte presentations were about commuter cycling cam- It was easy for me to REALLY want to at- paigns, workplace chal- tend this June conference about cycling, lenges, public bike sharing in the North American summer and the schemes, active journeys New Zealand winter. It was exciting to and initiatives to get return to my Canadian homeland, if not children riding to school. to my east coast home… Canada is still Gil Penalosa presented Canada! his ‘8 to 80’ concept of making cities user-friendly Velo-city Global is the world’s premier for everyone from 8 to 80 annual international cycling conference. years old. His ‘must haves’ Bixi bikes — Vancouver’s bike sharing scheme At this four day event, delegates from are lower speed limits around the world share ways to make cities and segregated cycle connect between planning and strategy on cycle-friendly. They come for inspiration, lanes. Gabriel Lagos from Mexico described the one hand, and what’s actually happening celebration, and to hear what’s going on in private sector housing developments built on the other. one another’s back-yards. The conference around connectivity and active journeys, The conference ran well and was great for affirms the power of cycling in society, and with no cars. networking. Food, proximity to the city and shows successes that we can apply in our The low point for me was lack of gender transportation were excellent. Vancouver is own communities. This year, it highlighted equity among keynote speakers (few a fabulous host city, with admirable urban cycling’s impact on quality of life while en- women) and in presentation messages. This cycle lanes and an extensive recreation hancing economies. The conference offered was despite much dialogue about safe cy- network. strategy, policy, and research to increase cling for women and children, who should city cycling and facilities. Infrastructure was I’m keen to attend another Velo-City con- have been asked to contribute. Others also a feature — if you build it they will come! ference (Vienna 2013, Adelaide 2014). The voiced concern about the paternalistic at- Cities like Sydney, Portland, and Vancouver exposure to and experience of issues from all titude that prevailed. The conference missed itself, have made big gains. over the world is invaluable. Perhaps I’ll see an opportunity to address women and their more women speakers, and more ideas and Infrastructure development can be glacial, contributions to cycling. In the midst of a experiences from a woman’s perspective! so it was good to hear about programmes women’s cycling revolution (which seems to I thank CAN for its support. n that ‘get on with what you’ve got’. Other be happening off the radar), this was a dis-

As the cycling NSO, our task offer more benefits and Bike NZ news is to develop pathways to encourage more people to help cyclists, coaches and of- join. With more members Richard Leggat ficials achieve to the level of we’ll achieve more in- BikeNZ is a national sporting organi- their ability and endeavour. fluence and increase the sation (NSO) with a vision of New We’re producing pro- chances of bringing about grammes for each category culture change. Zealand being a nation embracing cy- and building a network of cling. Unlike other sports, ours is also To succeed we must be regional coordinators to financially sound; as with a form of transport, recreation and deliver the programmes most sports this is a chal- tourism. We’re work- through community groups. lenge. High Performance ing hard along with a culture change We support our member Sport NZ funds our high many other cycling organisations in running performance programme, their sport, be it road, organisations toward that will see more but a lack of ongoing track, BMX or MTB. BikeNZ coaching and a culture change that people cycling officials coordinator Kyle funding limits our devel- We also partner advocacy opment work. We need will see more people Rika offers advice to more often groups who have expertise schoolboy Thomas Webb more commercial partners cycling more often. in areas such as infra- at a Learn to Ride course in and members so we can de- Children’s cycling numbers have been structure and road design. Auckland. ©2012 Steve King velop and deliver a full range declining, so they’re an area of focus In conjunction with CAN and of programmes and make for us. Our Learn to Ride programmes NZTA, we’ve completed a programme our network truly national. provide skills, confidence and fun so of cycle instructor courses, bus/truck The next major development will be a children want to ride more. We also need and bike workshops, and a Share the move in late 2013 to the new Cycling role models to inspire children and their Road pilot to improve road user atti- Centre of Excellence in Cambridge. Seed- parents to cycle. Our high performance tudes. BikeNZ and CAN combined their funded by government, the Centre will programme helps by producing medal- strengths to deliver a good outcome for house all our staff—and a state of the art winning, inspiring athletes; the success of NZTA and cyclists. Thanks to this, more velodrome. Centralising our team in a Britain’s elite cyclists has massively lifted joint projects are likely. ‘home of cycling’ will bring major ben- its cycling numbers. BikeNZ is developing a simpler, more ef- efits to all aspects of our organisation. n fective membership structure which will

6 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 7 New Zealand Auckland Grafton Gully Cycleway Max Robitzsch The Grafton Gully cycleway was mooted years ago to connect the through Max Robitzsch is Spaghetti Junction to the Auckland Funding for re- in one or two years, mains constrained. CAA has achieved several years ahead the Infrastructure CBD. The present cycleway stops at a most of our recent successes by ad- of the completion of Liaison person for bridge at the edge of the CBD, where vocating facilities that are bundled the Waterview mo- CAA. cyclists must join heavy traffic to get with urban renewal or other transport torway tunnel. further, which discourages many nov- projects. But the Grafton Gully Cycleway Cycle counters at nine locations now ice cyclists. is a rare ‘pure cycle funding’ project, and show trends as they develop; July saw an we are very pleased to see it proceed. increase of 12.8% cyclists riding past the After upgrading the Northwestern counters compared with the same month Cycleway in Kingsland in 2010, NZTA in 2011. Auckland cycling is growing proposed to continue the off-road Auckland cycling cycleway down Grafton Gully to the strongly. university. I represented Cycle Action infrastructure snippets Auckland (CAA) in several design work- Max Robitzsch shops before the project ran out of steam Christchurch through lack of funding. Waterfront Auckland has approved $6 million for a walkway and cycleway However, late last year Barbara Cuthbert along the western CBD waterfront. School bike track opens in and I brought NZTA in contact with The Waterfront Boulevard will link the Council teams working on future plans harbour bridge area with the new Wy- Christchurch for the city centre and waterfront. nyard Quarter by 2014, making Barbara is our CAA chair- David Hawke the harbour an even better person and a skilled planner We re-envisioned the recreational space for cyclists. Kendal School had its new bike track who can charm concessions project as a link It will also be a good commuter opened by the local MP (Hon. Gerry even out of anti-cycling route for novice cyclists to reach Brownlee) one sunny Saturday at the folks — but Council was quite between the two harbour-side offices. When the receptive to our proposals. busiest cycleways in end of March, with the help of 35 ea- walkway / cycleway across the We re-envisioned the project Auckland ger young cyclists and junior moun- harbour bridge is built, the Wa- as a link between the two terfront Boulevard will be a key tain bike champion Anton Cooper. busiest cycleways in Auckland — the link to the city from the North Shore. Northwestern Cycleway and Tamaki Learn-to-ride programmes are great; but Drive. In early 2012, we produced a Tamaki Drive (Auckland’s busiest cycle there’s nothing like an off-road track to sketch plan promoting ‘Everything meets route with over 1,500 cyclists a day) has build confidence and competence in a at the Waterfront’. received numerous safety upgrades, young cyclist. mostly based on a safety audit after the The new cycleway will close a key gap in David Hawke from CAN talked with 2010 Jane Bishop fatality. The causes of the Regional Cycle Network, allowing Keith Turner, Kendal School Principal Jane’s death remain in dispute after a cor- both cross-region rides and local trips. and former Chairperson of Spokes Can- oner’s hearing, but likelihood of further Riders will also get vistas down the gully, terbury, about building the track. tragedies has been reduced. Continues p8 and of Grafton Bridge soaring overhead. More safety works are Some months ago, about $6 million were planned. approved for the NZTA cycleway (at a BCR of 4) and Auckland Transport also Planning is proceeding for agreed to build the last missing link from the Waterview Cycleway, the end of the NZTA works along Beach a rare non-car improvement Road to the Quay Street / Tamaki Drive related to massive motorway cycleway. investment here. Funding is approved as part of the NZTA’s team is currently preparing motorway works, the route is the design for a late 2012 construction selected and resource consent start, and dealing with issues like how will soon be sought. The cy- to smooth out the gradients, and cross cleway should be ready for use several busy streets and the motorway.

6 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 7 New Zealand news con- Temporary Removal of cycle lanes to reduce traffic congestion released Christchurch Central Recovery Plan. tinues Main North Rd, departing Cranford St, 1 This directs CCC to change dh: How long did the project southbound (approx 100m) its District Plan to meet the take? objectives of the Recovery kt: Three years from when our Plan, which has many Board of Trustees approved it. Straven Rd, between initiatives encouraging to Fendalton Rd and dh: Has anyone else done it? Weka St, southbound Fitzgerald Ave, between Kilmore St cycling. 4 (appprox 260m) and hayward Tce, southbound kt: Yes, St Mary’s School 6 (approx 350m) CCC has also released a to- 5 in Hastings. Paul McArdle’s Clarence St, between Riccarton tally separate Christchurch 2 role there was a huge encour- Rd and Dilworth St, Transport Plan 2012–2042 Curletts Rd, between Blenheim and southbound (approx 220m) agement to us. Main South Rds, both directions which it drew up in igno- (approx 800m) dh: What was your vision, aside 3 Ferry Rd, departing rance of the Christchurch Palinarus Rd, eastbound Central Recovery Plan, al- from the obvious one of the (approx 100m) value of a track? though both were made si- multaneously and released kt: We believe that no child within days of each other! should miss out, so the school must Cycling and renewal of The Transport Plan provides strongly provide bikes and storage. Christchurch for cycling, but only after road improve- dh: Did you build the track on the cheap? ments are done. This is old-fashioned kt: No; we were thorough and careful. Simon Kingham thinking, and a problem of prioritisation. Engineer and bike track designer John Christchurch will look very different in If we shift from motor vehicles to bicycles Armowicz provided the specification, the future. 70% of the city centre is to be we don’t need vast spending on new design and cost estimates, and supervised demolished, 15,000–20,000 residential roads; we need to invest in alternatives to the project. properties are to be rebuilt, over 100,000 the motor vehicle. dh: What about fund-raising? properties are to be repaired and 45% So what’s happening on the ground? of the roads (895 km) need rebuilding. kt: We began in 2010 and eventually Early signs are not promising. However, we have a unique opportunity raised over $45,000. ✦✦ Cycle lanes removed soon after Feb- to build a city resilient to climate change ruary 22 to accommodate more cars dh: That’s a lot! Who came on board? and peak oil. Furthermore, we can fight have mostly not been restored; kt: Christchurch City Council (via the the obesity epidemic by making an ✦ local Community Board), Bishopdale- ‘active’ city where people want to cycle. ✦ roads are being repaired with little or no provision for cycling; Burnside Rotary Club, Christchurch Recent research† identified perceived ✦✦recent local plan consultation docu- North Lions Club, Christchurch City danger as the ments for Selwyn St. and Linwood Breakfast Lions Club, the Transpower main barrier Village include little provision for Community Care Fund and the Ground to cycling in cyclists; Effect Slush Fund. Christchurch. great plans and ideas, ✦ dh: Any hitches? People want an ✦it’s unclear clear how the Recovery Plan and the Christchurch Transport kt: Yes, the February 2011 earthquake; environment but how to pay for Plan relate to each other; but fortunately City Care Ltd’s Landscape where they them? ✦ Division had spare capacity at the critical feel safe, with ✦there’s no indication of crucial links time. cycling routes from central city to suburbs. separated from Finally, how do we pay? The key doc- dh: Other than landscaping, what had to traffic. happen? ument — the government’s Policy However, it’s not simple! The City Coun- Statement for Land Transport Funding kt: Holes had to be dug, challenge cil’s (CCC) six week ‘Share an Idea’ pro- (GPS 2012/13-21/22) — offers little sections built, bike storage arranged, gramme generated 106,000 ideas, many encouragement, budgeting billions of electricity laid on, alarm systems built favouring a cycling city. CCC turned dollars for ‘Roads of National Signifi- and so on. We used lots of volunteer and these into a Draft Central City Plan on cance’ (RONs) and virtually nothing for subcontractor work as well as the main which it consulted before passing it to the cycling. The Christchurch Transport Plan contractor. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Au- honestly states, ‘this means the funding dh: And what about the bikes? thority (CERA) for more consultation. available for public transport, cycling and kt: Paul Dahl of BikeNZ and Craig The plan then went to Minister for Earth- walking networks as outlined in this Plan Shakespeare of Sheppard Industries sup- quake Recovery Gerry Brownlee, who will be heavily constrained for much of plied 45 beautiful red bikes and a helmet handed it to the Christchurch Central the early recovery period’. This is an un- Simon Kingham is for every learner. Paul Cooper and Susan Development Unit (CCDU), a branch of derstatement. Professor of Geog- and Lennie Fortune assembled the bikes. CERA. CERA entrusted it to consultants to Bottom line: great raphy and Director of develop into the more detailed, recently plans and ideas, dh: Could other schools build their own the GeoHealth Labo- †Kingham S, Koorey G and Taylor K, but no evidence tracks? ratory University of 2011, Assessment of the type of cycle of how to pay for Canterbury — Te kt: Certainly, and we’re More: infrastructure required to attract new them. n Whare Wananga O happy to support them! bikeon.co.nz cyclists. NZTA Research Report 449. Waitaha

8 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. days getting from A to This is just a guide to get started, so don’t Cycle touring: getting started B or a two week epic. think you’ve got to take everything sug- Some of my trips are gested. Every trip is different. Is it back- Stephen Wood written up in Chainlinks. country or on roads? Will there be shops, cafés, campgrounds, or hostels on the From my first trip, in a group of teenagers Summer is a great time to get out cycle way? Is there cell phone coverage? What’s tackling Banks Peninsula back roads with touring. Build up in stages, getting used the best and the worst weather you can 10-speeds and backpacks, I’ve developed to full day rides, then an overnight trip or expect? Are you travelling alone, or in a a love of cycle touring. Travelling under two before tackling a bigger trip. group where you can share gear? my own steam on back country routes, Here’s a checklist of things you might state highways and anything in between pack for tours of different lengths. The more remote the area is the more you is therapeutic. I love it, be it a couple of should tell friends where you’re going and what to do if they don’t hear from you, Length of trip Every ride Day rides Overnight trips longer trips and the more you should prepare for bad clothes shorts, top, extra warm thermal top more clothes weather and emergencies. shoes, gloves, top, rain jacket, or jersey (or 2) for wet & cold, helmet, light knee-warmers long-johns, warm casual clothes Build up to longer trips, with shorter jacket or longs? hat, gloves spare for off the bike, ones as shakedowns for yourself, your socks spare footwear bike and your gear. Get a feel for how the to carry gear backpack or handlebar bag add rear carrier add front pan- loaded bike handles. If full touring seems saddlebag or saddlebag and panniers niers as well? daunting, you can have an enjoyable tools pump, punc- tyre boot, spare spare bolts, chain spare spokes, holiday using hostels or hotels, or basing ture kit, tyre le- tube, adjust- oil, duct or elec- chain links, yourself somewhere for day rides. vers, multi-tool able spanner, trical tape cables, extra A great thing about a longer trip with or allen keys chain tool, tools camping gear is that you can adapt it spoke tool as you go. If the weather is bad or your food water food, more more food, stove, containers/ bags legs or bike aren’t working well, you can water, energy fuel, pot, spoon, for food, Frisbee, shorten days to suit. Know where you can food bowl, pocket wooden spoon free camp and where commercial camp​ knife grounds are. sleeping sleeping bag & Upgrade if liner, sleeping you need a dry mat, tent/bivvy place and hot extras a bike mirror is money, camera, first aid, toilet small radio, shower. On a a great thing cellphone, map paper, toiletries, water filter? cord, longer trip you for any road sunglasses, pack towel, torch, clothes pegs, might take a riding sun-block, bike lighter/matches compass? lights rest day. Enjoy! n Getting into cycle touring — our way David & Joan Hawke we realised that cheap carriers were a Tyres de- If a hill is too big, false economy. Enter $75 pannier racks, serve careful there’s no shame in walking Years ago people travelled near and far $185 panniers and a $115 handlebar bag. thought; we by bike, because it was the only option A key decision was to keep things simple use semi-slick apart from walking. Biking to work is with basic hard-tail MTBs and to travel Continental Top Contacts. easy: just get your bike out, get on and light with no front panniers. Many others Some people ride phenomenal distances, go. By comparison, cycle touring looks use this lightweight approach (see Ped- but we average 30–50 km per day for a http://www.groundeffect. complicated. There are many ways of alling Patagonia at typical 3–10 day trip with never more co.nz/UGnews/UGnews.pdf (2.4 mb)). getting into it and many ways of doing it. than 75 km on a single day. If a hill is too As confidence and experience increased, big, there’s no shame in walking. At first Here’s our journey. we upgraded components for more reli- we stayed in camping ground cabins, We started in 2004 with two $700 entry- ability. We added a women’s saddle to but now we use a tent and sleeping pads level mountain bikes. After a while, we Joan’s bike and replaced both steering for summer trips. For a gear list, see the were drawn to something more than stems (shorter and more upright for Joan; article above. Sunday rides on country roads around longer and flatter for David). Comfort As well as touring in Canterbury, we put Christchurch. Our first step, six years handgrips are worthwhile for both of our bikes on the train for trips on the ago, was to fit cheap $30 carriers and us. Consequences of failure on tour are West Coast or in Marlborough. Touring bungee our day packs to them. Apart extreme, so we upgraded our seat-posts is a wonderful, low cost way to see the from the cost of staying in a B & B, our to stronger ones that are easier to adjust. finer grain of the countryside. We en- first overnight 75 km round trip south Our bike shop built more robust wheels courage others to have go! n from Christchurch was wonderful, but for us after repeated spoke breakages.

