
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
The hour before dawn carries a stillness like no other part of the day. Something fresh is happening. A new day is beginning. And its sights, scents and sounds spill gently into this quietness. Today, I was pedalling my bike pre-dawn to fit in around work commitments. Stepping outside into the cool air, my sleepy head soon woke. ‘There’s the saucepan’ I said pointing at the three stars that form Orion’s belt. They sparkled and blinked as the breaking… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment Tags: Active Travel, Beach, Bike commuters, bike-riders, Campervan, Coral Sea, Currumbin, Cyclists, Dawn, Exhilarating, Facebook, Gold Coast, Holidays, Queensland, Salt air, Silence, Stars, Surfing, Winter
This is another guest post from Jen Cooper. In her previous post, Big Bikes Little Bikes, it was decision time. Now let’s see how these Bromptons ride. Here is the second of Jen’s bicycle stories… We had been searching for a solution to taking bikes on our camping and kayaking trips, and being able to carry and store them easily. After research done at intervals over a period of eighteen months, we found and purchased Brompton bikes. Bromptons… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Adapting, Bike commuters, bike-riders, Brompton, Camping, Car, Chic, Decisions, Folding Bikes, Health, Hervey Bay, Holidays, Hybrid, innovation, inspiration, interesting people, lifestyle change, Making choices, Speed, Well-being
This is a guest post written by Jen Cooper. I met Jen a few years ago on a writing course at the Queensland Writers Centre and since then we’ve shared many good conversations about writing as well as bicycles. This is the first of two bicycle stories from Jen… For years we had tried to find a solution to the problem of how to carry all our toys when we went travelling. We had the van (a fold-down camper),… Read More
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons