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The Minties are in town again. Not the sweet, mint-flavoured lollies that plucked amalgam fillings from innocent teeth in the seventies. I mean the good people from the Royal Australian Mint who have brought their mobile coin press to the Gold Coast. A couple of weeks ago, I dropped my plans for the afternoon, jumped on my Brompton folding bike and headed north to Broadbeach. The latest Mint News had landed in… Read More

Summer has landed with heat and sunshine, holidays and… skatebowls? What happens when two women riding mountain bikes home from the beach find the usually-crowded skatebowl empty? This is what it looks like… Be sure to watch to the end (and with the sound on) 🙂 [Music: Roll Your Own / Artist: Tripswitch]  

Four days had passed since I’d ridden a bicycle and my feet were getting tired from walking everywhere. Adelaide City is good for walking. The terrain is flat, a feature that also makes it good for cycling. When I first arrived, I hired the Adelaide Free Bikes but, with plans to explore the city’s impressive cycleways, I wanted to ride something that I felt more comfortable on. Hire bikes come in all shapes and… Read More