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Alex Macmillan is a public Order your specially- What would it take? health doctor and senior lecturer in environmental health at the School of Pop- designed safety vest Commuter cycling in Auckland ulation Health, University of Auckland. This article sum- in CAN colours Alex MacMillan marises part of her doctoral research about commuting Stand out When adults in cities swap cars for bikes, they and public health, funded contribute to health, social and environmental by the HRC, the NZTA and in the midst of the worst weather, benefits. the MoH. busiest traffic, dullest motorists What policies will encourage this while minimising harm, especially in car- and gaudiest bunch of road cyclists. dependent New Zealand cities? My research aimed to answer this, to show the benefits and costs of realistic policies and to improve policy decisions by using a systems approach. $90 (members) I brought together a range of Auckland policy, community and health people $110 who identified obvious feedback loops (diagram) that + gst better returns than drive trends in bicycling. Understanding how these S M L big transport feedbacks work is vital to increase commuter cycling. At the moment, a strong central balancing loop is projects and most dominant. More people commuting by bike means more injuries and deaths — the greatest deterrent to health interventions cycling (B1). External factors such as fuel price in- crease commuter cycling temporarily, but then traffic and cycling injuries deter people. Low but oscillating cycling levels result. On the other hand, more people biking to work can drive demand for safer infrastructure, reinforcing bicycle commuting in a virtuous cycle (R1). As more people bike in everyday clothes and visible to drivers stuck in traffic, a ‘nor- mality’ loop creates a further shift towards cycling (R2). Higher cycling levels than Auckland sees can activate other feedbacks. At these levels, each new cyclist may Car-repelling message make cycling a bit safer on the back (R3). But a larger shift to Lightweight, wind proof, bikes might allow remaining mesh-back, vehicles to travel faster, in- creasing the risk to cyclists. High-visibility This unintended balancing Rear reflective stripe loop (B2) makes reallocating Full length YKK zip for rapid existing road space crucial. on-road deployment When we understand the Bike-friendly traffic calming Three rear pockets for tidy feedbacks in the system, storage of comestibles and it also becomes clear that paraphernalia (third arm not issues outside these feedbacks (such as weather, hills and the helmet law) are a included). distraction. They might affect bicycling numbers, but they’re not what we need Made in NZ to NZ sizing. to focus on if we want to change cycling decline into sustained growth. Continues p12

safety in numbers + – Transform yourself Normality of cycling R3 safety in numbers into a living advertisement normality in numbers + cyclist injuries for the advantages and pleasures + R2 cyclists B1 + + of everyday cycling. injury is a deterrant real and perceived risk of injury – +

R1 safety by design + investment in cycle-friendly can.org.nz/shop infrastructure – B2 – car commuters [email protected] average car speed Feedback loops speed kills – CAN to launch Workplace Bikeability project CAN committee and Patrick Morgan CAN is working with Massey University portfolio activities design students to develop a brand and CAN is developing a Workplace n Completed the NZTA-funded Safer marketing material. Bikeability programme to help New Cycling project and finalised the report See the Cycle-friendly Employers’ Guide to NZTA. Thanks to Graeme Lindup and Zealand businesses become more can.org.nz/library/cycle-friendly-employer- at Glen Koorey as well as project manager bike-friendly. guide n Jena Western (see article on next page). Workplace Bikeability products that n Working on ways of improving CAN’s encourage employees and employers to “Bikeability is a product CAN will be financial sustainability alongside its core cycle include: marketing to businesses to improve business of advocating at a national level. ✦✦ Gearing-Up, a 60 minute in-house the way in which they cater for n Beginning a membership drive (see seminar. cyclists, and is intended to improve both the lot of cyclists who bike to article on left and p4). ✦✦ Making the Move, a 90 minute on- n road workshop. work and CAN’s bottom line. Promoting Bikeability (see article on ✦✦ Becoming a Bike Friendly Employer, If you or your organisation are inter- left). a consultation and advice service for ested, please contact Patrick Morgan n Made a joint application with BikeNZ employers covering cycle parking, Bi- at [email protected].” for government funding (via the Road cycle User Groups, events, resources, David Hawke, CAN Acting Secretary Safety Trust) which has been declined, tools and fleet bikes. but with an invitation for further dia- logue. Lobbying is a numbers game: n Continue to seek additional funding opportunities. Increasing CAN’s membership n A Special General Meeting was held by teleconference (see below). Increasing our membership (both ployer (CPIT) and a café that I frequent n Planning the next CAN-Do for March individual Members and Supporting (Addington Coffee Co-op); both were or April 2013. (Because of the change Members) is important for two reasons. keen and eager, and are now Supporting to our financial year, there will be no Members. Obviously, more members means more CAN-Do this year.) n income; but more importantly, lobbying Renew you own membership! Contact a Committee member for more is a numbers game so that every member information about any of these items. counts. And, if you haven’t renewed your mem- bership, then do it now! If you are not a Something every member could do member, then go to can.org.nz/join — it’s Ask at least one other person or or- quite painless! ganisation to join. I approached my em- David Hawke, CAN Acting Secretary CAN Special General What would it take? continues off-road paths. This alone is not enough; Our simulation model compares the ef- we also need region-wide bike-friendly Meeting fects of policies. Actual and perceived traffic calming on local streets. A Special General Meeting was held safety is central; so we focus on the ef- by teleconference on 15 May 2012. fects of infrastructure investment, com- Together, these approaches will activate paring costs and benefits of the Regional virtuous feedbacks and help avoid neg- The purpose: Cycle Network, arterial separated bicycle ative consequences. They are extremely ✦✦ to examine the Annual Accounts lanes with intersection treatments, and cost-effective, with ten-fold pay-back — ✦✦ to consider a series of Rule local bike-friendly traffic calming. an order of magnitude better than Changes for CAN. returns from proposed big transport The Regional Cycle Network proposes projects and from most health interven- The result of the SGM was the more on-road painted lanes and off-road tions. Spending $3 billion on Auckland’s Annual Accounts were passed and shared paths. Our simulations suggest cycling infrastructure over the next 40 the Rule Changes approved. these may make cycling a little more at- years would likely save tens of billions tractive than no infrastructure at all, but Our thanks to those who took part. by 2050. also a little more dangerous — especially Minutes are available to CAN the way they are currently built. Any adult shift from cars to bikes has members at can.org.nz/candocument/ benefits that outweigh risks at a popu- special-general-meeting-15-may-2012- To achieve a significant shift to com- lation level; but this is hard to sell when minutes n muter cycling, Auckland needs a region- . the risk of injury is immediately felt by wide, approach. Physical segregation individuals. Achieving greater benefits (with intersection treatments) on arterial with less pain means making a more roads keeps cyclists visible to other ambitious and consistent demand for the road users while increasing safety and right infrastructure. n providing better personal security than

12 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 13 Safer Cycling programme completed

Jena Niquidet Western “CAN’s contribution to the Safer Cycling In late 2011, the New Zealand Transport project included Road User Workshops Agency (NZTA) asked CAN and BikeNZ for for bus and truck drivers, and the “Share the Road” campaign aimed at improving a joint project proposal. This resulted in Contact CAN the understanding between cyclists and our organisations collaborating to deliver drivers. :: Chair, Graeme Lindup three sub-projects for the Safer Cycling [email protected] Finalising the Report has been an im- Programme: portant exercise over the last month or :: Acting secretary, David Hawke , two, particularly involving Graeme Lindup [email protected] ✦✦ cycle instructor training ✦ (CAN Chair) and former CAN Committee :: Treasurer, Elaine Richardson, ✦ Road User Workshop (RUW) member Glen Koorey. The Committee is [email protected] ✦ ✦ ‘Share the Road’ campaign hugely grateful to both people, and to Jena :: National commitee members, Jane BikeNZ led the instructor training while Western who was employed to run the Dawson, Clare Simpson, Stephen Wood. CAN led the other two programmes. project. staff The half day RUW is ‘to bring professional CAN intends to keep marketing the Road drivers and cyclists together to increase User Workshops to transport companies, :: Project Manager, awareness and empathy for road safety as a way of improving mutual under- Patrick Morgan, [email protected] 04 210 4967 : 027 563 4733 issues that face cyclists in the city’. standing.” David Hawke, CAN Acting Secretary some CAN roles We’re still working to adapt the workshop format to the trucking industry. Al- The Good Bunch project engaged bunch :: Membership secretary, though we didn’t reach targets for truck/ cyclists who use Auckland’s Tamaki Drive, Adrian Croucher, [email protected] bike workshops (completing only two), we a key commuting and road race training :: Media contacts, refocused on building relationships within route that’s also a cycling black spot. Cyclist Glen Koorey, [email protected] the trucking industry. Thirteen workshops buy-in is growing, and the police, Auto- Patrick Morgan [email protected] with bus drivers were completed and op- mobile Association and transport industry :: , Communications coordinator portunities for more workshops are devel- are positive. Stephen Wood, [email protected] oping. We also have an interest in adapting :: , Road cycling leadership is vital, but indi- IT/Website coordinator the program for taxi drivers and driving Stephen Wood, [email protected] viduals are responsible. Peer networks en- instructors in high-risk areas. :: Email & DNS Server Admin, courage riders to train for and take on ride Thomas Schwarz, [email protected] The RUW programme helped us find new leader roles. :: e.CAN newsletter editor, ‘Share the Road’ messages and ways to We’d like to develop the ‘Good Bunch’ and [email protected] Adrian Croucher, change behaviour; and showed that personal extend it from Tamaki Drive to the wider :: Chainlinks editors, engagement, predictable cycling behaviour Auckland area and Waikato, a busy training Miriam Richardson & Claire Pascoe and courtesy are important. [email protected] area for cyclists. As summer approaches This parallels a pilot program developed and more cyclists are out training, we hope :: , Mailouts co-ordinator with Cycle Action Auckland and Auckland to use social media as well. n Ruth Lewis, [email protected] Transport. “Good Bunch” is about road :: Merchandise co-ordinator cycling etiquette: limiting bunch size, com- Bryce Lyall, [email protected] munication, courtesy and adherence to road More rules. A very visible group, road cyclists often leave a lasting impression on motorist. For the full list of CAN roles go to: can.org.nz/can-roles In survey’s motorists consistently named courtesy as having the greatest influence CAN DO For full contact details go to: can.org.nz/contact on their willingness to share the road with others. Therefore we hope that consistent courteous and safe on road behaviour will have a positive influence on motorist be- 2013 haviour. The next CAN Do will be in March or April 2013. Probably in Auckland.

Keep an eye on this web page so you can add it to your diary and book your travel early and cheap. can.org.nz/CANDO-2013 n

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12 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 13 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 15 Effective advocacy: influencing social Clare is a Spokes Canterbury Chairperson change — Part Two and CAN committee member local EECA and NZTA staff and with people working in related areas.

Seizing the moment Seizing moments has borne fruit, but not always immediately. We must keep building relationships and nurturing allies in the media. And we must ac- knowledge that we’re mere mortals, by being resilient and celebrating small victories. n Cycling with dolphins Dean Scanlen Spokes Core members out ‘Riding with Roger’ around the CBD I was recently cast in a musical play called The Thing about Men, a Clare Simpson council, earthquake authorities, com- comedy about a philandering exec- In the last issue I wrote about affect- munity boards and parliamentary elec- utive. Cycling to rehearsals keeps me ing social change by building good torates; and to identify relationships and fit and is a perfect warm-up for mu- lines of communication between them. working relationships, by seizing the sicals, which have lots of movement, costume changes, scrambling about moment and by acting when the mo- Business community ‘movers and shifting sets. ment arrives. and shakers’. One night while an If the Core Group of Spokes Canterbury I also mentioned our need to meet riding home were less than a decent bunch, they’d laugh business community ‘movers and shakers’. beside Whangarei exhilarating into their cycling gloves We’ve had luck here, thanks to our Harbour, I heard moonlit race at my idealism and na- Old hands at AGM guest speaker (Roger Sutton, swishing, blowing ivety. Old hands at ad- CERA) who dropped names. We and splashing with a pod of vocacy, they’re patient, advocacy, they’re contacted some of them and things sounds on the dolphins expect little and hope patient, expect little happened — not necessarily what calm, moonlit for small but mean- we envisaged, but useful. water. I stopped ingful victories. On the and hope for small We got to know the Canterbury and saw a ripple from a fast-moving other hand, I joined Business Leaders’ Group, who’d front disturbing the surface. A Spokes Canterbury ac- but meaningful never heard of us. However, their dolphin jumped and landed with a tually expecting things victories. spokesperson (Don Elder, CEO of loud splash; then another, and an- to happen! Solid Energy) is a cyclist and dis- other. Others breached the surface Since the last Chainlinks issue appeared, covered strong support for cycling to breathe. The pod was moving fast, Spokes has developed another strategic among his group. parallel to the shore and about 50 plan with SMART goals. Humbly, I ask metres out. Wondering where they myself not what our small forays into Media were heading, I pedalled hard and social intercourse have changed, but what We’ve been interviewed twice on CTV kept up at 25 to 30 kilometres per they’ve helped us to understand and how news, about the Ministry of Awesome’s hour. to capitalise on these insights. bike rack design competition and The About a kilometre from where I first Blueprint. The Christchurch Press ac- saw them is a wharf. I reached it first Keep doing what we’ve begun companied us on a Sutton-led bike tour and moved onto it in time to see a First, we must keep doing what we’ve of The Blueprint’s cycling potential, into score of dolphins zoom underneath, begun. We must keep meeting City the Red-Red Zone of Cathedral Square. then race out of sight towards an un- Council and Community Board rep- Writing submissions known destination. resentatives, because dialogue builds ‘Core business’ — writing submis- I was to have been part of the New working relationships. Although the sions — continues. Relating with influ- Zealand premiere of The Thing about Draft Transport Plan and Central ential people has helped. CCC staff in- Men, but unfortunately we never Christchurch ‘Blueprint’ have tempo- vited us to discuss the draft Christchurch performed it in public. Even so, I’m rarily diverted our attention, we must Transport Plan and to meet other grateful for the opportunity it af- stick with the plan. Talking helps us to stakeholders about it; they’ve also sought forded me to experience an exhila- learn who the influential people are and our individual expertise. The stakeholder rating moonlit race with a pod of dol- how they exercise influence. It helps us to meeting forged new relationships with phins. If I’d been in a car, I would not understand processes at work in the city have known they were there. n

2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 15 the only alternative to SH2. Submissions to Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Land Transport Plan resulted in pro- motion from ninth to second priority. NZTA is investigating an interim solution with flexible poles separating part of the shoulder from the expressway. Cyclists are concerned that this would create danger and delay a long term solution. Thanks to social media maven Isobel Cairns, CAW now has a twitter feed (@Cy- cleAwareWgtn) about the capital’s cycling issues. Tweets include traffic information, transport report releases and CAW meeting reminders. This winter, Wellington cy- clists have been brighter than iWay bridge, Hastings ever thanks to the ‘Society for the Regional the Promotion of Cycle Aware Hawkes Bay Cycle Aware Wellington Council’s cycle light testing Bicycling Etiquette’ update information (gw. update govt.nz/be-safe- be-seen/ Bernie Kelly Alastair Smith ). CAW CAW recently morphed into the ‘Society members also Dr. Amy Symonds of Napier made an im- for the Promotion of Bicycling Etiquette’ joined police and City Council staff for pressive presentation to the Hastings Dis- for the launch of the Friendly Cyclist in- the annual start-of-winter blitz on poorly trict Council (HCD) in June, about the ternet video series. Narrated by actor lit cyclists, handing out lights, reflectors hazards of cycling to work. A film, taken Stephen Fry, the videos follow Wellington and information. from her helmet camera as she crossed the cyclist Mrs Penny Farthing demonstrating CAW has convivial monthly meetings at Chesterhope Bridge, showed dangers that decorous and seemly ways to ride safely. 6 pm on the first Tuesday of each month, cyclists face every day even with double Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown at the Library Bar in Courtenay Place. yellow lines. Driver education still has a makes a cameo appearance in full mayoral caw.org.nz long way to go! The Friendly Cyclist showed dangers that regalia rather than her more normal cy- Hawke’s Bay councils cyclists face every day cling gear. Made by Little and NZTA are doing even with double yellow Fighter Films and funded much good work, lines by Wellington City including replacing Council, the website also flashing lights stolen features an examination from the narrow Tutaekuri bridge. Pro- for aspiring friendly cy- tracted negotiations and Jeremy Dun- clists. Although oriented ningham’s perseverance are at last pro- to Wellington, the videos regional groups regional ducing bike racks on buses. are excellent resources Our expanding Rotary / Iway pathway for any city. The website network now offers many off-road op- has attracted over 20,000 tions. HDC has just opened the $1.5 views from around the million Havelock North — Hastings world, including from cycleway and walkway, easing road the home of urban cy- congestion. The newly-completed Clive cling, Amsterdam. to Hastings track uses a combination of To view the videos (a surfaces, depending on the terrain. See tweed suit and a gin and www.iway.org.nz for a map. tonic will put you in the I’m delighted to be part of the BikeNZ right mood), summon learn to ride programme, which benefited thefriendlycyclist.co.nz/ to more than 1000 school kids around the your internet device. Bay in the last year. Mentoring by Bike Progress is slow on the NZ Regional Development Coordinator notorious Wellington Vicki Butterworth has helped me to gain to Petone ‘Gap’, where a Level One instructor qualification. an incomplete, narrow rubble-strewn path is

16 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 17 is completed we will have a much awaited Kapiti Cycling Inc update off-road cycle route linking Kapiti’s Join online Lynn Sleath coastal towns. 2. Our Mayor opened a lovely new or clip this form A Voice for Cyclists on the Kapiti Coast. wooden bridge at Otaki at Atkinson 1. KCI has made a submission to the Avenue. It will mean that there is a loop Join online at Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway Board for cyclists and walkers to access the www.can.org.nz/join of Inquiry with input from CAN’s Patrick beach area or do a round cycle trip. The OR post this form to us with your Morgan. We have cited what we see are structure was blessed by Maori elders cheque: the deficiencies in the project from a cy- and the ceremony was attended by about 60 people. cling viewpoint. Hopefully once the work Name

Contact the local group nearest you Address

Bike! Whangarei Cycle Aware Manawatu Palmerston North Paul Doherty, 09 436 0033 Christine Cheyne, [email protected] [email protected] can.org.nz/manawatu Phone Cycle Action Auckland Kapiti Cycling Email Barbara Cuthbert, Chair, 09 445 2223 Paraparaumu, Waikanae, Otaki [email protected] caa.org.nz Lynn Sleath, 04 905 2230 Cycle Action Waiheke [email protected] kapiticycling.org.nz Please send the e.CAN Tony King Turner, 09 372 7821 Mana Cycle Group email news monthly. [email protected] Robin Edgely, [email protected] Please send me information Cycle Action North Rodney can.org.nz/mana about ‘cycle safe’ insurance. Bevan Woodward, 09 425 1928 Cycle Aware Wellington [email protected] Alastair Smith, 04 463 5785 Occupation: Cycle Action Waikato Hamilton [email protected] caw.org.nz Peter Bos, 07 850 8835 Hutt Cycle Action How did you find out about CAN? [email protected] Tom Halliburton, 04 972 9138 Cycle Action Whakatane [email protected] can.org.nz/hutt Pip Wonacott, [email protected] We respect your privacy and will Tasman Bicycle Nelson Bays Nelson Rotorua Cycle Action not give your details to anyone not Anne FitzSimon, 03 539 0527, 021 1123 890 affiliated with CAN. Mark Dyer, 06 347 9482 [email protected] can.org.nz/nelson [email protected] Bicycle Lanes in Paradise Golden Bay Bike Taupo Victoria Davis, 03 525 9298 [email protected] biketaupo.org.nz [email protected] Annual membership fees Cycle Action Tauranga BikeWalk Marlborough Blenheim ✦✦ Unwaged $20 Phil Browne, 07 544 3123 Robin Dunn ✦ [email protected] ✦ Waged $35 [email protected] ✦✦ Family $40 Critical Mass Gisborne Bike West Coast (SI) ✦✦ Supporting organisations $85 Manu Caddie, 027 420 2957 can.org.nz/westcoast [email protected] can.org.nz/gisborne Spokes Canterbury Christchurch Cycle Aware Hawke’s Bay Napier -Hastings Membership fee $...... Clare Simpson Bernie Kelly, 06 870 0837 [email protected] spokes.org.nz Donation $...... [email protected] Total $...... Squeaky Wheel South Canterbury North Taranaki Cycling Advocates Make cheque payable to CAN New Plymouth Ron Paulin, 03 688 6408 [email protected] Graeme Lindup, 06 757 2062 can.org.nz/southcanterbury [email protected] ntca.org.nz CAN Spokes Dunedin Freepost 25424 Whanganui Bicycle User Group [email protected] PO BOX 25424 Hadi Gurton, 06 347 2494 can.org.nz/dunedin Welington [email protected]

16 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 17 3. Despite winter weather good progress 4. Marilyn Northcote and Patrick Morgan Supporting Organisations has been made by our Council on two ran a Cycle Skills Course in Waikanae new pathways in Paraparaumu. One will sponsored by Greater Wellington Re- Abley Transportation Consultants link Guildford Drive with Mazengarb gional Council. We trust that this will Addington Coffee Co-op Park providing a safe alternative route for lead to a pool of trainers for school stu- Adventure South Ltd school cyclists. The second runs north dents. beside the rail line from Waterstone Park kapiticycling.org.nz n Auckland Cycle Touring Association to Camelot sub-division, providing a link Avanti Plus Whangarei between the townships of Paraparaumu Bike Taupo and Waikanae. Black Seal Imports Canterbury District Health Board Winter family Christchurch City Council Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology biking Crank It Cycles Janet Miller Cycletech NZ “This is soo coooool!” yells Cycle Touring Company Ltd six-year-old Douglas, as Cycle Tour Operators NZ we zoom along. I look at Cycling Rotorua Douglas and can’t help but grin as we zoom along on Peter Clark our bikes in the winter sun- Ecoassist Sustainable Solutions shine on the newly opened our bike, but in the end Grandma chose Engineering Outcomes Hauraki Rail Trail. to walk him along the trail in his trailer. Environment Canterbury The trail is flat and easily wide enough One day we drove to Waikino and cycled Environment Waikato for two, so we chat when the pace settles along the Karangahake Gorge section Greater Wellington Regional Council down a bit. We don’t have to think of the track. This section of the track about cars because we are off-road. The Ground Effect meanders along the river through the only sounds are birds singing and cows bush, and we stopped from time to time Hamilton City Council mooing as we cycle along heading from to check out gold mining history boards Kapiti Coast District Council Kopu (south of Thames) along the way. We got to towards… well… wherever the 1100 m long rail tunnel Lincoln University we get to! and cycled it with only Marlborough District Council Zooming along on our Douglas and I ended up cy- the lights in the tunnel to Massey University cling about 14 km that day. bikes in the winter guide us. Out the other side we ate our sandwiches MWH NZ Ltd There were cool wooden sunshine on the newly bridges to ride across, bike in the sunshine and then Natural High gates to negotiate each time opened Hauraki Rail Trail retraced our steps back to New Plymouth District Council we reached a road and even the car. OCEAN a homemade cordial stand. For the other two days of The track was busy with riding we didn’t need to On Yer Bike groups of kids with their grandparents en- double back as Grandma would come Pacific Cycle Tours joying the school holidays. When we got and pick us up in the car once she’d fin- Pedaltours to Hikutaia we found a cafe so Douglas ished walking with Charlie. We really en- and I elected to stay and eat icecreams joyed the flexibility of being able to stop Rotorua Association of Triathletes while Dad went for a quick burn on the when we wanted to or go on further if Rotorua District Council trail towards Paeroa. we wanted. On the last day of cycling we Rotorua MTB Club Each morning we tackled a different bit set out from Te Aroha aiming for Paeroa, of the track. We started the day with a distant 21 km away. More farmland Tasman District Council some Tour de France action on TV and and more zooming, but after a couple Timaru District Council then made sure two-year-old Charlie of kilometres it became apparent that ViaStrada had a good run around so that he would Douglas just wasn’t in the zone. With fre- sleep in his bike trailer when we hit the quent lolly stops we managed 10 km then Waimakariri District Council trail. The trail was mostly gravel, smooth texted for a pick up. Once Douglas was enough for Charlie to sleep soundly with in the car and headed to a playground a couple of jerseys stuffed in to act as a in Paeroa, Dad and I sped off down the pillow. We had planned for one of us to last 10 kms of trail through farmland to n cycle along with the trailer attached to Paeroa.

18 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 2012 Chainlinks 3, October. 19 On the web

The FLIZ pedal-less bike concept http://fliz-concept.blogspot.ca (in German)

Te Rewa Rewa bridge, Taranaki New guidebook shows the way Patrick Morgan Taranaki’s Forgotten Trisled Flatbed truck bike Classic New Zealand Cycle Trails, by World A high-bulk load carrier. Jonathan, Simon and Paul Kennett http://www.trisled.com.au/flatbed-truck.asp Highway and The best way to explore New Zealand is Westland’s by bike, engaging with the environment, Pioneer meeting people, getting fit and eating Heritage what we want. So how do we figure out Trail. Great where to ride? Avoiding busy roads has Rides and been a problem for decades, causing a Heartland Rides range from one to six decline in cycle touring. Yet incredibly it days, and most have accommodation so is now almost solved, thanks to the New you don’t need to lug camping gear. Zealand Cycle Trail. Until recently, New Zealand sadly lacked Since 2009, more than $100 million has multi-day rides that anyone could do been spent transforming cycling in New regardless of fitness or type of bike. Often Zealand. Half came from the people would ride the Otago Rail The Fietshangar government, $30 million from a compendium of Trail and then look to Europe for The Fietshangar (bike hangar) fits well local government and DOC, their next cycling holiday; but New Zealand’s best inside one car parking space and is de- and $20 million from trusts that’s no longer the case. signed to hold 5 bicycles, protecting them and other organisations. The cycling holidays Cyclists looking for a longer from theft and damage. result is the subject of the holiday will like the Connector http://tinyurl.com/fietshangar Kennett Brothers’ new book. Rides which complete the network, Classic New Zealand Cycle Trails de- enabling you to cycle throughout the scribes a network of rides stretching country. Most take only an hour or two, from Cape Reinga to Bluff and from linking Great Rides to nearby towns or Taranaki across to East Cape. The book’s Heartland Rides. If they are not safe even foundation is the New Zealand Cycle for an experienced cyclist, the authors Trail, which consists of 20 Great Rides suggest public transport links. connected by quiet back country roads. No matter how much cycling you’ve And the Kennetts haven’t stopped there; done, the possibilities in Classic New they’ve added a few of their favourites, Zealand Cycle Trails will surprise and making a compendium of New Zealand’s excite you. It certainly whetted my ap- best cycling holidays. petite. n Build Your Own DIY Electric Bike and The Great Rides are mostly off-road, Extend Your Range ranging from easy paths (Hawke’s Bay Published by The Kennett Brothers. Souping up your old steel frame to add a Trails, Otago Rail Trail) to wilderness $29.90, 250 pages, available from book little extra speed and power in the form trails (Mountains to the Sea, Old Ghost and bike shops, and from kennett.co.nz, of an eBike isn’t as difficult as you might Road). As well, the book describes reviewed by Patrick Morgan think. 24 Heartland Rides with classics like http://tinyurl.com/diy-electric-bike n

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